Dartmouth’s Leader Called in Police Quickly. The Fallout Was Just as Swift.
The New York Times
Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up.
As the police arrested student protesters at Dartmouth College, a 65-year-old professor ended up on the ground.
Two student journalists, reporting that night, ended up arrested themselves.
And a bystander, visiting his father who lives near Dartmouth College, found himself with a fractured shoulder.
That was some of the collateral damage after the president of Dartmouth College, Sian Leah Beilock, took unusually swift action and authorized the police action on May 1 to clear an encampment that students had, just two hours earlier, pitched on the college green.
Dr. Beilock, a cognitive scientist who studies why people choke under pressure, has been facing a campus uproar ever since.
Presidents have faced a platter of unappealing choices in handling the student encampments, which have recently popped up all over the country, to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.