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Texas A&M To Host 22nd Annual Texas Science Olympiad

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Nearly 1,000 Texas middle and high school students will put their science and engineering knowledge to the test this weekend in Aggieland as they battle for Lone Star State bragging rights in the 2024 Texas Science Olympiad .

For the 22nd consecutive year, Texas A&M will play host to the blockbuster finale that features 60 teams from across the state — 30 in the middle school division and 30 in the high school division — in the ultimate battle of science- and engineering-related academic and, at times, even athletic wits.

Friday’s build/design-themed events, which are free and open to the public, will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and be held at the Brazos County Expo Complex in Bryan. Saturday’s laboratory and knowledge-based competitions are restricted to participants only and will take place on the Texas A&M campus. All events will conclude with a Saturday evening awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in Texas A&M’s Rudder Auditorium.

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The rigorous academic contest, which is part of a broader national competition that aims to improve the quality of science education in schools, covers a variety of science, engineering and technology topics. Individually and collectively, each challenge is designed to test students’ knowledge of a given subject through their combined use of problem-solving skills and teamwork.

Each competing school is permitted one team of 15 students who will compete in Division B (grades 6-9) or Division C (grades 9-12). During the course of the two-day competition, students will display their skills in a variety of ways, including constructing longest-flying gliders, tallest towers and the most efficient boom and battery-powered cars, launching indoor bottle rockets, detecting diseases and discerning potions and poisons.

In addition to local coordinators from across the Brazos Valley, nearly 200 Texas A&M and Blinn College faculty, staff and students will be on hand to set up and judge the competition’s 56 events . As in previous years, organizers and judges from NASA , as well as business and industrial representatives from both the Houston and Austin communities, also are volunteering their services and expertise.

First- through-fourth-place winners will be decided for each contest and subsequently recognized as part of Saturday’s awards ceremony. Two teams from each division will advance to the 2024 Science Olympiad National Tournament , to be held May 24-25 at Michigan State University.

The Science Olympiad is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of K-12 science education, increasing student interest in science, and recognizing outstanding achievements in science education by both students and teachers. Michigan State University hosted the first Science Olympiad National Tournament in 1985, with 17 states participating. Today, approximately 6,000 teams across all 50 states are involved in 425 tournaments hosted annually on college campuses.

Find more information on this year’s Texas Science Olympiad , including event schedules for both divisions.

To learn more about the Science Olympiad organization, visit soinc.org .

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Campus protests live update: Police arrest protesters at USC, UT Austin as pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread to more campuses

The latest on pro-palestinian campus protests.

University of Southern California police arrested 93 people after they warned protesters to disperse. The university said protests devolved into vandalism and confrontations.
Columbia University said this morning that student protesters had agreed to take down "a significant number of tents," but protests will continue.
The university said protesters had agreed to ensure anyone not enrolled at Columbia would leave campus, the encampment would follow fire safety rules, and discriminatory or harassing language would be prohibited.
Protests are spreading at campuses across the U.S., with encampments now established at Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

How the Columbia protests sparked campus demonstrations across the country

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It just added fuel to the fire.

The decision by Columbia University’s president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations that have erupted at universities in New York City and across the country in recent days, students and faculty members said.

Since Thursday, when police arrested 108 Columbia University demonstrators, similar protests have erupted on campuses across the country.

The encampment at Columbia sprung up April 17, the day Shafik was grilled about on-campus antisemitism by the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Shafik faced questions about her handling of antisemitism on campus after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7 alongside two members of Columbia’s Board of Trustees and the head of its antisemitism task force. The next day, Shafik had police clear the encampment; more than 100 protesters were arrested.

Read the full story here.

93 arrested at University of Southern California, police say

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The Los Angeles Police Department said late tonight that 93 people were arrested at today’s protest at the University of Southern California.

There were no injuries, the LAPD said on X. The arrests were for trespassing.

“Patrols will remain in the area through tomorrow,” the department said.

Group outside Travis County Jail in Austin chants ‘let them out’

AUSTIN, Texas — Around 150 people outside the Travis County Jail in Austin chanted “let them out” and “free Palestine” tonight after more than 30 people were arrested in demonstrations at the University of Texas at Austin.

At least 34 people were arrested at the demonstration at the university earlier today, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

University President Jay Hartzell said that a group tried to “occupy” part of the campus in protest over the war in Gaza, broke university policies and refused multiple requests to leave.

The demonstrators outside the jail tonight beat on a drum and chanted, “All charges have got to go.”

UT Austin faculty condemn leadership, say they won’t teach tomorrow

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A letter that says it is from “concerned UT Austin faculty” condemned university leaders and said faculty members won’t work tomorrow because of the school’s “militarized response” to a student event.

“No business as usual tomorrow. No classes. No grading. No work. No assignments,” the letter read. It was not clear from the letter how many faculty members planned to participate.

A university spokesperson said the administration had seen the statement but would not comment on it.

Several professors shared the letter today on social media. It called out President Jay Hartzell and other administrators for allowing police on the campus and turning it into a “militarized zone” in response to a planned “Public University for Gaza” event on the school’s main lawn.

The planned event featured no threat of violence, no disruption to classes and no intimidation of the campus community, the letter noted.

“We are deeply concerned about our students’ well-being and safety,” the letter read. “We have witnessed police punching a female student, knocking over a legal observer, dragging a student over a chain link fence, and violently arresting students simply for standing at the front of the crowd.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the letter.

Students at University of Michigan encampment vow to stay

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Around 120 people gathered to hear speeches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor today condemning the war in Gaza, while those at an encampment there vowed to stay until their demands are met.

