Emory University in Atlanta is the latest school to be gripped with protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
The protests have prompted clashes with police and several arrests, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Students are also protesting the construction of a police training facility nearby, the AJC said.
University President Gregory Fenves told students in an email to remain inside and avoid the quad during the protests.
"These individuals are largely not affiliated with Emory and were disrupting the university as our students finish classes and prepare for finals," Fenves said. "This is completely unacceptable."
Fenves said law enforcement was called in after the protesters refused to leave. Activists and students told the AJC that police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Those arrested will be charged with criminal trespass and assaulting police officers, Emery police Commander Thomas Mann told the AJC.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, a Republican, said the protesters were "pro-terrorist radicals and liberal anarchists."
"These criminals have only one goal: disruption," Jones said. "These heinous acts of antisemitism seen across the country cannot continue. In Georgia, they will be stopped, and these criminals will be punished."
Protesters have been arrested at universities across the country, including at Columbia University in New York, the University of Texas-Austin, and the University of Southern California.
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies enabling its monthslong conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus as graduation nears.
At New York University this week, police said 133 protesters were taken into custody, while over 40 protesters were arrested Monday at an encampment at Yale University.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said the National Guard should be called in if protests continue.
"We have to bring order to these campuses," Johnson said. "We cannot allow this to happen around the country. We are better than this."
Columbia University has canceled in-person classes as protests continue.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.