well, professor derrick peterson, thank you for talking to us. we appreciate it very much. so as you can see, this is an ongoing protest. i asked some of the students there whether they were going to remain here after graduation. and one student who was graduating told us she was indeed going to stay there. the encampments will almost certainly be diminished in size after graduation. some students will have to go home, but some of them and says they're going to stay until their demands are met. of course it is heading towards the end of the academic eva encouraging seem to start that from both students on faculty in michigan. thank you so much, much on henry. well, that's now speak to phil about. he joins us from the university of california, irvine. so i believe you are then uncommon, which has been much less controversial, this community than the one that you see today, which is just about an hour away where we've seen so much confrontation and violence and recent days. a yeah, and you might call this like a, assessed a protest. so what we saw in your satellite because th

we talked to one of the professors who was attending one of those ceremonies, professor derrick peterson. here's what he had to say. and it's usually a running that in other institutions thus far, not here, but in other institutions. university administrators have taken it upon themselves with very little reason to shut down students voices, to arrest and detain and break up the cabinets. that is served the purpose, really of enlivening campus debate as opposed to closing it. that what if anything, universities should be provoking informing and driving public discussion and not in a sort of imposing a top down view of consensus, an order, the counselor and administrators dreams about what he had. diversity ought to be. students are full of ferment and opinions. there, they've got agendas from a variety of points of view and it's important that universities would honor that diversity and not try to for the big graduation ceremony. here at the university of michigan happens on saturday. that's where an 8000 graduates will be celebrated by a crowd of over 60000. to get into that ceremony, t

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