Those at the encampment in support of Gaza say they want the university to “divest,” a demand also made at other colleges that they not support entities that could be linked to the war and sometimes not to invest in Israel.

The university says it shields decisions about investments from outside pressure.

“Regarding the calls for divestment, the university has had a policy in place for nearly 20 years that shields the university’s investments from political pressures,” a spokesperson has said.

“Much of the money invested through the university’s endowment, for example, is donor funding given to provide long-term financial support for designated purposes,” the spokesperson said.

Derek Peterson, an African history professor, today saluted the protesters.

“The insults to humanity that’s going on in Gaza today requires action and not simple passive response," he said.

‘Our University will not be occupied,' UT Austin president says

The president of the University of Texas at Austin called today “a challenging day” but said protesters will not be allowed to break the school's rules and policies.

“Our University will not be occupied,” President Jay Hartzell said.

“The protesters tried to deliver on their stated intent to occupy campus. People not affiliated with UT joined them, and many ignored University officials’ continual pleas for restraint and to immediately disperse,” Hartzell wrote.

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Protesters against the war in Gaza have attempted to set up encampments at universities all over the country to show their opposition for the conflict.

Hartzell said the university respects free speech but will take all necessary steps to ensure it can continue to operate without interruption.

At least 34 arrests made at UT Austin, Texas police say

As of 9 p.m. local time, there have been 34 arrests at the University of Texas at Austin after demonstrations opposing the war in Gaza, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

Around 50 arrested at USC, police say

Los Angeles police said around 50 people have been arrested so far at the University of Southern California after protesters refused to leave the central campus, NBC Los Angeles reported .

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The demonstration earlier prompted the school's provost to restrict access to the University Park campus after he said "their actions have escalated to include acts of vandalism, defacing campus buildings and structures, as well as physical confrontation that threatens the safety of our officers and campus community."

Police moved in at around 6 p.m. PT after warnings were issued that those who remained would be subject to arrest.

Police detaining protesters at USC campus

Police at the University of Southern California began detaining demonstrators in plastic hand restraints after a group of Gaza war protesters refused to leave.

Officers took demonstrators one by one to police vans, video from NBC Los Angeles at the scene showed. Others stood by and watched from around the area.

After being warned to leave or face arrest, a group of demonstrators locked arms in a circle and chanted that they wanted USC to disclose its investments and divest from entities associated with war.

The arrests appeared to be orderly and peaceful.

Jewish Federation of Los Angeles calls campus protests alarming

A Jewish group in Los Angeles today called the tone of protests on campus against the war in Gaza alarming and said it was concerned about antisemitism.

The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles issued the statement on the day a demonstration on the campus of the University of Southern California, which is in Los Angeles, devolved into vandalism and confrontations, according to the university.

“While we believe in peaceful civic discourse, these protests have escalated to the point of creating a dangerous climate for Jews on campus,” the Jewish Federation said in a statement.

According to authorities in Gaza, more than 30,000 people have been killed in the enclave in Israel's response to Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, which killed about 1,200 people.

USC deans permitted to move classes online

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The provost of the University of Southern California has allowed academic deans to move classes online for the rest of the week, the university said in a statement.

Instructors also have the option to continue to teach in person, the statement said.

Police have moved onto the campus and given orders for protesters to disperse or face arrest, and some protesters have been detained.

Protesters enter intersection near USC as police prepare to move on campus demonstration

A group of protesters have moved into an intersection near the University of Southern in California, where the LAPD was preparing to move on other protesters.

Aerial video from NBC Los Angeles showed some cars doing U-turns and going back the way they came after the group stood in the T-shaped intersection with signs.

Princeton threatens arrest, expulsion for students in encampments

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University officials today warned Princeton students that they will be arrested and barred from the New Jersey campus if they participate in encampments or engage in other “unlawful disruptive conduct."

In an email to students, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun reiterated the school’s support for freedom of expression but said officials would step in when protests disrupt operations or create “unsafe” situations.

“In addition to disrupting University operations, some types of protest actions (including occupying or blocking access to buildings, establishing outdoor encampments and sleeping in any campus outdoor space) are inherently unsafe for both those involved and for bystanders, and they increase the potential for escalation and confrontation,” Calhoun wrote.

That conduct is prohibited, and it runs counter to the university’s mission and legal obligation to provide a safe environment for students and employees, she continued, adding that the school will “act promptly in order to address it.”

“Any individual involved in an encampment, occupation, or other unlawful disruptive conduct who refuses to stop after a warning will be arrested and immediately barred from campus,” she said. “For students, such exclusion from campus would jeopardize their ability to complete the semester.”

Potential disciplinary action includes suspension, delay of diploma or expulsion, she added.

Police seen moving in on protest at USC

Police detained at least one protester on the campus of the University of Southern California as they moved in to clear demonstrators from the center of campus.

Officers with helmets on moved into the area at around 5:37 p.m. PT after USC Police Chief Lauretta Hill warned people to leave Alumni Park, saying that it was private property and that they had 10 minutes to leave or face arrest.

A group linked arms and formed a circle, chanting “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.” Another person wrote a jail support phone number on their arms expecting to be arrested, video from NBC Los Angeles showed.

Officers with riot helmets and batons detained a protester outside the school’s public affairs building, and a crowd chanted, “Let her go!"

Earlier today, USC Provost Andrew Guzman said that protesters refused orders to move to a “compliant location” and that the campus would be closed and visitors would be restricted.

