In a statement to Honi on Monday, a University spokesperson declared that “political messaging has been removed from Graffiti Tunnel for a number of years, irrespective of the content; recently that has involved both pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine graffiti.”
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In a submission to the Undergraduate Studies Committee, the University has proposed 12 2000-level and 13 3000-level units in the Philosophy department be cut or merged.
The order to disassemble the Encampment follows an alleged “disruptive fire evacuation” on May 21 that “revealed a serious safety concern affecting the good order on campus,” according to a note delivered by ANU’s Facilities and Services Division.
The NTEU’s and Students for Palestine’s “USyd Cut Ties with Genocide” rally took place in front of the encampment, with various speeches remarking on the solidarity between staff and students in demanding that the University cut ties with Israel.
Since its inception four weeks ago, the encampment has demanded that University management “meet with us and answer our demands”, but not “behind closed doors” or through “secret negotiations.” Last Friday, protestors’ attempts to stage a ‘town hall meeting’ was ignored by University management and transformed into a public forum by guest speakers. At the time of writing, a petition launched by the encampment to hold a Student General Meeting with management is also 150 signatures away from meeting the 2,000 signature threshold.
Hugo Hay (Senior Editor), Ashray Kumar, China Meldrum, Kelly Caviedi, Joan Brizuela, Bipasha Chakraborty, and Estelle Vigouroux will edit the magazine for the next year.
The May 13th meeting, held online and in person, dissolved the existing Higher Degree Research (HDR) network, and replaced the current Equity Officer role with a new council executive position which will now oversee HDR representation.
The University of Sydney has modified the public opening hours of Fisher Library this week. As of Monday, the Library is now open to non-students and staff between 9am to 5pm, shortened from the normal 8pm closing time implemented throughout the semester.
After weeks of speculation and an open letter from American politicians warning against such, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has announced that the ICC is seeking arrest warrants for two Israeli leaders and three Hamas leaders:
“We work, teach, and research at these Australian universities, and we equally condemn the violence against these peaceful encampments, the relentless media campaign to demonise student protestors, and the refusal by university leadership to engage with the reasonable and urgent political demands of the liberation camps.”