Falleti wrote that she is “no longer confident of my ability to work collaboratively with our administration that has sent in the police to arrest its own students, staff, and faculty.”

Approximately 33 individuals were arrested at the encampment early Friday morning, a University spokesperson wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian. As of 9:05 a.m., all individuals had been released.

Around five Penn employees could be seen carrying out tents, signs, flags, backpacks, and other belongings from the encampment and loading them into a trash truck parked on Locust Walk. 

University administrators explained that they acted after the campus had been “under threat” for too long a period of tine.

The arrests came nearly two week after pro-Palestinian activists pitched approximately 40 tents on College Green.

The police response comes on the 16th day since the Gaza Solidarity Encampment began and the second day since it expanded.

“The University of Pennsylvania has an obligation to their safety,” he said. “It is past time for the university to act, to address this, to disband the encampment, and to restore order and safety on campus.”

A letter addressed to one of the disciplined individuals writes that their participation has contributed to “increasingly unsafe conditions” and “a situation that poses a threat to order and safety.”

Measures include airport-style security, a no-bag policy, and PennCard checks for all graduates to enter the field. 

The main entrance to Van Pelt Library is closed to everyone — including Penn students — as of 8:04 p.m. Penn Hillel is also currently on lockdown, according to a source familiar with the matter. 

At around 7:30 p.m., members began moving barriers and at least eight tents onto the east side of College Green as a crowd of 200 people chanted “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.” 

A second encampment has appeared with multiple tents to the left of the current encampment on Penn's College Green — the first expansion of the demonstration since it began two weeks ago.

The letter, which was acquired by The Daily Pennsylvanian, calls on Jameson to “act immediately,” even if it means inviting the Philadelphia Police Department to campus.

The encampment spokesperson said that Penn’s administration “doubled down on their oppression toward the encampment” and referred nine students for disciplinary action yesterday. 

Guest columnist Ben Messafi argues the first step to proper civil discourse and de-escalation on campus is to end the encampment.

Guest columnist Zack Ben-Ezra calls on Penn leadership to fairly and even handedly uphold free speech and university policy in a viewpoint-neutral manner.

Rachel Stein writes a letter to the editor in response to Tulia Falleti's recent guest column.