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https://theconversation.com/commencement-isnt-just-about-awarding-degrees-and-cancellations-leave-students-disconnected-and-disillusioned-229425
#News #CampusProtests @academicchatter #HigherEd
Commencement isn’t just about awarding degrees – and cancellations leave students disconnected and disillusioned
Rites of passage are important. They do not merely celebrate the transition to a new state – they actively create this new state in the eyes of society, an anthropologist writes.The Conversation
> Journalists see confrontations, arrests and disruption as more newsworthy than peaceful protests
> Student efforts to educate their campuses were largely ignored while the encampments made the front pages.
> Universities and police have dedicated media teams ready to give quotes, students don’t
https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172
#Gaza #Israel #campusprotests
Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.The Conversation
"In the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestine campus protests in the US have been followed closely.
“We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” said Nevin Abu Shahma, 39, who fled to Rafah from northern Gaza early in the war"
#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #USPolitics #CampusProtests
‘I was happy they still stand beside us’: Palestinians in Rafah on US campus protests
Word of the demonstrations that have spread across the west has cheered some in Gaza’s southernmost cityGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:
"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."
https://www.utfa.org/sites/default/files/2024-04-30_utfa_letter_re_demonstrations.pdf
More coverage from the LA Times on the horrific attacks by the counter-protestors of the #UCLA Gaza-solidarity encampment.
#Gaza #Palestine #ShalomSalaam #Peace #Israel #FreeSpeech #CampusProtests
UCLA campus protests: Pro-Palestinian camp attacked, classes canceled
Counterprotesters tried to tear down the barricades surrounding the encampment. Some on campus said they were stunned it took so long before officials stepped in.Safi Nazzal (Los Angeles Times)
Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).
#Gaza #campusprotests
Faculty Letters to the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost
Faculty Letters to the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost in Response to the Events of April 22 April 26, 2024 Dear President Mills and Interim Provost Dopico, We, the undersigne…NYU Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Live updates on the #USC Free Gaza encampment from the Daily Trojan. The latest:
3:15 p.m.
Christina Chkarboul, Associate Managing Editor
Department of Public Safety officers are now circling the perimeter of Alumni Park wearing helmets. Los Angeles Police Department officers appear to be heading to the site of the demonstration from off of the west side of campus.
#LosAngeles #CampusProtests #FreeGaza #Palestine
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/24/gaza-solidarity-occupation-to-at-alumni-park-live-updates/
