Stanford students join pro-Palestinian campus protests
STORY: Several hundred students demonstrated on the campus on Thursday (April 25) before setting up an encampment at White Memorial Plaza in the heart of the university.
By Friday (April 26) morning, about two dozen tents had been erected and about 50 students were congregated there, participating in community teach-in sessions.
The escalation of protests skyrocketed after Columbia University summoned New York police to campus on April 18 to dismantle an encampment of tents set up by protesters there.
While Columbia remains the epicenter of the student protest movement, the national spotlight has shifted to new campuses - from the University of Southern California (USC) to Atlanta's Emory University to Boston's Emerson College - nearly every day this week. USC this week canceled its main May 10 graduation ceremony, saying newly required security measures would have placed excessive delays on crowd control.
