Longtime Rutgers faculty member Tracy Budd posted on social media she hoped someone else would take a shot at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In an email sent Tuesday afternoon, the school told protesters that its has tried “in good faith” to meet their demands. However, they must decamp as the school prepares for "academic-year end events."
Princeton University has “backpedaled” on its initial discussions and instead pointed to existing institutional processes the representatives “disregards the urgency of the genocide in Gaza," according to the protesters.
Rutgers University president Jonathan Holloway is getting questions from both Trenton and Washington legislators about the agreement to end a pro-Palestinian encampment and now faces a lawsuit.
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.