Colleges try to manage Gaza war protests without stifling free speech
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As college students head back to campus for the new academic year, universities are |
| 0:05.5 | rolling out new rules as they prepare for more protests over the Israel-Hamass War. |
| 0:10.7 | In many cases, there's a wide range of new restrictions. |
| 0:14.0 | Jeffrey Brown has our look at how college leaders and some students are navigating this moment. |
| 0:20.0 | At Columbia University in New York, one flashpoint for last spring's campus |
| 0:27.4 | turmoil, long lines formed outside the gates as classes began. Students and staff presented a campus ID to enter, |
| 0:35.0 | yes had to register ahead of time, |
| 0:38.0 | and access was limited to a handful of entry points. |
| 0:41.0 | Senior Isabella Ramirez is editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator. |
| 0:46.7 | It's a really interesting atmosphere to sort of enter campus with gates-locked, you know, sort of |
| 0:51.5 | screenings at every single entry point that you're entering. |
| 0:54.4 | Amid protest last spring, at least 200 people were arrested or detained here. |
| 0:59.4 | And in August, President Manus Chafique resigned following months of pressure and criticism from Congress |
| 1:05.9 | as well as Jewish and pro-Palestinian student groups and faculty. |
| 1:10.5 | For now, Interim President Dr. Katrina Armstrong seeking to calm the waters and |
| 1:15.3 | rebuild trust has been visible on campus meeting with different constituent groups. |
| 1:20.0 | She has the ability to do something very different and possibly very new in terms of how she decides to handle this who she decides to see input from how she balances the many many voices that are kind of demanding different things from her. |
| 1:32.7 | I'm curious how, you know, |
| 1:35.1 | protesters will receive Armstrong. |
| 1:37.2 | It's a dynamic at play around the country |
| 1:39.8 | as administrators seek to avoid a repeat of the spring when more than 3,000 people were |
| 1:44.9 | arrested or detained on campuses including students and protesters not |
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