May normally means final exams and graduation ceremonies at universities and colleges, but it’s May 2 and many campuses across the United States are paralyzed in tense standoffs between pro-Palestinian protesters—including some who have erected fortified encampments on quads—and police in riot gear.
At least 300 people were arrested on college campuses from Manhattan to Madison, Wisconsin, and from Dallas to Denver on May 1, mostly while resisting, usually passively, law enforcement efforts to clear away ad hoc occupations of public property.