“Their actions have escalated to include acts of vandalism, defacing campus buildings and structures, as well as physical confrontation that threatens the safety of our officers and campus community,” Guzman, who is also USC’s senior vice president for academic affairs, said in a letter to the campus.

Many of the demonstrators appeared not to be connected to USC, he wrote. At one point, a chanting crowd surrounded a police vehicle, video showed. Other video showed security removing a tent.

Throughout the afternoon, USC said there was “still significant activity at the center of the UPC campus due to a demonstration” and urged people to avoid it.

LAPD will clear USC, make arrests if people stay, campus police say

Protesters refusing to leave the center of the USC campus in University Park will be arrested, the university security department warned moments ago.

"The Los Angeles Police Department is clearing the center of the UPC campus. If you are in the center of campus, please leave; LAPD will be arresting people who don’t disperse," the USC Department of Public Safety said on X at around 5:50 p.m. PT.

USC police chief threatens charges to those who remain in park

The chief of USC's Department of Public Safety told demonstrators who have been at the campus’ Alumni Park they face criminal trespass charges if they do not leave.

“This is private property,” Chief Lauretta Hill warned demonstrators after protests over the Gaza war that USC said devolved into acts of vandalism and confrontations.

“You have 10 minutes to leave the park,” Hill said, using a megaphone. She said those who refused to leave would be subject to criminal trespass.

Harvard ‘monitoring’ encampment on Harvard Yard

Harvard is monitoring a pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up in the center of campus, a university spokesperson said today.

“We are closely monitoring the situation and are prioritizing the safety and security of the campus community,” spokesperson Jason Newton said in a statement.

Video posted to social media showed a large group of people waving Palestinian flags, setting up tents and chanting pro-Palestinian messages on Harvard Yard, a grassy area that constitutes the school’s historic center .

‘I just can’t stop thinking about the kids in Gaza,’ UT protester and mom says

UT Austin graduate Meg Halpin was at today’s demonstration for a reason that was personal in a way, even though the war in Gaza is half a world away.

“I just can’t stop thinking about the kids in Gaza. I’m a mom, too,” Halpin told NBC News. “So thinking about what those families have been going through."

Halpin said she is proud of the students for demonstrating.

“I think it’s really beautiful to see students showing up just to take a stand for those people and against what’s happening to those families in Gaza,” she said.

More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to health authorities there, since Israel launched its war against Hamas in response to Hamas terrorist attacks that killed more than 1,300 in Israel in October.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday cited authorities in Gaza as saying 14,685 of those killed have been children.

Biden meets Abigail Edan, 4-year-old American held hostage by Hamas

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WASHINGTON — Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of the war.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House meeting with Abigail and her family was “a reminder of the work still to do” to win the release of dozens of people Hamas took captive in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel and are still believed to be in captivity in Gaza.

Abigail, who has dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship, was taken hostage after her parents were killed in the attack, and she was released nearly seven weeks later. She was the first U.S. hostage freed by Hamas as part of a deal with Israel to exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners early in the war. Abigail turned 4 in captivity.

“It was also a reminder in getting to see her that there are still Americans and others being held hostage by Hamas,” said Sullivan, who attended Biden’s meeting with the Abigail and her family. “And we’re working day in, day out to ensure all of them also are able to get safely home to their loved ones.”

Hamas today released a recorded video of an Israeli American it still holds . Sullivan said U.S. law enforcement officials are assessing the video but declined to comment further.

'You can't escape it,' Jewish student at UT Austin says of protests

Two freshmen expressing support today for Israel at UT Austin, where 20 people were arrested in pro-Palestinian protests, said they support how the university and police are responding.

“If I went to school in New York, the school would be online; I wouldn’t even be getting an education,” Bradley Bleiman, who is from Chicago and Jewish, told NBC affiliate KXAN of Austin .

Bleiman and Josh Roth, who is from New York and is also Jewish, said it has been uncomfortable at times on the campus of around 51,000 as passions have been inflamed by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people there, according to Gaza health officials.

Bleiman said his fraternity was vandalized in the fall. “It’s been hard, right? It’s uncomfortable,” he told the station.

“I was literally on my way to my math exam, and I heard 'Free Palestine' as I’m walking to my test, trying to be prepared for math and everything,” Roth said.

“It’s like you can’t escape it, even if you don’t want to be a part of this. Even if you want to stay on the sidelines, you can’t escape it,” Roth said. “It’s horrible, and I really wish it wasn’t happening at UT.”

Columbia board of trustees 'strongly supports' president amid criticisms

Madison Lambert

The Columbia University Board of Trustees today publicly backed President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik after House Speaker Mike Johnson called on her to resign if she can't tamp down Gaza war protests on campus.

In a statement, the board said it "strongly supports" Shafik "as she steers the university through this extraordinarily challenging time." Shafik and top university officials met with Johnson, R-La., and several of his Republican colleagues earlier.

"During the search process for this role, President Shafik told us that she would always take a thoughtful approach to resolving conflict, balancing the disparate voices that make up a vibrant campus like Columbia’s, while taking a firm stance against hatred, harassment and discrimination," the board wrote. "That’s exactly what she’s doing now."

Speaking on the steps of Columbia’s Low Library today, Johnson called on Shafik to "bring order to this chaos” as students and protesters continue to maintain a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school.

The board said it is working with Shafik to resolve the situation and "rebuild the bonds of our community," and it encouraged other to join those efforts.

What is in the Israel funding bill that Biden signed

The $26 billion aid bill to Israel that was passed by the Senate last night and signed by President Joe Biden today has been the subject of protests by those who oppose U.S. military support for Israel in its war in Gaza.

