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The clock is ticking as May commencement ceremonies near, putting added pressure on schools to clear demonstrations.
At Columbia University , protesters defiantly erected a tent encampment where many are set to graduate in front of families in just a few weeks .
At Indiana University Bloomington , police with shields and batons shoved into protesters and arrested 33 .
At Emerson College in Boston , 108 people were arrested at an alleyway encampment by early Thursday .
University officials pull back barricades and allow demonstrators onto the main square beneath the school’s iconic clock tower.
Video shows officers using a stun gun on one protester they had pinned to the ground.
The university says objects were thrown at officers and they deployed “chemical irritants” as a crowd control measure.
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