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Columbia, USC Begin Protest-Altered Graduations on May 10 Amid Campus Turmoil by John Haughey – US Politics News

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Despite demonstrations and likely attempts to disrupt, universities and colleges across the United States will stage another round of commencement exercises this weekend, including on campuses roiling in nearby protests.
Pro-Palestinian groups demanding an end to the war in Gaza and divestment from Israel have embroiled at least 80 universities and colleges across more than 30 states in the largest groundswell of campus unrest since the 1980s anti-apartheid and 1960s and 1970s Vietnam War protests.
As of May 9, more than 2,700 people have been arrested on more than 63 university and college campuses in at least 22 states since the April 18 arrests of 108 Columbia University students on their Morningside campus in Manhattan, New York City, according to tallies by the Associated Press and reporters for The Epoch Times….

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