The bill includes billions in weapons, as well as some humanitarian assistance.

It provides:

The bill includes provisions to report whether any assistance to Gaza was diverted by Hamas.

The bill passed with a large bipartisan majority in the Senate, 79-18. It also includes military funding for Ukraine and Taiwan.

Photos: Protesters clash with police at USC

Elise Wrabetz

University of Southern California public safety officers detained pro-Palestinian demonstrators during clashes after officers tried to take down an encampment at the university in Los Angeles in support of Gaza today.

Speaker Mike Johnson defends rhetoric about Columbia criticism

Stephanie Gosk

In an interview after his remarks at Columbia, House Speaker Johnson defended his comments that Jewish students are running for their lives on campus.

"They canceled classes out of fear of physical violence with these students," Johnson told NBC News after he was asked why that level of rhetoric was being used.

Many Jewish students talked about being afraid but did not describe running for safety.

Image: Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks On Antisemitism At Columbia University

Johnson went on to criticize the president of Columbia and other Ivy League schools, saying student protesters should be arrested after a certain point.

"These administrators can’t control their campus. The first responsibility of a university administrator is to keep their students safe," he said.

Asked about arresting students, Johnson said: "If you don’t get control of it, yes, they should be arrested."

USC closes campus gates because of demonstration

Antonio Planas

The gates at the University of Southern California are closed because of a demonstration and anyone affiliated with the university must show identification to attend classes or other business on campus, school officials said this afternoon.

Students were urged to "avoid the center of campus unless you have a class," the university said in a statement.

The protest outside Doheny Memorial Library and in the center of academic buildings have been attended by many people who are not associated with USC, according to a letter to the USC community from Andrew T. Guzman, the university's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Demonstrators were "repeatedly asked by security personnel to remove their tents and other prohibited items as well as relocate to a compliant location. In each case, protesters refused," Guzman said. "Their actions have escalated to the point of confrontation and have threatened the safety of our officers and campus community."

The move to close the gates was made to restrict the growth of the protest and to keep the campus calm, Guzman said.

The university has policies on time limits, places to protest and how demonstrators protest. The policies include prohibiting erecting tents and other encampments, use of loudspeakers, signs on poles or stakes and the disruption of classes or other "essential functions of the university," Guzman said.

The university rejects hate speech and embraces the values of freedom of expression, Guzman said, but its highest priority is "to protect the safety of our community and ensure our academic programs and university activities continue unabated."

More than 20 arrests made at UT Austin

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Law enforcement have arrested more than 20 people on the University of Texas at Austin campus, the state Public Safety Department said in a statement.

The statement said the Public Safety Department was called to campus today at the request of the university and Gov. Greg Abbott “in order to prevent any unlawful assembly and to support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including criminal trespass.”

Abbott, in reply to a video on X of pro-Palestinian protests at UT Austin, said arrests were being made "right now" and "will continue until the crowd disperses.

"These protesters belong in jail," Abbott wrote on X. He added: "Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."

Columbia asserts they will not call in National Guard

Reports that Columbia University was calling in the National Guard to help maintain order are "baseless," the school's vice president of communications said.

"I also want to make a point about an assertion that's been made, a rumor that is baseless, about the university threatening to bring in the National Guard," Ben Chang said at a briefing today. "Let me be clear, that is untrue and an unsubstantiated claim."

Referring to statement sent out by the university last night, Chang said there was no mention of either New York police or the National Guard and pointed listeners to "the words of the statement as to what our focus is on."

“Our focus, our goal, is to restore order, and if we can get there through dialogue, we will," Chang said.

Columbia's president met with Speaker Johnson before remarks

Columbia President Minouche Shafik met with House Speaker Mike Johnson ahead of his remarks at the university this afternoon, Ben Chang, Columbia's vice president of communications, said at a briefing today.

When Johnson's visit to the university was announced, Chang said Shafik offered to meet with Johnson, R-La., and his House colleagues, which she did before their joint remarks.

"The president shares the representatives' focus on and commitment to the safety and security of all members of the campus community, and she appreciates help from all of those who offer it," Chang said.

Speaking outside the Low Library, Johnson and his colleagues called for Shafik to resign "if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.”

Harvard students start encampment, joining a slew of other American universities

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Harvard University has joined the growing list of American universities holding solidarity encampment protests.

Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, a group that describes itself on Instagram as a "coalition of Harvard students fighting for divestment and a #FreePalestine," posted today that it established a "liberated zone" on campus, joining a slew of other campuses across the country.

"Following the lead of our brave comrades on campuses across the country, this Liberated Zone is a demonstration of our love of justice, our hope for a free Palestine, and our dream of a liberated future for all," it said on Instagram. "We see our institution's complicity as one link among many that must be severed on the path to liberation."

The group is demanding that Harvard disclose any and all investments in "Israel, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the occupation of Palestine," as well as that it "divest from all such investment" and reinvest those resources into "Palestinian academic initiatives, communities, and culture."

It is also demanding Harvard drop charges against students for "organizing and activism, and commit to ending the weaponization of disciplinary policy."

The encampment was set up in Harvard Yard, according to the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson . Harvard Yard was to be closed until Friday in anticipation of possible protests.

UT Austin says it 'does not tolerate' campus disruptions amid police presence during pro-Palestinian protests

The University of Texas at Austin "does not tolerate disruptions of campus activities or operations like we have seen at other campuses," a spokesperson for the university's Division of Student Affairs said in a statement, referring to a number of pro-Palestinian encampments and protests that have popped up at schools across the country.

