It’s starting to look like the encampment at the University of Chicago could be the next to go. The school’s president has said it “cannot continue” and police seem to be arriving on campus.
The University has determined that the pro-Palestine encampment on the main quad is substantially disrupting the functioning and safety of the University, according to an email sent to the University community by President Paul Alivisatos…
“As I wrote on Monday, out of principle we provide the greatest leeway possible for free expression, even expression of viewpoints that some find deeply offensive, even in rare cases at the expense of some policy violations—for a time,” Alivisatos wrote in the email. “But the encampment cannot continue.”
Alivisatos cited the disruption of classes, vandalism of University property, destruction of approved student installations, and the raising of the…
