The protesters did not establish new tent camps or demonstrated against the war in Gaza at Columbia University on Thursday, as planned.
NBC News reported on Wednesday that a group planned to establish tent camps on the main campus of New York City School on Thursday afternoon.
It is likely that the camps inflate tension at the Ivy League school, which for weeks has been in the center of a strip and loosen between the federal government and its students.
They would have been the first cities of tents at the University since the students took over a building last year and since the Trump administration adopted an aggressive approach to aim at what it describes as a failure to deal with anti -Semitism on university campus.
More than 100 protesters gathered on Tuesday at a community center in the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn to coordinate tent camps in Columbia for this week. The organizers, whose identities are still unknown, did everything possible to hide their plans.
NBC News obtained a recording of the meeting, which revealed that the students were planning a camp on Thursday on the University Campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and a second camp on Friday on the nearby Manhattanville campus.
It is not clear if the camp planned for Friday will continue.
Instead of protests on Thursday, the scene on the campus included students who enjoy one of the first warm days in New York City this spring. Dozens of students place beach towels, selfies were broken under the sun and threw themselves around Frisbees.
However, there were signs of what was expected to bring the day.
Outside the university doors at 116th Street and Broadway, several New York police officers gathered, but they left at 2 in the afternoon, an hour after the protests would be expected.
A handful of people who seemed to be security guards in plains rolled the planned site of Thursday’s protest before it was expected to start.
Donovan Cole, 27 years old, Ph.D. Students studying philosophy and education said that the attitude of the student body towards protests seems to have changed from the camps a year ago. Gone are the days when the students felt free to establish tents, take care of the academic buildings and march for days, as the past spring did, he said.
“Obviously, there was an antagonistic relationship between the student body and the institution last year. But in the center of that it was a kind of faith … that both were participating in at least a certain degree of good faith,” he said. “The student body has felt that this is no longer the case and, instead of producing a kind of stronger protest, it has produced a real legitimate fear in the student body.”
Last month, the Trump administration began to finish federal research subsidies in several of the country’s most prestigious universities, demanding significant changes in how schools operate. The administration has argued that universities could not protect Jewish students in war protests.
Columbia was the first university to which the administration was addressed. He granted several government requests, including that he adjusts his admission process, implements “greater institutional neutrality” and hires three dozen new security officers.
The administration challenged in a similar way to Harvard University, which rejected its proposals and demanded the Federal Government.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions that would apply a stricter supervision of foreign donations to universities and change the way they are accredited.
Immigration authorities have stopped at least three Columbia students in recent weeks. Among them was the graduated student Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead the students’ protests last year.
Approximately 45 minutes after the protest was expected in Columbia, the defenders of pro-palestinian students affiliated with City College of New York announced on social networks that they were organizing a protest in the nearby public school.
It is not clear if the protesters who had intended to be part of Columbia’s planned camp were among the approximately 50 people who gathered outside the doors of CCNY on Thursday afternoon, with Palestinian Keffiyehs and Keffiyehs.
However, a student protest group affiliated with Columbia shared the publication of the CCNY group on social networks.
CCNY closed its doors and seemed to start banning students to enter the campus while the protest occurred.
On Tuesday, a multitude of protesters at Yale University established a handful of tents on the campus before they dissolved a few hours later.
