USAC divestment resolution sparks public comments
By Daily Bruin Staff
Feb. 26, 2014 2:26 a.m.
In an effort to allow all commenters to speak, USAC enforced restrictions on the amount of time each speaker was given.
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Over six hundred undergraduates, graduate students and concerned community members attended Tuesday night's USAC meeting to voice their opinions regarding the proposed resolution.
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USAC president John Joanino pauses public comments to make an announcement during the more than seven-hour-long public comment section of Tuesday night's meeting.
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First-year materials science student Sarah Kanee expressed her support toward the proposed resolution.
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Third-year American Indian studies student Arturo Tisnado reads through points he prepared for the public comments portion of Tuesday night's USAC meeting.
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Second-year English and political science student Sarah Abolail voiced assent toward the resolution, written by Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Many UCLA students displayed solidarity with groups aligned with their views.
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Channah Barkhordari, a graduate student studying Iran and Israel, spoke against the divestment resolution.
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Fourth-year biology student Dania Bitar voiced her viewpoints on the divestment proposition on Tuesday night during the USAC meeting.
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Michael Reyes, a fourth-year English student, was one of many students who spoke at Tuesday night's Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting to express his support for the divestment resolution. Hundreds of students spent hours advocating for and against the resolution.
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Fourth-year English major Nida Aslam spoke in favor of the SJP divestment proposal during Tuesday night's USAC meeting.
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Fourth-year indigenous studies student Qui'chi Patlan urged USAC to vote in favor of the proposal.
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Fourth-year neuroscience student Faria Tahir commented in favor of divestment during the public comments segment of the USAC meeting.
