Live updates: Students hold encampment for divestment on Main Green
By Owen Dahlkamp , Ryan Doherty , Avani Ghosh and Dana Richie | April 26Students are calling on the University to divest from companies with ties to Israel. Here's what to know.
Owen Dahlkamp is a Section Editor overseeing coverage for University News and Science & Research. Hailing from San Diego, CA, he is concentrating in political science and cognitive neuroscience with an interest in data analytics. In his free time, you can find him making spreadsheets at Dave’s Coffee.
Students are calling on the University to divest from companies with ties to Israel. Here's what to know.
As pro-Palestinian encampments continue to proliferate on college campuses around the country, Jewish students have found themselves in a unique spotlight. Some have participated in these demonstrations. Others have publicly renounced them. But many have more nuanced views that lie somewhere in the ...
The number of students participating in the encampment, which is now on its second day, has risen to over 100. As of 9 a.m., there were about 45 tents on the Main Green.
The Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards has notified approximately 130 students of potential conduct violations for encampment-related activities, University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. Some of the students who received the OSCCS email claim not to be participating ...
At 1:55 p.m., multiple students whose ID information was recorded by the Department of Public Safety officers during the encampment were notified that the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards was processing a student conduct violation, according to an email shared with The Herald.
Approximately 80 students began an indefinite encampment on the Main Green at around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday in a call for the University to divest from companies linked to the Israeli government. The encampment follows similar developments across the U.S. in the past week, most notably at Columbia, Yale ...
Provost Francis Doyle sent an email to community members about University policy surrounding encampments on Tuesday afternoon. The email comes amid a series of national protests calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and on universities to divest from weapons manufacturers and companies ...
Approximately 60 students gathered outside of the Brown-RISD Hillel on Wednesday evening to protest an event hosted by Brown Students for Israel featuring a conversation with Yuval Klein, a search and rescue and intelligence officer for the Israeli Defense Forces.
Brown University admitted 1,623 regular decision applicants to the class of 2028. Its overall acceptance rate for this cycle is 5.2%, the third-lowest in Brown’s history.
The 41 students affiliated with Brown Divest Coalition who were arrested at a Dec. 11 sit-in were placed on University probation on March 6 following disciplinary hearings with the University, marking an escalated University response to the second sit-in for divestment this academic year.