Over the first two days of May, a total of six Swarthmore College students were interim suspended for the creation of a campus encampment earlier in the week. The students in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, were suspended without due process and were told to evacuate from campus, said Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in a 2 May statement.

Of the six students who were temporarily suspended, four were people of color and three were first-generation, low-income students, the statement continued: “This is part of a disturbing trend of Swarthmore exploiting the vulnerabilities of student protesters on the basis of racialized discrimination.” The students on interim suspension are banned from attending college events or stepping foot on campus. Swarthmore SJP did not respond to a request for comment by the publication date.

In a 1 May statement to the campus community, Swarthmore College’s president, Valerie Smith, said that the protesters had vandalized campus property. “Should they continue to fail to disperse and violate the college’s policies and the law,” Smith said, “we will have no choice but to escalate our response as we consider all actions to bring the encampment to an end.”

SJP used social media to encourage activists outside of the college to join the encampment, Smith said, and they ignored repeated requests to vacate Trotter Lawn, where they erected the camp. “We informed students multiple times, both verbally and in writing, that they were violating several policies in the student code of conduct. Students were instructed to disband the encampment and leave Trotter Lawn, and repeatedly warned that failure to do so would lead to interim suspensions.”

Swarthmore College is one of 60 schools under investigation for what the Trump administration considers antisemitic harassment on campus.

A handful of higher-education institutions have started campus encampments this spring in a revival of last year’s pro-Palestinian movement in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza, where at least 62,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October 2023, when roughly 1,100 Israelis were killed. But this year, pro-Palestinian campus protests have been dampened by crackdowns and punitive measures from the Trump administration.

On Yale University’s campus in late April, hundreds of student protesters set up an encampment that dispersed within a couple of days. On 22 April, 44 Yale students were arrested, with some of them facing disciplinary action from the university. And at Tulane University, seven students are facing punitive measures including suspension or expulsion for attending an off-campus protest in New Orleans demanding the release of the pro-Palestinian former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.

On Swarthmore College’s campus, SJP members said that they plan to remain in their encampment: “These repudiations are inconsequential when we remember what we are here for: the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people who have been martyred and displaced yet continue to resist in the face of genocidal violence.”

EUGENE, Ore. – Jasmine Young, a defender who helped Boise State win the 2024 Mountain West Conference title, is transferring to Oregon for her sixth year, head coach Tracy Joyner announced Friday.
 
Joyner has now signed 12 new players who will compete for the Ducks this fall. Young will join transfers Cailin Bloom (California), Kate Cheldelin (Washington), Carys Hall (Alabama), Abella Hunter (UC Davis), Gia Kiesling (UC Davis), Elise Picard (UC Davis) and Bryana Pizarro (Washington State) and incoming freshmen Miya Alamares (Woodland, Calif.), Addisen Boyer (Oak Harbor, Wash.), Izzy Sawyers (San Clemente, Calif.) and Selah Simms (Brentwood, Calif.) in Joyner’s first recruiting class.

 
Jasmine Young, 5-5, 6^th Yr., Defender, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
Los Osos High School / Arizona / Boise State
 
BEFORE OREGON – BOISE STATE
Played three seasons at Arizona and one at Boise State … Was named to the 2024 Mountain West All-Newcomer Team for Boise State as she helped lead the Broncos to the MWC regular season title … College Sports Communicators Academic All-District … Appeared in all 22 matches, including 15 starts … Played seven full 90 minute matches … Registered lone shot of the season at San Jose State (Sept. 29) … Made appearances in the semifinal and title matches of the Mountain West Tournament against San Diego State (Nov. 6) and Utah State (Nov. 9) … Played the full 90 minutes in the title match.
 
BEFORE OREGON – ARIZONA
As a junior in 2023, appeared in five matches, with two starts … Played 283 minutes … Took two shots on the season, one against Colorado and the other against Arizona State … Redshirted the 2022 season … Registered 787 minutes in 18 matches, with 10 starts as a sophomore in 2021 … Took one shot against Texas Tech … As a freshman in 2020 (Covid season), appeared in 14 matches, starting four and totaling 706 minutes … Took two shots with one on goal.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
A graduate of Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. … Lettered all four years in soccer … Team co-captain her senior year … Named Most Valuable Player her senior year … Named All-Conference First Team Baseline League three years in a row … Named All-Conference Second Team Baseline League her freshman year … Named All-CIF Southern Sections First Team her senior year … Named All-SCA Southern Section First Team her sophomore year … Named Defender of the Year her junior and senior year … Played club ball for Strikers FC and Legends FC … Named Excalibur Tournament Champions in 2017.
 
