Encampment leaders unsatisfied after first meeting with McGill administration

So student protesters at the pro Palestinian encampment on McGill campus just gave a news conference, basically saying that they had a first meeting with the McGill administration in hopes of negotiating, you know, leaving and negotiating also about their demands. And what they said was that basically the talks weren’t very fruitful. They wanted to have a clear, concrete, they say, timeline of, you know, how the university would respond to their demands. And and putting that in motion, and they said that that did not happen at this first meeting. They did say that they’re expecting there there will be other meetings. But at this one, they said that the administration was sort of vague about what they could do in terms of answering their demands. What are their demands? They’re asking that the university divest from companies with ties in Israel. They’re also asking that the university cut ties with universities in Israel. And they’re asking the university not to take disciplinary action against students who’ve participated in the protest. They’re also asking for the university to condemn the current war in Gaza and to ask the government to cease all of its arms deals with Israel. And so the students said, essentially, that they are staying put. They’re willing to even expand the encampment as long as their demands are not met, especially the divestment demand. There was also an assistant professor at McGill, Daniel Schwartz, who works in the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. He spoke at the news conference, said that there were, there is more than 100 professors from universities across the city who are standing behind the students and support their actions. And he said he was optimistic about this first step of, you know, this first meeting that the students had with McGill.