Rutgers’ Pro-Palestinian Encampment Ends With University Yielding to Protesters

A four-day encampment protest at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University has concluded peacefully after university administrators conceded to all but two of the pro-Palestinian protesters’ demands while warning them that further occupation of campus grounds would be met with force. In a university-wide email, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway said his administration scrambled to reschedule and relocate dozens of finals following a call by the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter to stage an early-morning rally on May 2 “specifically intended to disrupt finals.” “Students are rightly concerned about their ability to take exams in this environment,” Mr. Holloway wrote, adding that he met with the students representing the protest and gave them a deadline of 4 p.m. on May 2 to clear the encampment they set up in the heart of the campus....