Encampments remain at University of Chicago, DePaul [Video]

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — As talks between the University of Chicago and a group of pro-Palestinian students camped out on the quad stalled on Monday, 120 faculty and staff members showed support for the protesters.

History professor Faith Hillis said the students behind what’s been called the “Popular University Encampment” are not impeding classes and have been nonviolent in their protests.

“Not everyone likes the message that the students had for us, and not everyone wants to hear it, but discomfort is not the same as disruption,” Hillis said.

Philosophy professor Anton Ford echoed students’ demands and called on the university leadership to both divest and give up on staying neutral on the issue of the way, citing a decades-old university document.

“Even the Kelvin Report makes room for exceptional moments, when the university’s ownership of property, including its financial investments, might have to be reassessed because they are incompatible with ‘paramount social values,’” …