"This is an important time in our semester with students finishing classes and studying for finals and we will act first and foremost to allow those critical functions to proceed without interruption," the UT statement said.

The spokesperson shared a PDF of a letter sent to the Palestine Solidarity Committee last night, which says the university is "steadfast in our support of free speech" but asked the group to cancel the event because it "declared intent to violate our policies and rules, and disrupt our campus operations."

“Simply put, The University of Texas at Austin will not allow this campus to be ‘taken’ and protesters to derail our mission in ways that groups affiliated with your national organization have accomplished elsewhere,” the letter said.

It warned that an attempt to hold the event would subject participating members to discipline, including suspension, that those who are not affiliated with the school would be asked to leave, and that refusing to do so could result in arrest.

"Our campus has a long history of peaceful student protests and free speech and expression," the letter said. It invited the group to host an event "that adheres to our University policies and rules."

"However, whether you reach out for such assistance or not, you are responsible for understanding the University’s expectations for students and their organizations," the letter said. "Failing to comply with this notice will subject you to student discipline. You, your organization, and its members will not receive an additional warning."

Speaker Mike Johnson calls for resignation of Columbia president

In remarks outside of the Low Library at Columbia University, Speaker Mike Johnson and his colleagues from the House called for university President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik to resign over her handling of the dayslong protests at the Ivy League school and her inability to protect Jewish students on campus.

Johnson, R-La., said he is “calling on President Shafik to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.”

The announcement came moments after Johnson and fellow members of Congress met with Jewish students at Columbia, who recalled recent "heinous acts of bigotry" and instances of antisemitism on campus, the lawmakers said.

When Johnson took the podium outside the library, he was met with a chorus of boos from protesters gathered nearby. Throughout his speech, the protesters chanted, "We can't hear you," among other sentiments, to continually disrupt his remarks.

Johnson acknowledged the inalienable rights students in America have, but he called out the need to keep all students safe and said, "Those who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested."

He said Congress "will not be silent" as Jewish students are "expected to run for their lives" and forced to stay home from class and attend virtually to ensure their safety.

Asked what he has to say to the students in the encampment at Columbia, Johnson said, "Go back to class and stop the madness," adding that they "can't intimidate fellow students and make them stay home from class."

Earlier today, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she didn't see the benefit of Johnson's visit to Columbia.

"I think politicizing this and bringing the entourage to put a spotlight on this is only adding to the division,” Hochul said. "A speaker worth the title should really be trying to heal people and not divide them, so I don’t think it adds to anything."

Indian traditional dances performed inside Columbia encampment

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South Asian students in Columbia University's encampment are using traditional dance from the subcontinent to show solidarity with the protesters. Viral videos show Punjabi students performing bhangra in the middle of the tents, which have been set up at the campus for days, even following controversial mass arrests .

Columbia's renowned bhangra team has a 20-year history on campus. Other students at the protest performed bharatnatyam, a dance style native to South India.

The video went viral, reached Indian Americans across the country.

"This made me cry," a comment said. "My grandmother lived through the British occupation of India. She was classically trained in bharatnatyam dance and Carnatic music."

Campus police raiding USC encampment protest

Marlene Lenthang

Police responded to the encampment protest and were seen taking down tents at the University of Southern California this afternoon — hours after student activists started their demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Video shared by the activist group People’s City Council — Los Angeles showed USC Public Safety officers dismantling a tent on the Los Angeles campus.

Other video shared by a local ABC affiliate reporter showed a group of police officers pushing back protesters and one officer running after a protester and pinning him against a tree, as demonstrators clamored, “Let go of him!”

The USC Department of Public Safety issued an alert saying, “There is significant activity at the center of the UPC campus due to a demonstration.”

News: Gaza protest on the campus of University of Southern California

Netanyahu denounces U.S. college protests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the college protests taking place across the U.S., saying in a speech today: “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific.”

Netanyahu described the pro-Palestinian encampments and protests expressing solidarity with the plight of the people in Gaza as “antisemitic mobs” taking over “leading universities.”

“It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful,” Netanyahu said.

Many of the protests on campuses have been peaceful, though there have been reports of unruly behavior by outside parties on the periphery of such demonstrations.

Some Jewish students who joined protests at elite universities expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause say their own stories of being Jewish anti-Zionists are being ignored.

Police respond to protest on UT Austin campus

Police are responding to a divestment rally in solidarity with Palestinians unfolding at the University of Texas at Austin campus this afternoon, school police said.

Several students have been arrested , NBC affiliate KXAN of Austin reported.

The school paper, The Daily Texan , wrote on X that state troopers were trying to block protesters from moving north with batons, and it reported that at least two people had been arrested, one of them related to the university.

Uniformed troopers, some with horses, marched through the demonstration area as hordes of students and protesters chanted, “Off our campus!”

The Palestine Solidarity Committee of Austin shared a photo of dozens of troopers dressed in riot gear with vests, shin guards and helmets and holding batons standing on the Speedway Mall of campus.

About 200 students who had gathered for the afternoon rally were immediately met with heavy police and trooper presence that dispersed the crowds, KXAN reported.

Columbia University vows not to call NYPD, National Guard on protesters, student group says

Columbia University 's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine says the university has issued a “written commitment and concession not to call the NYPD or the National Guard” on protesters — a move hailed as “an important victory for students.”

The group said that the administration had previously warned of law enforcement sweeps and “threatened violence” against pupils, causing negotiations to fail and prompting “thousands of peaceful students” to flood the lawns “in support of their peers” last night.

