Christopher Loera News Today

  Thursday morning, a group of University of Utah faculty released a letter to U President Taylor Randall condemning the U’s response to a solidarity encampment organized Monday night by Mecha and affirming their support for student protesters. As of Thursday evening, the letter had received over 100 staff signatures.  “On Monday April 29, a...

Similar to what's happening on college campuses across the country, a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Utah turned into an encampment on Monday.

  On Nov. 9, the University of Utah took its sponsorship and funding away from Mecha de U of U, a student organization that organizes for the empowerment of marginalized students on campus. This started on Nov. 1, when the Young Americans for Freedom held a viewing of an offensive movie featuring accounts of children...