Bellantoni on Campus Protests: Many Students Say They Will Stick Around

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BELLANTONI: "So every college campus is a little different. Usc you have students, probably a few hundred, who have an encampment outside. They have not occupied it buildings. We are likely clearing that via lapd today. There are journalists covering today and have been the only press allowed to witness what is going on, because the campuses closed to outside visitors. The students we have talked to, I’ve talked to some personally, and what they are recording but many of them say they will stick around, but many of them have plans to go home for the summer. Why we don’t allow outside visitors you’re not going to see people and start camping that aren’t usc students. I will say a lot of these students are from the areas affected. We have many students who have said they have lost family members in Gaza. We have a lot of students who have a connection to the terrorist attack on October 7th. There’s a lot of really deep feelings and pain there. We don’t know as much whether they will stick around. Commencement is Friday."