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‘Crisis on Campus’ Doc From ‘Frontline’ Examines Recent College Protests Over Gaza War: ‘We Kept Following That Story as It Developed’
Latest 'Frontline' documentary 'Crisis on Campus' examines college protests over Gaza war at Harvard, Columbia
“It quickly became clear that both Harvard and Columbia embodied so many of the issues at play, we kept going back to both schools over the months, speaking to students and faculty, to people on all sides of the divide, and that gave us a chance to really understand the debates, to look at accountability and motivations and the stakes, and to really see the evolution of story and its impact.” “Crisis on Campus” features on-the-ground interviews with subjects including: pro-Palestinian Harvard students, UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Carol Christ; North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who chaired congressional hearings over antisemitism on college campuses; Christopher Rufo, a conservative political activist who has been critical of the universities’ response to the conflict; and billionaire former Columbia donor Leon Cooperman. “One of the things we were able to show in the documentary is how the intensity of the conflict on campuses — the challenge that university officials faced — was also fueled by powerful political and financial interests, not just the war itself.”
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