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    To the editor: As a 1975 graduate of Pomona College and a veteran of many campus protests, I am disturbed that neither protesting students nor some faculty seem to understand elementary civil disobedience. ("'I can't focus on anything but rage.' Pro-Palestinian protests roil elite Pomona College," April 12) If students choose to break the law by trespassing on an administration building or violating other school policies, they should be subject to suspension and arrest and accept that actions...

  • Letters to the Editor: Debating the arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses

    To the editor: It feels like a heavy week. College students across the nation have been facing extreme forms of retaliation for justly demanding that the schools to which they become indebted divest from a genocide. These institutions are trying to silence us, yet they are the ones that have taught us we have a right to peaceful assembly. That is, apparently, unless we exercise that right to call them out and hold them accountable. A genocide should never be debated; it is inhumane to do so. Let...

  • Letters to the Editor: Get used to more DIY houses in L.A. built by homeless people

    To the editor: Your article on the DIY house built by homeless immigrants in Highland Park vividly brought to mind the various favelas I saw in Rio de Janeiro many years ago. Many of them were intricately constructed of several different materials, some with a great deal of skill and artistry. And I could not help wondering at the time how there was such a disparity in that city between the extremely wealthy and so many poor people living in these shacks. I keep wondering the same thing now. If...