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Student protests over Gaza war are forcing Penn and other U.S. universities to face ‘impossible’ demands

It’s the hardest public-facing challenge that school leaders have to had to confront in recent years.

Wharton and Penn Engineering junior Noah Rubin speaks during a “no hate on campus” rally at the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday. Rubin testified in March in Washington D.C. at an Education and the Workforce Committee roundtable chaired by U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) along with other Jewish students from colleges around the country, about their experiences with antisemitism on campus.
Wharton and Penn Engineering junior Noah Rubin speaks during a “no hate on campus” rally at the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday. Rubin testified in March in Washington D.C. at an Education and the Workforce Committee roundtable chaired by U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) along with other Jewish students from colleges around the country, about their experiences with antisemitism on campus.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer