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Recent student activism focused on endowment, Supreme Court

May 18, 2025 | By Baala Shakya and Olivia Cyrus in Yale News
Originally published in Yale News on May 18, 2025. You can access the original publication here: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/05/18/recent-student-activism-focused-on-university-investments-supreme-court-rulings

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For centuries, Yale students have participated in protests and social activism, ranging from a walkout over an instructional policy change to rallies against South African apartheid and the murder trials of Bobby Seale and three other Black Panthers.

In the past four years, student activism has primarily focused on the University’s investments in the fossil fuel industry, the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and affirmative action, and Israel’s war in Gaza and Yale’s investments in weapons manufacturers…

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