UC Santa Cruz alumna Rachel Raiyani supports students protesting the Gaza war and is against the use of U.S. tax money to buy weapons. She didn’t attend the protests at UCSC, but watched them unfolding live on Instagram. “I watched as police roughhoused and arrested my fellow classmates and friends,” she writes. “I sat in pain and felt perturbed that anyone would see this as protecting students.” The police action, arrests and restrictions that ban some students from campus have, she says, obliterated any hope of shared governance.
