Reports from campus on graduation day
After weeks of chaos on campus, USC Commencement is here. With the annual main-stage ceremony canceled for “safety concerns,” the individual schools’ ceremonies and celebrations are underway all across campus. Annenberg Media brings you the day’s Live Updates here:
As at least 29 students were suspended for protests, faculty rallied to demand amnesty
Faculty met with Folt and Guzman to advocate for suspended students.
Encampment members demand USC drop charges and disciplinary action and condemn ties to LAPD
Divest from Death Coalition held a press conference about the pre-dawn encampment sweep.
Live Updates: Days 11 and 12 of the encampment
Annenberg Media follows the Divest from Death encampment on USC’s Alumni Park.
USC law school faculty sign open letter to Folt supporting students
Gould Professors criticized the administration for barring the student valedictorian’s speech, and calling in armed police to violently suppress peaceful protest.
LIVE UPDATES: A USC pro-Palestinian group hosts an occupation on campus in solidarity with Gaza
Organized by the USC Divest From Death Coalition, students are gathered in Alumni Park in what is one of the first West Coast occupations on a college campus.
Super PHOTOS: For Super Tuesday’s primary election
LIVE: Across Los Angeles County, California elections are coming to a close.
