Over the past several days, protesters have been gathering on college campuses across the country.

Over the past several days, protesters have been gathering on college campuses across the country,

expressing support for civilians in Gaza.

Students setting up encampments from University of North Carolina to MIT.

Harvard's yard closed until Friday.

There were scuffles at the University of Texas.

Many of them have been camping out at Yale

for days occupying Monnake Plaza.

Our colleague Melissa Korn has been following the situation.

These are politically active, motivated, engaged students. You're seeing students from a range of different

advocacy backgrounds joining together under this umbrella of pro-Palestinian

protests and calling for a ceasefire.

College campuses are always a hotbed for protests.

How would you say that these protests

compare to things we've seen on college campuses in the past.

So the most direct comparison I think people are making is to what we saw in 1968

with anti-war protests in terms of the level of

hostility and anger and kind of combustible nature of these right you just don't know where it's going to turn next or what might happen next.

The protests have intensified since last week after more than a hundred students were arrested at Columbia University in New York, prompting students at other institutions to join in.

There is the sense that we are going to protest and set up encampments in solidarity with our brethren at Columbia.

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I'm Ryan Knutzen.

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