Harvard University has threatened students squatting in the anti-Israel encampment in Harvard Yard with eviction from their dorms, prevention from taking their exams, and being barred from campus if they do not leave.
After allowing the encampment to thrive for nearly two weeks, Harvard interim president Alan Garber called it a “significant risk to the educational environment of the University.”
“Those who participate in or perpetuate its continuation will be referred for involuntary leave from their Schools,” Garber wrote. “Among other implications, students placed on involuntary leave may not be able to sit for exams, may not continue to reside in Harvard housing, and must cease to be present on campus until reinstated.”
Garber said the encampment has forced exams, important activities, and events to be moved elsewhere and has affected students’ ability to “sleep,…
