On university campuses across the country, pro-Palestine encampments have taken hold as students call for their schools to disclose and divest from companies with financial investments in or economic connections to military companies with ties to Israel. These encampments come after months of protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel continues its incursion that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to the Associated Press. The latest conflict started after the October 7 Hamas attack, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 200 taken hostage.
At schools from coast to coast and across the heartland, university protests and encampments have been met with resistance from police, government officials, and even university organizational bodies. Amid this complex and often chaotic landscape, school newspapers have become a direct source for coverage on the ground, with access that mainstream media may be…