As dozens of law enforcement officers stormed California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt last week, Rouhollah Aghasaleh, a professor of education, was giving students a lesson on what teargas feels like.
The students were part of a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had occupied two buildings on campus for a week, part of a nationwide protest movement on college campuses over the war in Gaza and its mounting humanitarian crisis. Aghasaleh was the sole faculty member among the Cal Poly students.
