I'm Christopher Leighton and this is open source sampling the uproar rising from

American campuses. It's a full-blown leaderless movement by now in an established

American tradition but still contested, still finding its way,

looking for its pattern.

Columbia and USC have canceled graduation ceremonies.

Many more schools are threatening suspensions or worse if students don't remove their encampments.

In our neighborhood, Harvard Yard is encamped closed to people without Harvard ID, Harvard students are catch-can.

We've been out here for two weeks.

It's been great so far, despite intense and scary tactics being used by members of the administration

to intimidate students.

What do you think they're afraid of?

I think they're afraid of the power of a student movement. They're afraid of a change in the tide of both student opinion and public opinion. I think they're afraid of our city, our students, our community, our country, and the world, understanding that these institutions

that are kind of upheld as leaders in the world.

Even such universities can be complicit in things like genocide, apartheid, occupation,

war crimes that are happening in Palestine and elsewhere.

I'm not afraid of what they are going to do to me.

I am afraid of what I will be complicit in if I remain silent.

MIT, by contrast, is wide open, noisy with speech-making and still cheerful, around 10-foot

sign proclaiming Jews for Gaza.

We are dropping in conversation.

We are dropping in conversationally

on faculty players we know on either side of the country

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