American campuses have not looked like this in more than 50 years, and never for the reasons they do now. What has stirred students to risk their safety, enrollment, and future careers on hundreds of campuses this spring is the deaths of others, the 34,000 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 and took 240 hostage. This is the conflict that has thrust America’s colleges back into position as the crucible in which the nation works out its moral questions. America’s student journalists have been the ones to document the resulting conflagration—especially on campuses that barred the professional press from bearing witness. TIME reached out to student photojournalists from across the country to tell this story. What they saw, at the link in bio. Photograph by James Schaap (@schaapening) for The GW Hatchet (@gwhatchet)