Reactions: Guests respond to Eisgruber and Calhoun’s statements on protesting

April 28, 2024 1 min read

Zeke Douglas Rosenthal, Edward Yingling, and Wyatt Browne

Excerpt: On Wednesday, in response to a wave of national campus encampments in response to the war in Gaza, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun wrote in an email to the student body that “any individual involved in an encampment, occupation, or other unlawful disruptive conduct who refuses to stop after a warning will be arrested and immediately barred from campus.”  

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