PERSONAL
Born in Upland, Calif. … Father is Edward Young.
 
Coach Joyner on Jasmine Young
“Jasmine is a seasoned veteran. Her tactical awareness, toughness, and experience will add depth to our backline. We are very excited to add such a valuable player and person to our program, and look forward to her impacting our program in her final year.”
 
– www.GoDucks.com –
 

Here are the local athletes who have signed letters of intent in the spring signing period.

De Smet Jesuit

Baseball

Brayden Wakula to Rockhurst University

Basketball

Owen Duff to Quincy University

Cross country and Track & Field

Will Poelker to Mercer University

Soccer

Jack Saladin to Truman State University

Brady Smith to Bellarmine University

Sean Sossou to Quincy University

Landon Weber to Creighton University

Volleyball

Evan Strahlendorf to Southwest Baptist University

Water polo

Cooper Venneman to Mercyhurst University

Eureka

Softball

Brooke Belosi to Ellsworth Community College

Basketball

Jack Cubbage to Washington University

Lacrosse

Belle DeRennaux to University of Montevallo

Wrestling

Addison Neumann to Central Methodist University

Track & Field

Noelle Reed to Missouri Baptist University

Baseball

Michael Siebels to Jefferson County Community College

Incarnate Word Academy

Golf

Gia Moresi to Ava Maria University

Soccer

Khiyah Perkins  to McKendree University

Alyssa Beasly to Grand View University

Dance

Kaitlin Savage to Rockhurst University

Bowling

Meghan Fowlie to Central Missouri State University

Lafayette

Cross country and Track & Field

Michael D’Andrea to Missouri S & T

Daniel D’Andrea to Missouri S & T

Volleyball

Alexander Griffon to McKendree

Ethan Tran to Maryville University

Football

Jake Ference to Northern Illinois University

Wrestling

Hannah Henderson to Oklahoma State University

Aidan Schoen to Grand View University

Baseball

James Dolley to Gateway Community College

Dance

Lydia Werk to Iowa State University

Lacrosse

Drake Smola to Quincy University

Marquette

Baseball

Aaron Akin to Mineral Area Community College

Basketball

Sydney Bode to Hope College

Soccer

Keira Bumiller to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Zoe Bumiller to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Lacrosse

Izzy Homfray to Drury University

Football

Malik Johnson to Missouri Baptist University

Cameron Kossmann to University of Florida

Witt Tatum to Truman State University

Softball

Aubrey Watson to Maryville University

Water polo

Nevaeh Kerber to Wagner College

Parkway Central

Volleyball

William Biggs to Wentworth College

Parkway South

Basketball

Ava McCulla to Missouri S&T

Josie Portell to University of Illinois

Noah Barnes to St. Louis Community College

Football

August Johansen to Carroll University

Mansa Lyons to Culver-Stockton College  

Priory

Football

Davis Weas to DePauw

Tennis

John Varley to Saint Louis University

Esports

Andrew Broder to Maryville

Baseball

Connor Stone to Rockhurst

Westminster Christian Academy

Softball

Paige Branstetter to Truman State University

Soccer

Landon Cassidy to Eastern Illinois University

Cross country and Track & Field

Anna Drochelman to Truman State University

Stunt

Jadyn Mueller to Maryville University

Golf

Sophie Nall to Evangel University

Lacrosse

Lauren Pollack to Calvin University

Volleyball

AJ Snyder to Greenville University

Beach volleyball

Rebekah Thoenen to Arizona Christian University

Baseball

Asher Waitkus to Rockhurst University

Football

Isaiah Warren to University of Central Missouri 

COLUMBIA − Father Tolton girls’ soccer hosted the Osage girls’ soccer team. The game was played at Columbia College.

In the first half, Osage number four, Samantha Deibel scored the first goal of the game. 

Tolton was able to get a free kick penalty. Number 13, Ava Martin scored on the free kick and helped Tolton tie the game. Tolton’s defense kept Osage scoreless through the rest of the game.

Tolton’s number 16, Sierra Poehlmann scored a goal herself. Tolton won the game, 3-1.

Osage plays Southern Boone on Monday and Tolton plays in the central Missouri soccer invitational Friday and Saturday.