Participants of the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA said they spent Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning maintaining their structures without knowing how the UCLA administration would react. Read more...
Photo: Tents in the ongoing UC Divest and Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA encampment sit in darkness in front of a brightly lit Royce Hall. The encampment began Thursday morning in Dickson Plaza. (Dylan Winward/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Most students in Chemistry 14A are around 19 years old, fresh out of high school and ready to take on the challenge of college. Max Steinberg, on the other hand, was nine. Read more...
Photo: Max Steinberg stands in a corridor in the Math Sciences Building. The fifth-year mathematics student is graduating in June with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. (Ella Greenberg Winnick/Daily Bruin staff)
Editor’s note: This post was updated on March 14 at 2:09 p.m. to provide retroactive anonymity to a source due to safety concerns. Organizers led chants and speeches in Dickson Plaza on Thursday afternoon as the protest encampment continued and counter-protests formed. Read more...
Photo: A participant in the encampment points to the left as they stand amid other protesters. Those in the encampment, which began Thursday morning, participated in events such as a Passover Seder. (Ella Coffey/Daily Bruin)
Students and community members had mixed feelings about the ongoing pro-Palestine encampment on campus, with some expressing support while others said it made them uncomfortable. Hundreds of people gathered with tents outside Royce Hall on Thursday to call for the UC to divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Read more...
Armenian and Iranian sororities hosted a panel to discuss the impacts of military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and government crackdowns in Iran on the mental health of UCLA community members. Read more...
Photo: Members of a panel to discuss the impact of recent international events in Artsakh and Iran are pictured. The panel – hosted by two cultural sororities – took place April 18. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated April 25 at 1:05 a.m. Student and faculty calls for divestment Thursday echoed the demands made against apartheid in South Africa in 1985, which led to divestment from the UC a year later. Read more...
Photo: Student and faculty calls for divestment from South Africa in 1985 hold similar demands to protests launched Thursday against Israel by students and supported by faculty. (Daily Bruin file photos. Photo illustration by Mia Tavares/Assistant Design director)
This story is developing. Follow along for updates. This post was updated April 26 at 12:53 a.m. UCLA students and community members set up around 30 tents in front of Royce Hall on Thursday morning to demand UC divestment as the war in Gaza passes its 200th day. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and the UC Divest Coalition at UCLA, the encampment represents solidarity with Palestine, said Annie, a spokesperson for the organizations who did not provide their last name for safety reasons. Read more...
Photo: An encampment in front of Royce Hall is pictured. Protesters demonstrated with around 30 tents Thursday morning to demand that the UC divest from the war in Gaza, which has passed its 200th day. (Darlene Sanzon/Daily Bruin)
