Many misconceptions about university anti-war protesters, Emory professor says

After Emory University professor Noëlle McAfee was arrested on April 25 during an anti-war demonstration on the campus of Atlanta's Emory University, she said in the days that followed she has tried to clear up many misconceptions, in her view, of what happened as Georgia State Patrol officers descended on the campus to detain demonstrators.

Protests sprung up at university campuses across the nation after New York Police cleared an encampment of demonstrators on Columbia University's campus on April 18, detaining protesters who called for theuniversity to divest from corporations supporting Israel.

"The problem here is that we are supposed to be at a place where students here understand their roles as citizens of this country, and the reaction of universities is the exact opposite. It tells the wrong lesson. The role of students historically in this country has been to call out injustices and put issues on the agenda for more deliberative processes to take them up and work them out," McAfee said."Instead of being able to do that, they're thrown in jail.

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