No words

Access to UCLA Radio station remains locked by university.

Our station was swept in the middle of our news hour, centered around the encampment in Royce quad and yesterday’s horrific events on campus. UCLA is painfully complicit.

Limited programming will be available today.

“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.…

Dr. Phil is on the scene - interviewing counterprotestors. Including one girl I saw harassing the kids in the encampment on Thursday

I love this picture of young Frank Bidart w/ young Helen Vendler back from a time that feels posthumous now.

😭 They made me the poet laureate of Vermont. I just love this state so much.

Thank you everyone for the messages I just happen to literally be teaching poetry in the woods today. Thank you Vermont Arts Council ❤️❤️❤️
vtdigger.org/2024/05/01/thi…

You shouldn’t be able to be president of a college or a university without working as a faculty member (tenure or professional track) for at least ten years.

The protesters at Columbia were professionals in possession of the kind of bike lock technology that can uhh be purchased through a Columbia store. Based on the placement of dorm furniture, we assess that they had advanced training in fort construction, likely as toddlers.

'[she had a] tactile understanding of the ancient practice of creating poems as art—running her hands like a dressmaker along the back of their stitching, watching the way they draped and moved and caught the light.' Nathan Heller🙏
newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Excellent WKCR broadcasters pointing out that if it's mostly 'outsiders' in Hamilton Hall, Columbia's lockdown policy was a huge failure

This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.

Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, says he’s been “told the police are imminent.”