Why Penn became the hotspot for Gaza protests in Philly instead of Temple, Drexel, or La Salle

  • 📰 PhillyInquirer
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 43 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 21%
  • Publisher: 68%

Philadelphia-Campus-Encampments-Reasons News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Colleges that have a history of protest are more likely to have encampments. How welcoming administrations are to protest and the ability of students to risk arrest are among other factors.

Penn, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Rutgers have had pro-Palestinian encampments, but Penn State, Villanova, and West Chester did not.

“But sometimes repression leads to more activism,” said Robert Cohen, a New York University professor who has studied the history of protest. “It’s not a straight line. It’s not an easy formula. It’s complicated.” Students were told that they would face academic probation and possible suspension if they erected an encampment, said Stephanie Sena, an anti-poverty faculty fellow at Villanova’s law school.“Students expressed concern because they are at Villanova on scholarship and if they got suspended, they could have that scholarship taken away,” she said “It’s very important to understand students in the 60s didn’t have tuition the way we do, or student debt the way we do.

And Villanova’s identity as a Catholic institution also is significant, she said, asserting that it is more conservative and not as prone to progressive activism.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 81. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Inside nearly a century of the historic Penn Relays victory wheel: ‘It’s truly Penn’The 'wheel' handed out to winners at the relays and its roots can be traced back to its design in 1925.
Source: PhillyInquirer - 🏆 81. / 68 Read more »

Philly Police have cleared Penn’s Pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested 33 protestersThe protesters, who have remained peaceful, are part of a national movement on U.S. college campuses calling for universities to divest from entities benefitting from the war in Gaza.
Source: PhillyDailyNews - 🏆 89. / 67 Read more »

Inside Penn’s transfer center | Philly Health InsiderAlso, hospital safety grades and gene editing in kids.
Source: PhillyInquirer - 🏆 81. / 68 Read more »

Dozens arrested at Penn, MIT in latest crackdowns on Gaza protestsPolice dismantled encampments and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on Friday morning, in the latest crackdowns on protests roiling U.S. campuses.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »

Penn's Gaza protest encampment expands despite order to disband 2 weeks agoThe protestors are demanding that Penn disclose its investments and cut ties with businesses that support Israel.
Source: 6abc - 🏆 250. / 63 Read more »

Student protests over Gaza war are forcing Penn and other U.S. universities to face ‘impossible’ demandsThe national wave of campus protests over the war in Gaza represent the hardest public-facing challenge that university leaders have confronted in recent years, experts say
Source: PhillyInquirer - 🏆 81. / 68 Read more »