'Student arrests will be my final college memory'
By Brandon Drenon
In January 2020, they were seniors in high school. Graduation was just around the corner. But so was a deadly pandemic.
By mid-March, Covid had upended daily life and many students were forced to spend their final months of school at home. Proms were cancelled.
Four years later, those same students are now in college about to graduate. And once again, they face a similar souring of what would normally be a festive occasion.
Pro-Palestinian protests have erupted at over 130 college campuses across the US, as organisers demand their universities cut ties from companies linked to Israel.
They’ve set up vast encampments in the middle of university grounds and defied multiple warnings to disperse, sparking police raids and over 2,000 arrests.
Three seniors explain how they’re dealing with this tumultuous ending of their academic careers – for the second time.
Madison Morris, 22, University of Texas