“Student protesters on Columbia’s campus — the majority of whom are Palestinian, Black, brown, and Jewish students from marginalized backgrounds — stood by each other for hours last night, awaiting the outcome of Columbia’s disturbing threat of military or police violence,” the group said. Columbia extended its deadline for students to vacate the lawn multiple times last night.

“We fear that Columbia is risking a second Jackson State or Kent State massacre, referring to two instances in which universities called the National Guard on student protesters to have them violently beaten and killed,” the group said.

Image: Pro-Palestinian Protests Continue At Columbia University In New York City

Rudy Giuliani heckled at Columbia University protest

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped near a Columbia University protest yesterday, where he spoke to some people through his car window, and was heckled.

Giuliani, who served as part of Donald Trump's legal team when he was in office, remained in a black SUV, donning an American-flag themed shirt.

"Lock him up! Lock him up!" a heckler was heard yelling. "Rudy Giuliani! Go to jail! New York hates you! The Yankees hate you!"

Jewish peace activist calls for 'exodus from Zionism'

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Peace and environmental activist Naomi Klein, who is Jewish, joined hundreds of antiwar demonstrators outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's home Tuesday night for an "emergency" Seder.

Addressing the crowd, Klein said Zionism has become a "false idol" and said calling for an end to the war in Gaza is not antisemitic. Read the full text of her speech here .

Jewish Groups Hold Protest Outside Senator Schumer's Home Over Arming Of Israel

Here's an excerpt:

"Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by nature.

Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that state, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred — including against us as Jews.

Our Judaism is not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine across lines of race, ethnicity, physical ability, gender identity and generations.

Our Judaism is one of those voices and knows that in that chorus lies both our safety and our collective liberation."

House Speaker will call for Columbia University's president to resign

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R- La., said he’ll call for Columbia University’s President Minouche Shafik to resign when he visits campus today.

“This president, Shafik, has shown to be a very weak, inept leader. They cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students? They’re expected to run for their lives and stay home from class? It’s just, it’s maddening. What we’re seeing on these college campuses across the country is disgusting and unacceptable,” Johnson said in a morning interview with conservative political commentator and radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Columbia's campus has seen encampment protests since last week and controversial mass arrests.

Johnson is set to meet with Jewish students a 3 p.m. and hold a news conference at 3:45 p.m. today.

University of Southern California launches encampment protest

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles was the latest school to start a solidarity encampment protest today.

A statement shared online from the USC Divest from Death Coalition, comprising students, faculty and Los Angeles community members, said “Our choice of ‘occupation’ draws attention to the complicity of USC in the Israeli occupation, USC’s displacement of the South Central community, and USC being an occupying force on the unneeded land of the Tongva people.”

The group said it was joining the nationwide call by students for universities to disclose their finances, "divest from Israeli violence" and "defend Palestinians."

NYU assistant professor describes 'violent' arrests at student protest

Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, an assistant professor of journalism at NYU, said he and other faculty members went to support students protesting in support of Palestinians yesterday when ranks of “intimidating” helmeted police officers closed in and arrested them.

”I can’t even count how many police. Then they arrested faculty and they violently arrest students, and sort of destroyed this academy that the students had set up. Took all of us down to One Police Plaza, the NYPD headquarters, and everyone was charged with trespass,” he said.

Kumanyika said students were grabbed, handcuffed with zip ties and officers were seen throwing chairs.

“All of this is being done under the justification that it is somehow protecting the NYU community. But I think what’s actually going on is that this university wants to avoid the call for divestment, the call for transparency about its investments in Israel. Just the idea that this is about safety is kind of ridiculous, given what I experienced last night,” he said.

He rebuffed the university’s claims of “disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior” that “interfered with the safety and security of our community.”

“In the spirit of solidarity between Jews and Muslims, they held a Seder at the protest. And there, what the university did was break that up, and somehow call that fighting antisemitism,” Kumanyika said.

Biden signs $95B foreign aid package, includes $26B to Israel and $1B to support Gaza

President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid package today that includes $26 billion in assistance to Israel and humanitarian relief in Gaza.

Gaza will receive $1 billion in aid that includes funds for food, medical supplies and water.

"This bill significantly, significantly increases humanitarian assistance we’re sending to the innocent people of Gaza who are suffering badly, they are suffering the consequences of this war that Hamas started and we’ve been working intently for months to get as much aid to Gaza as possible," Biden told reporters.

"Israel must make sure all this aid reaches the Palestinians in Gaza without delay," he said.

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Pro-Palestinian protests continue at UC Berkeley as students call for an end to Israeli ties and arms investments

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Student protesters at the University of California's Berkeley campus joined students across the country yesterday in demanding their school cut all ties with Israeli institutions.

The Berkeley protesters have camped out for the last two days in opposition to the war in Gaza."I guess I'm not super surprised. I mean, it is Berkeley, things like this are happening all the time. The only thing that's surprising me is, it's this late in the semester," UC Berkeley student Any Bass told KNTV, NBC News' affiliate in the Bay Area.

"$2 billion of our tuition money goes to funding contacts with arms and weapons manufacturers, like Boeing, BlackRock, Lockheed Martin and many more," another student, Malak Agenah, said.

The university, however, was unmoved. "We're heard what their demands are and there are no plans to change our investment strategies, policies or practices," spokesperson Dan Mogulof told KNTV.

Students at Brown University start solidarity encampment

An encampment protest started this morning at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with about 90 students seen joining shortly after 6 a.m., the school said.

