Tag: New York University

US Campus Protests Wane After Police Crackdowns, Stern White House Order

May 4, 2024 admin

Schools officials said that more than 200 people were arrested. New York: Pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked US campuses for weeks were more muted Friday after a series of clashes with police, mass arrests and a stern White House directive to restore order. Police in Manhattan cleared an encampment at New York University after sunrise,…

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New York Students Admit They Have No Idea What They Are Protesting

April 26, 2024 admin

Students at universities across the US are staging encampments to protest the war in Gaza. A video circulating online shows two anti-Israel protesters at New York University struggling to explain the purpose of the demonstrations. The clip, posted on X by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, shows a young woman at an NYU protest…

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After mass arrests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. college campuses

April 23, 2024 admin

Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped…

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A freak DNA change 25 million years ago is why humans lack tails

April 9, 2024 admin

One of the most striking anatomical features in apes, and which sets them apart from monkeys, is the absence of a tail. All mammals have a tail at some point during their development, but apes – including humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons – lose them in utero, leaving behind three to five vestigial…

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