Students walk out from Yale graduation

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University's commencement exercises on Monday, protesting the Israeli attacks in Gaza, Yale's financial ties to weapons makers and its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Ivy League campus, as arrests linked to campus demonstrations surpassed the 3,000 mark nationwide.

The walkout began as Yale President Peter Salovey started to announce the traditional college-by-college presentation of candidates for degrees on the grounds of Yale's Old Campus, filled with thousands of graduates in their caps and gowns.

At least 150 students seated near the front of the audience stood up together, turned their backs to the stage and paraded out of the ceremony.