Statement by WGSS
May 6, 2024
We in the WGSS program want to register our distress and outrage at the administration's response to the Gaza demonstration on May 1, and our solidarity with the students and faculty who were arrested or otherwise harmed. The President invited police onto campus to a peaceful demonstration, apparently with no limits on their treatment of the group. We are particularly horrified that a SWAT team, complete with guns and a police dog, were summoned to the campus—we note the tragic irony that this event was close to the 54th anniversary of the Kent State massacre.
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