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  • Fraternity Boots Bro Who Made Monkey Noises at Black Ole Miss Protester

    Screenshot/XThe University of Mississippi student who was seen on video making monkey noises and jumping up and down to mock a Black pro-Palestine protester has been expelled from his fraternity after his actions went viral on social media.The fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, announced in a statement on Sunday that the man in question had been swiftly removed from the organization. The student, James “JP” Staples, was identified on Instagram by the NAACP.“Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters is awar

  • Teachers Recall The Outstanding Students Who Left A Lasting Impact On Their Hearts, And I'm Seriously Tearing Up

    Every single one of these students deserves an A+.

  • 'Racist' actions from counterprotesters at University of Mississippi prompt investigation

    The University of Mississippi has opened an investigation into one student's conduct at a May 2 counterprotest surrounding a pro-Palestinian demonstration after administrators were made aware of "offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable" actions "that conveyed hostility and racist overtones," according to school officials. In a letter to students on May 3, Chancellor Glenn F. Boyce said school officials are working to determine whether further investigations are warranted. "As a public institution, we are committed to supporting the rights of our students, faculty, and employees to express their views in a respectful manner and to assemble peacefully as guaranteed by the First Amendment," said Boyce in the May 3 email, which school officials shared with ABC News.

  • Congressman partly backtracks his praise of a campus conflict that included racist gestures

    A Republican congressman on Monday backtracked on some of his praise for a campus conflict that included a man who made monkey noises and gestures at a Black student who was protesting the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia said he understands and respects feedback about one person during the protest at the University of Mississippi. “If that person is found to have treated another human being improperly because of their race, they should be punished appropriately, and will hopefully seek forgiveness,” Collins wrote on the social media site X. “Frankly, I did not believe that to be the focal point of the video shared at the time, but I recognize that there certainly seems to be some potentially inappropriate behavior that none of us should seek to glorify.”

  • University of Chicago clears a pro-Palestinian demonstration as MIT confronts a new encampment

    Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses across the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe. Nearly three weeks into a movement launched by a protest at Columbia University, the Rhode Island School of Design held talks with protesters occupying a building, and MIT dealt with a new encampment on a site that was cleared but immediately retaken by demonstrators.

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters retake MIT encampment

    Pro-Palestinian protesters retook their encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus Monday evening, just hours after mostly vacating the area. The group of tents had been almost entirely emptied out by the 2:30 p.m. deadline set by administrators Monday, with only five students remaining at that time, according to MIT officials. Many other…

  • Ole Miss investigates racial taunts, mocking, at pro-Gaza demonstration

    The University of Mississippi has opened an investigation into reports of students making hostile and racial gestures toward Black students on campus. The University's chancellor said he was aware of the actions.

  • Why a message of peace was lost at Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses | Opinion

    The current pro-Palestinian movement aims to expose unjust practices by Israel. Recent protests have shifted focus away from this goal.

  • Want to show teachers appreciation? This top school gives them more freedom

    When teachers at A.D. Henderson School, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. Nationally, most teachers report feeling stressed and overwhelmed at work, according to a Pew Research Center survey of teachers last fall. Waning job satisfaction over the last two decades has accompanied a decline in teachers’ sense of autonomy in the classroom, according to a recent study out of Brown University and the University of Albany.

  • Columbia University cancels main graduation amid protests

    The Ivy League school says it will hold smaller celebrations to focus on "keeping them safe".

  • NYPD’s references to ‘outside agitators’ at student protests spark criticism

    The New York Police Department has been criticized for its messaging related to student protests gripping college campuses across the nation as top brass share politically biased posts online.

  • Columbia University cancels commencement following weeks of protests

    Students continue to protest as graduation ceremonies get underway amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

  • How campus protests of the past may inform pro-Palestinian student demonstrations

    About 56 years ago, Columbia University's Hamilton Hall was overrun and occupied by student protesters calling for an end to what students called racist policies that displaced communities around the school's campus. It was one of several campus buildings occupied by protesters in dayslong demonstrations. Students setting up food pantries for protesters, hordes of students and faculty covering campus grounds or students flying flags out of Hamilton Hall windows in the 1960s are some of the familiar scenes echoed in today's protests.

  • German police clear pro-Palestinian camp at Berlin university

    German police cleared a pro-Palestinian protest camp on Tuesday at a courtyard of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, which had called for a stop to Israel's military operation in Gaza. Some 100 people set up two dozen tents on the campus on Tuesday, joining a call by the so-called "Student Coalition Berlin" to occupy German universities. Students from various Berlin universities joined the protest, carrying Palestinian flags and shouting slogans supporting Palestinians and denouncing Israel and Germany.

  • Biden to Address Antisemitism at Holocaust Remembrance Event

    The U.S. President will speak at an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

  • UChicago Says Free Speech Is Sacred. Some Students See Hypocrisy.

    CHICAGO — The University of Chicago has built a brand around the idea that its students should be unafraid to encounter ideas or opinions they disagree with. To drum that in, the school provides incoming students with copies of its 2014 free-speech declaration, known as the “Chicago Statement,” which states that freedom of expression is an “essential element” of its culture. And the university has long adhered to a policy of institutional neutrality, which strongly discourages it from divesting

  • Frat Member Kicked Out Of Group After Making Monkey Noises At Black Woman During Protest

    “The racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta," the fraternity wrote this weekend.

  • Ole Miss opens conduct investigation after counterprotesters taunted Black woman

    The University of Mississippi opened a conduct investigation Saturday into at least one student after a video went viral showing a group of students harassing a pro-Palestine protester on the campus last week. Chancellor Glenn Boyce said the counterprotesters’ chants and actions Thursday contained “hostility and racist overtones.” Video showed a group of white men…

  • Large group of University of Chicago faculty defends pro-Palestinian encampment

    A large group of faculty members from the University of Chicago defended a pro-Palestinian student encampment, saying it's been peaceful and non-disruptive on campus. (AP Video:Teresa Crawford)

  • More than 100 arrested at UCLA, UC San Diego as campuses step up security

    Dozens of protesters were arrested at UCLA and UC San Diego on Monday, seeming to signal heightened enforcement on campuses.