The American Agora
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Noor Darwish is angry. Her people are dying and the government of the country she lives in—the most resourceful and influential in the world—won't acknowledge the central issue at hand. Wearing a white #FreePalestine t-shirt, she engages with bystanders on a patch of grass between the library and cafeteria buildings at Santa Clara University, about an issue she cares deeply about. The handmade plywood wall behind her titled “Israeli Apartheid” is painted gray and bears a numb

On April 25, the AU Office of Sustainability released an announcement—as well as a video featuring President Sylvia Burwell—proclaiming that AU had finally reached carbon neutrality and was the first, well, American university to do so. Fossil Free AU, the student-led divestment campaign, released a public statement, an accusation of hypocrisy both congratulating the university for achieving a zero carbon footprint and bringing up the irony of achieving carbon neutrality whi