Counter-protesters waving Israeli flags push forward against the barricade surrounding an ongoing encampment at Dickson Plaza. Some yelled at students inside, and others got into physical confrontations. (Julia Zhou/Photo editor)
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.
This post was updated April 25 at 1:06 a.m.
Organizers led chants and speeches in Dickson Plaza on Thursday afternoon as the protest encampment continued and counter-protests formed.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This post was updated Feb. 19 at 11:00 p.m.
Double Bruin alumnus Nathalie Rayes sat down with the Daily Bruin’s Christopher Buchanan to discuss her newly appointed role as United States ambassador to Croatia.
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