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June 3, 2024

Graduation Protests for Gaza at Univ. of Chicago, Vassar; Columbia Students Set Up 3rd Encampment
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At the University of Chicago, dozens of students walked out of their
commencement ceremony after school officials withheld diplomas from four
seniors who had participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus.
Protesters could be heard screaming "Stop genocide" during the ceremony.

At Vassar College in New York, hundreds of alumni disrupted the school's
reunion weekend. More than 1,200 Vassar alumni have vowed to withhold
donations until the school cuts ties with companies supplying Israel
with weapons.

Here in New York City, students at Columbia University set up a new
encampment named "Revolt for Rafah" on Friday as the school held its
Alumni Reunion Weekend.

Also in New York, student protesters disrupted commencement ceremonies
at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work. Protesters
displayed banners with the logos of universities destroyed in Gaza.

Meanwhile, on Friday, New York police arrested 34 protesters as they
attempted to occupy the Brooklyn Museum. We will air footage from the
action later in the program.


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