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Brandon Drenon Up north in Canada things are also heating up on some university campuses.
Reporting from Texas At McGill University in Montreal, campus officials have requested police assistance to help remove an encampment after protesters refused to leave.
Craig Birckhead-Morton, a senior at Yale University, says Like many pro-Palestinian demonstrators, students gathering at McGill's campus are demanding that the university divests from Israeli companies that are "complicit in the occupation of Palestine."
his final semester in college has been "incredibly stressful" - and not for the typical reasons, like final exams. McGill president Deep Saini told members of the community that "having to resort to police authority is a gut-wrenching decision for any university president".
For the past few weeks, his campus in New Haven, Connecticut "It is, by no means, a decision that I take lightly or quickly. In the president circumstances, however, I judged it necessary."
has been consistently occupied by both protesters and police.
It has made things on
campus “very tense”, he says.
Dozens of students have been arrested for protesting,
including Craig. He was charged with trespassing.
“It’s a whole new level of stress,” he says. “It’s
definitely affected me academically.”
After his arrest, Craig says Yale police kept some of the items
he needed for class later that day.
On the eve of final examinations - on 1 May - his academic progress is stalling.
“I have two final papers due next week, and I’m still behind
on it,” he says.
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