Pro-Palestinian protests showed no signs of letting up today across many college and university campuses.

If anything, encampments and protests have actually been growing.

Universities handled their respective situations differently, but several schools are drawing a tougher line.

Columbia University said it started suspending some students who stayed in encampments after a deadline.

State troopers were called in at the University of Texas at Austin,

and nearly 300 people were arrested at other schools

over the weekend. Tensions again at a boiling point today with state troopers arresting students at the

University of Texas at Austin after an encampment went up.

Let them go, let them go, let them go.

Meantime at Columbia University, students refuse to leave their encampment

that has been up for nearly two weeks.

We will not be moved by this intimidation tactics.

You can see outside you now that the students are mobilised.

There's hundreds of them here today.

This morning, Columbia University President Manouche Schaffique delivered a deadline to students.

Either voluntarily end the encampment or face suspension.

Shefik said Columbia was in danger of violating Title VI civil rights laws.

We must take into account the rights of all members of our community,

Shafik said in the statement,

the encampment has created an unwelcoming environment

for many of our Jewish students and faculty.

External actors have contributed to creating

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