Source: In These Times
by Adam Federman
“In April 24, as students were wrapping up their semester at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, the school’s provost convened an ad hoc committee to discuss a planned protest against the war in Gaza that was set to begin the following day. It was less than a week after Columbia University had called in the NYPD to break up an encampment in Manhattan, arresting more than 100 students, and tensions were running high nationwide. Already, over the winter, Indiana University had suspended a professor for sponsoring a talk by the student Palestine Solidarity Committee and canceled a major retrospective exhibition — in the works for years — by the 87-year-old Palestinian American painter and IU alumnus Samia Halaby, an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation. On the eve of the April protest, without informing faculty or students, the provost’s committee … rewrote a longstanding policy governing speech and assembly on campus.” (06/20/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/campus-protest-gaza-indiana-university-columbia-chicago