Southern California Highway Named After Obama
A five-mile section of the 134 Ventura freeway has been renamed after 44th President, and former local student, Barack Obama.
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California Legislature Names Freeway in Honor of former Pres. Obama
California legislators voted Tuesday to designate a section of the 134 Freeway in Los Angeles County as the President Barack H. Obama Highway in honor of the 44th President of the United States. In order to place the signs with Obama’s name along
‘Afrikan Black Caribbean Identified’ Students Occupy UC Santa Cruz
Approximately 150 students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have occupied the school’s administration building since Tuesday afternoon armed with a long list of demands for the educational institution.
L.A. Proposal to Rename Freeway After Barack Obama
In the time-honored tradition of naming clogged urban thoroughfares after politicians, a group of Democrats in Los Angeles is proposing to rename a freeway after President Barack Obama.
Obama’s College Days Memorialized in Pasadena Plaque
On Saturday, a sidewalk plaque was dedicated to President Barack Obama in front of the Pasadena, California apartment building in which he briefly lived during his sophomore year at Occidental College.
Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color,’ Block White Students from Passing Through
Left-wing students at the liberal UC Berkeley campus are holding protests, calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people and “spaces of color” at the university. The protesters were caught on video harassing white students and preventing them from crossing a bridge that receives heavy foot traffic, only allowing for students of color to pass.
Vandals Destroy 9/11 Memorial on Occidental College Campus
Vandals destroyed a 9/11 memorial at Occidental College in California on the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
9/11 Memorial Trashed, Flags Thrown in Garbage at Obama’s College
A memorial produced by College Republicans at Occidental College to pay tribute to the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks was vandalised on Saturday night, with the vandals also putting up posters attempting to shame the victims of the tragedy.
Berkeley Students to Police: Drop ‘Islamophobic’ Emergency Training
UC Berkeley’s student government passed a resolution Wednesday night that would ban an emergency response training program for campus police that they accuse of “racial profiling,” and say has contributed to “Islamophobia,” among other complaints.
Black Students Call for Abolishment of UC Irvine Police Department
The Black Student Union at UC Irvine is calling for the complete “dismantling” of the schools police department and any additional “paramilitary force presence” with a campus presence within three to six months. Although the BSU reportedly was not referring to a specific
‘Underrepresented’ Students Issue Demands at Cal Poly
“Underrepresented” students from an unrecognized consortium of minority student groups at Cal Poly–known as SLO Solidarity–have joined the ranks of other student-led protests throughout the country and presented a list of 41 demands for diversity initiatives for administrators to implement.
Occidental Student Protesters End Occupation
Student protesters at Occidental College have ended their six-day occupation of the school’s Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center building. And they have vowed to continue their fight against alleged racial bias at the privately-funded liberal arts institution.
Black Occidental Student Attacked as ‘Trash’ for Breaking with Black Student Movement
Occidental College student Alton Luke II–who is black–says he has been ostracized by former friends and was attacked via social media as “trash” this past week for cutting ties with the black student movement on campus.
No ‘Adults’ Allowed: Students Kick Breitbart Reporter out of ‘Safe Space’
On Friday, students occupying the administration building at Occidental College ejected Breitbart News’ Adelle Nazarian from their “safe space,” saying they felt “threatened” by her presence and referring to her as “an adult in a student-occupied space.”
Occidental Faculty Back Radical Student Protests
on Thursday, the faculty council at Occidental College unanimously approved a resolution indicating their “full support of The Oxy United for Black Liberation students’ actions and the demands for the culture around racism and diversity in the institution to change,” according to the Huffington Post. Students have demanded that Veitch resign, as one of their 14 demands.
Ferguson Effect: Occidental President Leaves Under Police Guard
On Wednesday, Black Lives Matter joined students at Occidental College in a demonstration that forced Occidental president Jonathan Veitch to leave campus under police guard.
Occidental College Cops Blast Students’ Demands
LOS ANGELES — Campus safety officers at Occidental College are denouncing a demand by a student activists that they stop wearing bulletproof vests. The police do not carry weapons, and bulletproof vests are their only protection.
Occidental Students Demand ‘No Bulletproof Vests’ for Campus Safety Officers
Students at Occidental College who have occupied an administration building this week have demanded that campus safety officers stop wearing bulletproof vests.
USC Caves to Protests; $200k for ‘Diversity’
On Monday, school officials at the University of Southern California yielded to pressure from students and announced they would begin taking steps to implement more “diversity” programs on campus.