A university spokesperson said that encampment on the university’s “historic and residential greens is a violation of University policy.” Students participating were informed they’d face conduct proceedings, the school added.

“We have been troubled by reports of violence, harassment and intimidation at some encampments on other campuses, but we have not seen that kind of behavior at Brown. Any such behavior would not be tolerated,” the university said, noting it is monitoring the situation.

An Instagram post by the Brown Divest Coalition said the protest demands that Brown divest its endowment from “all companies enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza and the broader Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.”

Columbia students commit to remove tents, as professor criticizes protests

Erin McLaughlin

A spokesperson for Columbia University says students have committed to dismantling and removing a significant number of tents amid nationwide protests.

The news came as some university staff, including journalism professor Hagar Chemali, criticized the protests.

"At the end of the day, we can't be enabling hate or incitement to violence, or disruption to the students." she told NBC's "TODAY" show this morning.

Scenes from Columbia University campus overnight

Max Butterworth

Pro-Palestinian Protests Continue At Columbia University In New York City

Pro-Palestinian supporters rally inside Columbia University in New York City last night. Students are seen moving a tent inside the campus as demonstrations continue into the night.

Police arrest 9 at University of Minnesota pro-Palestinian protests

Nine people were arrested at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus yesterday, the institution said this morning.

Some students had set up an encampment on the north end of Northrop Mall and were warned by police early yesterday to disperse or be arrested. Some chose to disperse while others chose to remain and peacefully protest before they were arrested and later released.

"It’s important to note that the U of M supports and respects free speech through lawful protest. As a public research university, demonstrations where groups express diverse views and opinions occur regularly on our campus," a school spokesperson said. "We support the rights of all members of our University community to speak and demonstrate peacefully."

Over 200 arrested at pro-Palestinian rally near home of Chuck Schumer

At least 209 people were arrested last night after pro-Palestinian Jewish groups held a rally at Grand Army Plaza in New York, near the home of Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, the NYPD told NBC New York.

The protests came after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a $26 billion package that included new assistance to Israel and humanitarian relief for Gaza.

Police arrest protesters near the home of Sen. Chuck Schumer in Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

University rallies and walkouts planned across the U.S. today

Elizabeth Maline

Universities across the country will stage their own protests today to decry the war in the Middle East and express solidarity with Gaza.

Encampment protests went late into the night at New York University and Columbia University last evening.

Today in Texas, Rice University in Houston will hold a Gaza protest starting at 10 a.m. local time (11 a.m. ET); meanwhile the University of Texas at Austin will see students walk out of class for a divestment rally just before noon.

In the Midwest, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has a walkout slated for 12 p.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) to demand acknowledgment of the killings of Palestinians because of Israeli occupation and to call for divestment from Israel.

The University of Michigan saw students set up an encampment protest Monday by a coalition of pro-Palestinian student organizations. A rally is scheduled on campus, as well, at 3 p.m. to support the encampment.

FBI coordinates with campuses over wave of protests

Ken Dilanian

The FBI is coordinating with college campuses to make them aware of antisemitic threats and possible violence in connection with the ongoing wave of protests over the Israel-Hamas war, FBI Director Christopher Wray told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview last night.

He said the FBI is “keenly focused on working with state and local law enforcement, campus law enforcement and others to try to make sure that we stay ahead” of any threats of violence.

Wray said the FBI doesn’t monitor protests, “but we do share intelligence about specific threats of violence with campuses, with state and local law enforcement.”

Senate passes $26 billion aid for for Israel, Gaza

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Frank Thorp V producer and off-air reporter

The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly passed an aid package that includes $26 billion in assistance to Israel and humanitarian relief in Gaza.

The package, approved by a 79-18 vote, also includes aid for Ukraine and Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific.

Protesters gathered near Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home yesterday, opposed to U.S. military assistance to Israel in the war in Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians.

The total amount of the package to the three areas is $95 billion, and it includes a provision that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok .

President Joe Biden said he will swiftly sign the package into law.

A look into college campuses’ long history of serving as a cultural movement platform

Valerie Castro

Valerie Castro breaks down the decadeslong history of college campuses serving as platforms for cultural movements as more groups from universities across the nation have joined in on the pro-Palestinian movement.

Protests to go on after student protesters agreed to remove 'a significant number of tents'

Columbia University has said it will continue conversations with pro-Palestinian protest leaders for the next 48 hours, without forcing the encampment to be removed.

Student groups had been circulating messages that a new deadline to disperse had been set for 8 a.m. ET. But the college said there was no deadline and instead talks continue and some concessions had been agreed.

"We are making important progress with representatives of the student encampment on the West lawn," a college spokesperson said. The statement also confirmed that:

Columbia previously said it had set a deadline of midnight for dismantling the encampment, dispersing and following university policies going forward.

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Innovation Campus to host Earth Day celebration

Nebraska Innovation Campus was named Outstanding Research Park at AURP's 27th Annual Awards of Excellence in Innovation.

The Lincoln Earth Day Celebration will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 20 at Nebraska Innovation Campus.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature more than 50 booth exhibitors, live music, local food vendors, and a clothing swap. Learn more on the UNL Events calendar .

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In a two-hour tirade to the hardest core of anti-Israeli activists at Columbia and its sister college, Barnard, Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, said, “These are the people who are on the front lines defending Palestine and fighting for its liberation.”

Kates — who was referring to a terrorist organization responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of Israelis on October 7 — and her husband, Khaled Barakat, spoke to members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group in a seminar called “Resistance 101.”

A photo of Khaled Barakat speaking into the camera on Zoom.

