Columbia University announced Monday it will cancel its university-wide graduation ceremony, just days after pro-Palestinian protests roiled dozens of commencement ceremonies this weekend.
At the University of Michigan on Saturday, protestors carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans disrupted the graduation.
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Fifty graduates held signs and chanted, “Disclose, divest! We will not stop, we will not rest,” during the ceremony.Â
“I can’t even hear what’s going on with the graduation with this going,” graduate Jacob Johnson said. “A lot of these people, their senior year of high school was during COVID, so they already had that ruined and then now you have this going on too. It’s like give these people a break.”
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The university, which has allowed protesters to set up an encampment on campus, anticipated a demonstration and had a plan to minimize disruption. There were no clashes between protestors and graduation attendees.Â
Meanwhile, police continue to clear other campuses.
At the Art University of Chicago, 68 people were arrested as a S.W.A.T team removed protestors trying to set up an encampment.
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