Dunn Meadow

Professors, students and affinity groups on campus rallied against threats to higher education such as student deportations, cuts to science and the humanities and the Trump administration’s targeting of campus speech.

IU Divestment Coalition members gathered outside the Monroe County Justice Center Tuesday as two protesters arrested for disorderly conduct appeared in court and were assigned a public defender.

An organization devoted to combating antisemitism urged Indiana University to investigate what it calls a “disturbing act of targeted harassment” towards Jewish students.

After protests last spring against the war in Gaza and a 100 day occupation of the meadow, IU said in August that the university needed to fix damage to turf and subsurface irrigation.

Indiana University officials say restoration work continues at Dunn Meadow, and they expect the traditional assembly ground for protests and gatherings to re-open before the semester ends.

It's unclear when Dunn Meadow will reopen.

IU paid Cooley LLP $400,000 for a “post action review”, according to a summary on the university’s procurement website.

The university’s new expressive activity policy came into effect Thursday. Police said they’ll clear the remaining items from the meadow, and protesters said they don’t plan to stop them.

It will free the university’s hand in addressing the Dunn Meadow encampment and will affect the International Graduate Workers Coalition if it decides to picket again in the fall. 

State Police chatter on the ground and from atop the Indiana Memorial Union shows that the ISP planned to arrest student organizers Bryce Greene and Aidan Khamis ahead of time.