Open this photo in gallery: New York police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters outside a student-led encampment at New York University on Monday night, April 22, 2024.Noreen Nasir/The Associated Press Standoffs between pro-Palestinian student protesters and universities grew increasingly tense on both coasts Wednesday as hundreds encamped at Columbia University faced a deadline from the administration to clear out while dozens remained barricaded inside two buildings on a Northern California college campus. Both are part of intensifying demonstrations over Israel’s war with Hamas by university students across the country demanding that schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies that...