Guests who will watch about 6,000 walk across the stage at Franklin Field Monday morning will first need to pass through an airport-style security checkpoint. The Ivy League university's 268th graduation comes just days after 19 people, including 6 students, were arrested when a pro-Palestine group swarmed campus.Police said they thwarted the group's attempt to occupy Fisher-Bennett Hall and found lock picks and metal shields made within the group's belongings.
The Friday night demonstration came a week after police dismantled a pro-Palestine tent encampment on campus and arrested 30 protesters for defiant trespassing.In a letter to the school community, leaders said their outreach efforts with encampment representatives was "met by unreasonable demands and a dangerous escalation of the encampment" and called dismantling the encampment "unfortunate but necessary.
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