BREAKING NEWS STUDENTS ARE NOW FACING EVICTION, FOOD INSECURITY, DEGREE WITHOLDING, AND DEPORTATION HARVARD HAS BEGUN SUSPENSIONS
May 12, 2024Student protesters camping in Harvard Yard in an effort to urge the school to divest from Israel began receiving suspension letters from the university Friday as a coalition of faculty expressed disappointment, calling the school’s response “an unprecedented escalation.”
As of Friday afternoon, it was unclear how many students were suspended. Elizabeth Ross, a fifth year doctoral student, was among those who received a letter earlier in the day. She expressed criticism of the school’s interim president Alan Garber.
“This morning, I was placed on involuntary leave, but anything that interim president Garber has done is a reflection of his failure, not mine and not ours,” Ross said, referring to the student coalition Harvard Out of Occupy Palestine.
Ross said the involuntary leave means she is banned from attending classes, taking exams, and being on the yard where a student encampment has stood for the past several weeks. Undergraduates, she added, must also move out of campus housing.
Hours after that warning, several hundred students and allied supporters marched from the campus to Garber’s private residence and rallied there, urging the president to negotiate with students amid their encampment.
This is Harvard, the world’s “GREATEST GLOBAL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTION” caving into the Israeli lobby and the demands they put forward.
Do NOT STOP, oh students!! We must keep fighting NO MATTER the consequences!
@GBH @harvxrdpsc
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