NYU president Linda Mills avoided discussing the recent arrests of students and faculty at Gould Plaza during the last University Senate meeting of the academic year on Thursday a move student government representatives called a missed “opportunity to clear the air.” Mills ended the meeting, which was moved online, an hour early. The University.
The Student Government Assembly passed a resolution aimed at reaffirming pro-Palestinian speech on campus “with overwhelming support” at a meeting on Thursday, according to student government chair Ryan Carney. The SGA also voted in support of a letter demanding that NYU take “a firm stand against” intimidation or harassment directed at student leaders and organizations,.
Members of the student government proposed two new resolutions one calling for the university to “reaffirm protection” for pro-Palestinian speech and another condemning “endorsement, promotion or excusing” of terrorism on campus at a meeting on Thursday, amid on-campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. The proposals are in response to both hundreds of reported.