CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — In the latest wave of pro-Palestinian protests at Harvard University, students and faculty members have engaged in “study-in” actions at university libraries, as protests at other campuses nationwide have also begun to pull in teachers.
About two dozen Harvard faculty members who participated in an Oct. 16 “study-in” in support of students who had been temporarily banned from the library for holding a similar demonstration were themselves given two-week library suspensions, according to the student paper The Harvard Crimson.
The practice involves protesters silently reading materials related to free speech while propping up signs about dissent and University policy next to them or taped to the back of their laptops. Pro-Palestinian protests have roiled and divided Harvard and other campuses for much of the year…