Gallery: Students rally against speech by Ben Shapiro
Fourth-year political science student Henry DeGroot, a member of the Socialist Students UCLA, talks to media outlets about what the rally was for.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
The Socialist Students UCLA start chanting to get the rally started.
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Signs were passed out among the attendees.
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Crowds of students surrounded campus visitors to debate with them.
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Arthur Christopher Schaper, a writer and blogger in South Bay, came to UCLA to support Ben Shapiro. While the rally was going on, third-year sociology student Ruby Tucker and third-year acting student Derrick Rose debated current controversial issues.
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Tim Gionet, also known as Baked Alaska, came to the Rally. Gionet has more than 193 thousand followers on his Twitter account.
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Greg Susca , a visitor to the UCLA campus, draped an American flag around himself while donning President Donald Trump's ''Make American Great Again'' hat, which were emblematic of his candidacy.
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Students are shouting up and down Bruin Walk with chants such as ''It isn't a debate when you're just spreading hate.''
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At many points, the rally got more heated.
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Students gathered together to protest the school's use of student tuition money to pay for the event.
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Gionet and UCLA students tried to talk amid the chanting.
(Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
Schaper livestreamed the whole rally as he interacted with various students.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Second-year neuroscience and political science student Kosi Ogbuli was able to conduct a dialogue with the Shapiro supporters for most of the rally.
(Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)
Student organizations planned a unity block party after the rally to decompress through art and creativity.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Students wrote messages on a large piece of paper in front of Janss Steps.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
