Student journalists discuss covering the campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Student protests over Israel's war in Gaza and U.S. involvement continue across |
| 0:05.2 | campuses nationwide. Hundreds have been arrested so far. Even as the school year |
| 0:09.9 | comes to an end, administrators are struggling with how to respond. |
| 0:13.7 | Joining us now for a view from their campuses are Spencer Friedland, managing editor of |
| 0:18.4 | News for the Emory Wheel at Emory University. |
| 0:21.7 | Aria Mukerjee, student life reporter for the Dahlia |
| 0:24.3 | Californian at UC Berkeley, and Neil Meta. He's editor-in-chief and |
| 0:29.0 | president of the Brown Daily Herald at Brown University. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to you three. |
| 0:33.8 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:34.6 | Spencer, you have said it's been extremely tense |
| 0:37.9 | on campus at Emory. |
| 0:39.5 | Tell me why. |
| 0:40.2 | What does it look and feel like right now? Yeah, so over the last five days we've had a series of protests in response to the war in Gaza and also in response to the police going to campus on Thursday and arresting 28 members of |
| 0:57.8 | Emory community including 20 people that are directly either students or faculty at the university. |
| 1:03.4 | And when you say it's ten's what does that mean what does that mean what does that |
| 1:06.8 | look and feel like there? Yeah so every day people are on edge when there |
| 1:11.0 | are Emory police coming through campus. A lot of Emory |
| 1:15.1 | Police have been, we're at the protest on Thursday and a lot of the student |
| 1:20.1 | protesters in ESJP or students for socialism have kind of been I think |
| 1:24.9 | affected by the way that the protests were handled on Thursday and have been |
| 1:29.4 | scared of student protests and then additionally I believe a lot of the Jewish students |
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