Campus police made the students — members of Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society — take down a handful of tents that were set up for a mere five minutes on the grassy space.

Cal Poly Humboldt will remain closed through at least the weekend after pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police, and demonstrators occupied buildings and refused to leave.

An occupation of Siemens hall at Cal Poly Humboldt that started Monday is ongoing. Every entrance to the building was barricaded Tuesday morning, after activists successfully kept out a line of police in riot gear from evacuating students.

“You’re doing great!” says physicist & Columbia alum Eric Lerner, who participated in the 1967 anti-Vietnam War protest occupations that roiled the university. Both Chapel Hill & Yale students have now also erected Gaza solidarity encampments! @ColumbiaSJP @UNC_SJP @yalies4pali pic.twitter.com/UX2m9dXsot

Columbia University says that it is making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and the university has extended a deadline to clear out

National political leaders ratcheted up the pressure for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to step down on Wednesday as pro-Palestinian protests continued at the school’s New York campus and spread to colleges across the country.