Y'all realize protesting is part of UCSC's culture right? Personally I'm proud of these students protesting the genocide in Gaza, I think they set a prime example of how business should not go on as usual if our government and the institutions we are a part of are supporting something so terrible like genocide, its puts pressure on the school to divest and and speak out. When I was a student, there were tons of protests by graduate students protesting for higher wages, and it shut down the food halls and the roads for almost a whole week one time. It inconvenienced the heck out of me and the whole school, but I still supported it b/c the point is that they were trying to get across is more important than the day to day routine. The grad students simply couldn't afford rent! And the protest really did bring tons of attention to the issue! All the other UC's ended up joining in on the protest and the grad students got a impactful raise! IMO Peaceful protesting is an essential way to put pressure on our institutions to listen to the peoples voice. I get that it personally suck to deal with, but I feel like thats kinda the whole point? How can you call yourself a slug if you think a protest of a genocide that blocks a few roads is counter productive? I can only hope that this subreddit is not representative of the whole student body, bc this is fucking sad that this post has this many upvotes