Demonstrations articles
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Amid continued demonstrations, swastika drawn on USC's campus
In the midst of tense demonstrations at USC over the war in Gaza, officials found a swastika drawn on a campus fence. "Clearly it was drawn there just to incite even more anger at a time that is so painful for our community," USC President Carol Folt wrote in a statement on Instagram. "I condemn any antisemitic symbols or any form of hate speech against anyone." Folt said the swastika was removed hours after it was reported to campus officials Tuesday afternoon — the day that she again met with...
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Columbia Begins Suspensions After Demonstrators Ignore 2PM Deadline
Columbia Begins Suspensions After Demonstrators Ignore 2PM Deadline Update (2230ET): Columbia University announced Monday evening that it has begun suspending students who wouldn't leave an pro-Palestine encampment by a 2pm deadline. Via NY Times Students in the encampment along with hundreds of supporters spent Monday afternoon rallying in support of the movement, however by 4pm most of the protesters began to disperse after there was no sign of police action to arrest protesters...
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Demonstration of heralded three-photon entanglement on a photonic chip
Photonic quantum computers are computational tools that leverage quantum physics and utilize particles of light (i.e., photons) as units of information processing. These computers could eventually outperform conventional quantum computers in terms of speed, while also transmitting information across longer distances.