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April 26, 2024 12:04 p.m.
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)
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.
By Dylan Winward
Campus
April 25, 2024 11:17 p.m.Counter-protesters gathered Thursday afternoon and evening in Dickson Plaza, waving Israeli flags to demonstrate against an ongoing encampment in support of Palestine.
The encampment, led by UCLA’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and the UC Divest Coalition, began early that morning – just as the war in Gaza passed its 200th day.
By Anna Dai-Liu
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April 25, 2024 4:57 p.m.Examining parallels to 1985 student calls for divestment from South Africa
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.
By Matthew Royer
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April 25, 2024 11:19 a.m.UCLA community organizes encampment in response to national call for escalation
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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.
By Dylan Winward and Catherine Hamilton
International
April 9, 2024 6:27 p.m.UCLA researchers find sea urchins aid in maintenance of coral reefs
A research team including UCLA doctoral students and professors found that sea urchins help maintain the resilience of coral reefs despite human activity.
In the study published in February, researchers measured algae height in Pacific coral reefs both in the presence and absence of herbivorous sea urchins and fish, determining that even when most fish had disappeared, a robust urchin population helped reduce algal height and improve reef health.
By Paco Bacalski
Campus
March 17, 2024 8:34 p.m.USAC passes resolution condemning the ethnic Armenian genocide in Artsakh
The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution March 5 condemning the genocide of the ethnic Armenians in Artsakh, a region also known as Nagorno-Karabakh.
By Aimee Zhang
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March 3, 2024 6:41 p.m.Following repatriation efforts, Fowler Museum returns cultural relics to Ghana
This post was updated March 3 at 10:27 p.m.
Members of the Asante Kingdom welcomed representatives of the Fowler Museum to Ghana to return several cultural items that were unethically collected over a century before.
By Christopher Buchanan
Campus
Feb. 29, 2024 7:11 p.m.UCLA Burkle Center hosts forum on foreign policy, 2024 presidential election
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations hosted a forum of political science graduate students Monday to discuss the importance of foreign policy ahead of the 2024 United States presidential election.
By Sam Mulick
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Feb. 21, 2024 11:22 p.m.USAC passes resolution endorsing Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement
A Tuesday night move by the Undergraduate Students Association Council to vote on a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel quickly turned into a tense standoff, reflecting rising campus tensions over the ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip.
By Shaanth Kodialam
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