Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber told pro-Palestinian protesters the site of their sit-in and hunger strike is needed for Class Day preparations.
Princeton University has “backpedaled” on its initial discussions and instead pointed to existing institutional processes the representatives “disregards the urgency of the genocide in Gaza," according to the protesters.
Princeton High School students will be held accountable under the school's code of conduct for chanting anti-Semitic phrases as they left the school to join an encampment at Princeton University.
The Newark Solidarity Coalition at the Rutgers-Newark campus set up an encampment on May 1 with similar demands about divestment as Rutgers-New Brunswick and Princeton University protesters.
Protesters said the university was “actively endangering students” by not allowing tents to be erected in order to shelter against the weather in the Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
The start of final exams at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus were postponed Thursday morning because of a rally intended to cancel all the finals.
Nearly 300 arrests were made at Columbia University and City College of New York while pro-Palestinian protests at Princeton University and Rutgers University remain peaceful.
Five undergraduates, six graduate students, one postdoctoral researcher and one person not affiliated with Princeton University entered Clio Hall, home of the university’s graduate school and hung flags from several windows.