NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete “dozens of writing assignments,” a recent Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine press release stated. The release said that in emails sent last week, the university informed students they...| Washington Square News
NYU suspended nine students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Bobst Library’s atrium Friday afternoon, a recent NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition press release states. A university spokesperson had told WSN that students who participated in the protests, which took place in the lobby and outside the building, would “be subject to the university’s disciplinary...| Washington Square News
More than 5,000 NYU alumni sent letters to administrators demanding that the university remove police from campus and meet the demands of the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition — including divestment from companies with ties to Israel and pardoning disciplinary action against students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. The letter, written by the...| Washington Square News
This is a developing story, check back for updates. Around 14 students were arrested in a sweep of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside the Paulson Center early Friday morning, NYU’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition confirmed in a recent statement. Tents and supplies at the encampment, which was set up on the Greene Street Walk last week,...| Washington Square News
President Linda Mills said less than half of the protesters arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza “were current NYU students, faculty or staff” in a universitywide email earlier this evening. Mills stated that hundreds of demonstrators on campus last Monday “did not have permission to be at NYU” and “significantly threatened” the...| Washington Square News
NYU terminated a postdoctoral instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences earlier this month, after he was seen taking down posters of hostages taken by Hamas, a Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine statement said and a copy of a termination letter obtained by WSN confirmed. The instructor, Darren King, appears to have...| Washington Square News
As this academic year draws to a close, we have lost our confidence in the Mills administration. We are appalled at the discriminatory treatment of our students who are protesting what international courts have determined to be a genocide in Gaza. The NYU administration set a shameful national precedent by calling the NYPD to arrest its own faculty who were attempting to protect students and staff on April 22nd. On that date, and again on May 3rd, the university leadership invited the police ...| Google Docs
NYU said the Office of Student Conduct will begin looking at ways “to improve the quality” of reflection papers imposed on students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza later in the fall, after hundreds of faculty complained about the practice in a letter to university leadership. In the May 15 letter, over...| Washington Square News