Concerns about the impact of the Israeli-Hamas war and the growing death toll in Gaza have led to protests on college campuses, including at Dartmouth, where earlier arrests have prompted eight students to go on a hunger strike “for Palestine and campus justice”. Two of those on hunger strike — Roan V. Wade ’25 and Kevin Engel ’27 — had been arrested on October 28 for occupying the front lawn of Parkhurst Hall, the college’s administration building. According to President Sian Leah Beilock, peaceful protests are allowed, but “the situation changed when [Wade and Engel] threatened in writing to ‘escalate and take further action,’ including ‘physical action,’ if their demands were not met.”