Columbia University said today it's cancelling its main commencement

ceremony and is instead going to hold smaller ceremonies for individual

schools, the School of Social Work, the Journalism School, the Law School, etc.

And it came after a lot of pressure due to some the Law School, School, et cetera.

And it came after a lot of pressure

due to some of the encampments on the campus

a question about how much they could ensure peace.

Students at Columbia and on other campuses

have been demanding their universities divest from Israel.

And today on today explained we're going to tell you what that demand means and how it's been

done before.

Now some colleges are betting that when classes end the protests will end and they might.

As for the war Israel today warned a hundred thousand civilians in ruffa to get out ahead of a planned

invasion even as the AP reported that Hamas has accepted a proposal for a ceasefire,

we're going to continue to follow all of this as it develops. But coming up, the push to divest.

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