The Newark Solidarity Coalition at the Rutgers-Newark campus set up an encampment on May 1 with similar demands about divestment as Rutgers-New Brunswick and Princeton University protesters.
Princeton University protesters said on their social media the university was “actively endangering students” by not allowing tents to be erected in order to shelter against the weather in the Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
The start of final exams at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus were postponed Thursday morning because of a rally intended to cancel all the finals.
Nearly 300 arrests were made at Columbia University and City College of New York while pro-Palestinian protests at Princeton University and Rutgers University remain peaceful.
Five undergraduates, six graduate students, one postdoctoral researcher and one person not affiliated with Princeton University entered Clio Hall, home of the university’s graduate school and hung flags from several windows.
After an encampment was dispersed Thursday morning the protesters returned without their tents for a sit-in at the same Princeton University location and have remained ever since.
Less than 100 individuals erected a half dozen tents on Princeton University's McCosh Courtyard Thursday morning but dispersed after two graduate students were arrested.