UPDATE: ISU threatens anti-war demonstrators with possible suspensions for breaking campus policies [Video]

UPDATE: Illinois State University administrators ordered student protestors, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, to remove tents and signs from the gazebo on the quad.

Demonstrators set up camp about noon on Tuesday, but about six-hours later, administrators distributed warnings that the students might be suspended for violating school policy only a week before final exams.

ISU also sent out a statement to the news media saying the school “steadfastly upholds the right to freedom of expression, and the institution maintains clear policies and procedures to responsibly manage the time, place, and manner of activities in our campus facilities and spaces.”

Throughout the day, the university said its staff “diligently” reached out to participants about the school’s policies.

“Demonstrators were informed remaining in the quad and use of hammocks is permitted but that erecting tents and other structures is not permitted. The participants were directed to dismantle tents and structures …