At UNC last week, 36 members of a pro-Palestinian “Gaza solidarity encampment” were charged with trespassing. The encampment, similar to those at dozens of other universities, stood on campus for four days before administrators and police ordered it to be disbanded.

A meeting between pro-Palestinian protesters and representatives from Colorado's Department of Higher Education turned into a lockdown of sorts. The Community College of Denver has already relocated its graduation ceremony.

College commencement season is off to a rough start. After a weekend full of student protests, Columbia University, the face of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, canceled its main graduation ceremony,

UNC Students for Justice in Palestine is calling for faculty to withhold grades until the university lifts suspensions of student protestors.

A similar call in 2018 related to protests surrounding the Silent Sam Confederate monument did not materialize.