Student Penny Thaman, a sophomore and an activist with Resist WashU, said it isn’t normal: “This did not happen last year. And I think the reasons are pretty obvious.”
Students were scrambling for a place to live and professors were wondering if they d teach again after they were barred from Washington University s campus following an anti-war protest that ended
The students launched the encampment, they said, following similar protests at Columbia University and other colleges and universities across the United States.