UCLA Chancellor Gene Block faces censure, no-confidence vote as graduation ceremonies start

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The vote would largely be symbolic as Chancellor Gene Block announced his retirement this summer.

With UCLA graduations underway, members of the university's faculty senate held an emergency special meeting to decide whether to deliver a censure and a no-confidence vote on UCLA Chancellor Gene Block for his handling of the pro-Palestinian encampment. Dozens of faculty members marched to Block's office Thursday in protest.

Now, the area around Royce Hall and the library where the encampment once stood is a ghost town and the last of the metal barriers where it once stood have been removed with graduations going on as planned. Tiffany Juarez earned her master's degree in law and said the weeks leading up to the ceremony were challenging. 'It's been really hard,' she said. We had final exams in person, so everything was going on in the school, we were still in exams.

 

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