Encampment Chaos: Arrests and Disruptions Continue at NYC Universities

Fordham University was free of protestors on May 2 after 15 were arrested the day before, but New York University’s encampment has grown rowdy. “We urge the protesters to pick up their belongings and leave,” NYU spokesperson John Beckman told The Epoch Times in a statement. New York’s most prominent universities have been plagued with unsightly encampments since April despite arrests at City University of New York (CUNY), Fordham University, NYU, and Columbia University. At most protest locations, students didn’t act alone. For example, on April 22 at NYU’s Gould Plaza, fewer than half of the 133 protestors who were arrested were current NYU students or employees, according to Mr. Beckman....