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US colleges have been using law enforcement – along with academic suspensions and, for at least one school, expulsion – to try to bring to heel student demonstrations.
With tension mounting over an encampment in support of Palestinians at New York’s Columbia University, police strode onto campus this month and arrested more than 100 demonstrators.
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier criticized violence sparked by anti-Israel protests on campus in March, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that's not free speech.