Students who were protesting the war in Gaza left their camp at the University of Southern California on Sunday because the police surrounded them and said they would be arrested. At the same time, Northeastern University’s graduation at Boston’s Fenway Park ended without any problems.
Many people are keeping a close eye on what’s happening at USC in Los Angeles and Northeastern in Boston after more than 90 people were arrested at USC and about 100 at Northeastern last month.
Many police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department came to USC around 4 am to help the campus safety officers. The university said that people could get arrested on social media and in person. A video showed some people leaving the protest camp, while police officers formed lines to make others leave. The university said nobody got arrested.
USC President Carol Folt said it was time to take action because the situation on campus was getting worse with areas being blocked and people being treated badly.
Folt said the operation went smoothly. “The campus is opening, students are coming back to get ready for final exams, and preparations for the graduation ceremony are going on. ”
The main graduation ceremony at USC was cancelled, but other graduation activities are still happening.
At UCLA, they’ve made a new job for someone to make sure the campus is safe. UCLA said something on Sunday because people were upset about how they handled protests that ended in a big fight at a pro-Palestinian student camp last week.
At the Northeastern graduation ceremony Sunday, some students held small flags from Palestine and Israel, but there were more students holding flags from India and the US, and other countries. Rebecca Bamidele, a student, asked for peace in Gaza and got some cheers.
The Associated Press counted around 2,500 people who were arrested at about 50 schools since April 18, using information from their own reporting and from universities and law enforcement.
People kept getting arrested over the weekend. On Saturday, 25 people were arrested at the University of Virginia for trespassing. The police clashed with protesters who didn’t want to take down their tents. Police at the Art Institute of Chicago campus removed a pro-Palestinian camp that was set up on Saturday and arrested 68 people for trespassing.
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Anti-war demonstrators depart University of Southern California after arrival of the police
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What you didn’t know about Charles Adu Boahen
Charles Kofi Adu Boahen is a politician and government official from Ghana. He is Ghana’s deputy finance minister and a member of the New Patriotic Party.
He is the son of Albert Adu Boahen, who represented the New Patriotic Party in the 1992 general elections in Ghana.
With over 19 years of expertise in finance, Hon Charles Adu Boahen has worked in corporate finance, investment banking, asset management, and private equity.
He graduated from the University of Southern California with a BSc in Chemical Engineering.
His MBA was from Harvard Business School as well.He attended Achimota School where he had his O Level and Mfantsipim School where he had his ‘A’ Level.
He was the Director and Regional Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for SBSA. He was the Vice President for JP Morgan for over five years and Head of Investment Banking for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to his appointment as a Deputy Minister for Finance, Charles was the CEO of Black Star Advisors (BSA), a boutique investment bank and asset management firm, and Primrose Properties Ghana (PPG), a real estate development company, both of which he founded in 2007.
Prior to that, Charles Adu Boahen was a Director and Regional Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for Standard Bank of South Africa.
Prior to Standard Bank, he was with JP Morgan for over five years as Vice President and Head of Investment Banking for Sub-Saharan Africa where he was responsible for developing the Investment banking business across sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa, he was also the JPM Senior Country Representative for Nigeria.
After Business School, Adu Boahen joined the $400mm AIG African Infrastructure Fund as an Investment Officer.
After college, he joined Salomon Smith Barney, now part of Citigroup, on Wall Street in their Investment Banking Division where his responsibilities included various corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions assignments, primarily in the Chemicals and Energy sector.
Charles Adu Boahen has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California.