To the editor: Protesters complain that their participation in campus demonstrations final spring is now snarling their tutorial progress and burdening them with crimson tape and inconveniences.
However what in regards to the results their protests and encampments had on college students, school and employees whose lessons turned distant, exams have been delayed, and whose analysis was interrupted or halted? What of the employees left with the massive job of cleanup and restoration of trashed and vandalized buildings and areas?
Because the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 bloodbath approaches and the brand new tutorial 12 months strikes ahead, college students resentful that the campus conduct codes apply to them would possibly ask themselves what their encampments, takeovers, checkpoints, defacements, shutdowns and sometimes humiliating intimidations completed.
Solely 8% of younger voters not too long ago polled by NBC cited the Hamas-Israel struggle as a high concern. Hamas simply executed six hostages — one an American citizen — and continues to reject all cease-fire proposals. And universities aren’t divesting from Israel.
Jo Perry, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: As a graduate of each USC and UCLA, I’m dismayed on the severity of the results USC is imposing on a few of its college students who protested the mass killing of civilians within the Gaza Strip.
College students ought to be inspired to talk out after they see gross injustice occurring. Their trigger is a professional one, and it’s inconceivable to be happy with an establishment that punishes their actions, as if college students ought to simply undergo the accepted “groupthink” on a problem.
UCLA additionally misplaced respect when it completely failed to guard peacefully protesting college students when counterprotesters violently attacked them. Each universities can, and may, do significantly better.
Invoice Hessell, Oak View