Barakat and Kates counseled the Columbia students during the “Resistance 101” presentation to ignore the press and keep demonstrating.

“Every demonstration in New York matters more than all this nonsense that happens in mainstream media,” Barakat told them. “Your work is so important to the resistance in Gaza, more than ever.”

Kates and Barakat represented themselves as speaking on behalf of Samidoun, the “Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” at the meeting.

In reality, Barakat is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is a designated terrorist organization responsible for a string of attacks on Israeli civilians and closely allied to both Hamas and Hezbollah.

Charlotte Kates and Khaled Barakat speaking at Resistance 101 event

Among the outrages for which it has claimed responsibility is a 2014 attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which attackers armed with meat cleavers killed four rabbis , three of them Israeli Americans.

The PFLP took part in the October 7 massacres and previously murdered a 17-year-old Israeli girl while she was hiking.

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And Samidoun has campaigned for years for the release of Ahmad Sa’adat, the PFLP’s leader who oversaw years of murderous attacks, some of them suicide bombings.

While lecturing the students at the $60,000-a-year Ivy League college on “resistance,” Barakat and Kates did not discuss the reality of life in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas persecuted LGBT Palestinians and killed its enemies without even the pretense of trials.

Barakat also failed to mention that he was banned from entering Germany for years in 2020 for his antisemitic rants.

Aidan Parisi, a 27-year-old student at Columbia's School of Social Work, taking a selfie

“The Israelis and the Nazis are almost identical in terms of the way they look at the victim,” Barakat said in 2013, according to Middle East Media and Research Institute, a Washington-based think tank, a slur which was followed by the German government’s ban.

Barakat and Kates, an American who now lives in Vancouver, Canada, and who has a law degree from Rutgers, have not just appeared virtually at Columbia.

In November, Kates was part of a “teach-in” at CUNY in which she praised the Oct. 7 pogrom as a “pivotal” moment for Hamas’ military wing, according to a social media post.

Postgraduate social work student Aidan Parisi

Antisemitism controversy at Columbia University: Key events

The “Resistance 101” session was organized by students who have become key figures in the mass protest, which began last Thursday and which has left Jewish students saying they felt unsafe.

The ubiquitous pro-Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani , founder of Within Our Lifetime, one of the sponsors of the event, said during the event that she was “sitting in Columbia University.”

Within Our Lifetime has officially endorsed the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and vocally supported Hamas at the frequent rallies it has staged in New York City since the attack.

The group that invited the terror group member, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is not officially affiliated with the college.

It grew out of Students for Justice in Palestine, which was suspended by the college in November last year.

Unlike many colleges, Columbia’s student groups do not require sponsorship by a member of the faculty.

However, the college did — at least initially — act against some of the organizers of “Resistance 101,” suspending them for holding an unauthorized event after denying permission for it to be held at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Maryam Alwam, a 21-year-old comparative literature student at Columbia, with long black hair and scarf inside a tent

It is unclear whether the student group acknowledged it was inviting a member of a proscribed terrorist group.

Three of the suspended students can be named by The Post as postgraduate social work student Aidan Parisi, 27; senior Maryam Alwan, 21, who is studying comparative literature; and Cameron Jones, 19, of Jewish Voice for Peace, who will graduate in 2026.

There is uncertainty on the exact number of students who were suspended. The Columbia Spectator said six had been disciplined but four had been readmitted, though on Tuesday, a lawyer for the students, Stanley Cohen, told the Village Sun the total was 16, of whom 12 had their suspensions lifted.

A photo of Ahmad Sa'ad looking off camera in a brown shirt.

Parisi, who uses they/them pronouns, is from Washington, DC, and previously studied at the University of California, San Jose.

When The Post contacted Parisi for comment, Parisi called back to say we had no right to contact them and accused The Post of “stalking.” Parisi declined to comment on supporting the Palestinian movement even though it is not kind to LGBTQIA people.

“What these universities don’t understand is that you can suspend us, evict us, fire us, arrest us, do whatever to us, but we will not stop fighting for Palestine,” Parisi posted on X — where their handle is “It’s Aidan bitch” Monday. “Your repression has only made our commitment to liberation stronger. With Palestine as our compass, we will never fail.”

Masked Palestinian Hamas fighters marching in an honouring ceremony for fallen comrades in Deir Al-Balah refugee camp, Gaza Strip, in February 2005

Alwan, who could not be reached for comment, is Palestinian American, and was also unbowed, despite being arrested.

“Columbia University may have devolved into a fascist police state, but it cannot arrest our joy,” she posted after being removed from the Columbia lawn by the NYPD last week.

Jones, a sophomore in history and urban studies, calls himself a “lead organizer” with the Jewish Voice for Peace. He went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan and was among the students arrested last week.

Cameron Jones wearing a keffiyeh with text in front of him saying "and with this privilege."

“As a Jewish person, I have immense privilege,” Jones told Al Jazeera earlier this year . “So even though I may be sacrificing my future, if I know I’m making even a tiny, tiny percent difference in the lives of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, I will continue fighting until my last breath.”

Other key organizers of the group behind “Resistance 101” were Catherine Elias, a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs, who told Hyperallergic last week as the NYPD moved in on the Columbia campus and arrested more than 100 protesters that “we have created this encampment in honor of the martyrs in Gaza, following in the footsteps of all those before us.”

It is unclear if she was suspended.

A second social work postgraduate, Layla Saliba, was also an organizer of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group.

Despite Jewish students describing their fear at the anti-Israel protests, she posted on X , “like I’m not even scary i’m just a tired grad student.”

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