From the Daily Bruin: How UC Campuses Dealt With the Encampments

I am cross-posting an article running in the UCLA campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin. The article examines how various University of California campuses dealt with the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian encampments and protests this year. The article specifically focuses on UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC Berkeley. It is a pathetic picture of weakness and indecision on the part of the UC administrators, from UC President Michael Drake down to the respective chancellors. Rather than shutting down the encampments immediately, administrators preferred to negotiate, make proposals, counter-proposals, and wring their hands until the situation on their campuses became intolerable.

Not that the Daily Bruin would agree with my assessment. Like most every other campus newspaper in the land, they sympathize with the pro-Palestinian agitators while condemning police action to clear the encampments. I still feel it is worthwhile to cross-post the article as examples of the weakness of the UC administrators. (I have added my own comment in the Daily Bruin reader commentary thread.)