Universities are hiring additional security, screening participants and emphasizing that significant disruption from pro-Palestinian protesters will not be tolerated.
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Several North American universities will take steps to ensure that graduation ceremonies scheduled for this weekend go off without a hitch, despite the agitated pro-Palestinian protests. facilities of all country.
For graduation ceremonies to take place, the Universities are hiring additional security guards.monitoring participants at ceremony sites and emphasizing that significant disruption by pro-Palestinian protesters will not be tolerated.
At the same time, they commit to respecting the rights of freedom of expression by designating protest zones.
In one of the most recent incidents, students booed and chanted “Free Palestine.” as University of Utah President Taylor Randall spoke Thursday night.
Randall paused his speech to ask those protesting to leave or be removed.
At the University of Michigan, more than 8,000 graduates and 63,000 spectators are expected for Saturday’s festivities.
There will be a security check and protesters who disturb the order may be expelled.
“At the end of the day, it’s just a graduation. I am ending my university career. As long as it’s peaceful, what can I say?” said Drew Ruchim, a 22-year-old Jewish student.
In a message about the graduation ceremony, Laurie McCauley, Michigan’s chief academic officer, told students and staff that the school respects free speech but that “no one has the right to disrupt university activities.”
oh facilities of Bloomington, Indiana, is designating protest zones outside the sites where graduation ceremonies will be held this Friday.
“It’s unfortunate, because we want this event to be about graduation, not politics,” said Maya Wasserman, a 22-year-old Jewish student.
A week after police detained nearly 100 protesters at Northeastern University, it will celebrate its graduations Sunday at Fenway Park for the fourth consecutive year.
The location will help authorities control crowds and limit what people can bring.
Everyone who enters the venue will have to go through metal detectors, in the ceremony that expects around 50,000 graduates, family and friends.
Protests have rocked many universities in several US cities since the Hamas attack in southern Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took around 250 hostages.
During the war that followed, Israel killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local Hamas-controlled Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.
Source: Observadora
