Colleges around the U.S. implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency Monday, as police made more arrests at the University of Texas and Columbia University said it was beginning to suspend students who defied an ultimatum to leave the encampment there by an afternoon deadline. Protesters who returned to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday were quickly greeted by dozens of law enforcement officers, many in riot gear. Six proteste
Those too young to remember the tumultuous 1960s might be under the impression that what is happening in American universities now is a revival of the spirit of what became known as the international student revolution. The sight of campuses shut down by protesters fighting with police, of university studies suspended by occupations and chanting demonstrators, and, most notably, the infectiousness of the resistance that has spread rapidly through the nation’s academic life: surely this must be a