As pro-Palestinian protests continued to escalate across the country, officials and students at Brown University set a rare example on Tuesday: They made a deal. Demonstrators agreed to dismantle their encampment at Brown, which had been removed by Tuesday evening, and university officials said they would discuss, and later vote on, divesting funds from companies connected to the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.In Northwestern University‘s suburban Chicago campus , two unoccupied tents remained, surrounded by abandoned folding chairs, cases of bottled water and other supplies. Student organisers and the school announced an agreement late Monday to curb protest activity – in return for a new advisory committee on university investments and other commitments. The agreement lets protests continue through June 1 but bars all tents except one for aid supplies. It also prevents people without ties to Northwestern from participating.