Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans...

Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer

NEW YORK — In a story published April 23, 2024, about Gaza war protests at colleges, The Associated Press erroneously reported, based on information from Yale University President Peter Salovey, that 60 protesters, including 47 students, were arrested there. Yale officials corrected the numbers Wednesday to 48 arrests total, four of them not Yale students.

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