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Students protest for Gaza and Lebanon

This was the largest protest held on campus since the latest updated protest policies released on Aug. 24.

MAG plans to hold college night to increase student engagement

Smith has been working with the MAG since the summer to plan an event for college students throughout the Rochester area to visit the museum and participate in activities curated for students to enjoy.

Remembering Leonard Cohen

"Hallelujah" is perhaps one of his most intimate and raw songs, filled with ambiguity to examine the complicated nature of love and the paradoxical character of human emotions through lyrical analogies.

What is meant by “never again?” Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American Holocaust scholar, tells us

Bartov claimed that the Holocaust is what sparked Israel’s justification of establishment with self-determination and right of return.

Party for Socialism and Liberation protest DoD-sponsored event outside MAG

“Free Palestine! The military-industrial complex is complicit in genocide. All of you are complicit. Free Palestine!”  This was what protest co-organizer CJ Militello shouted as security dragged him out of the Memorial Art (MAG) Gallery Sept. 16.

Palestinian flags removed from the Eastman Quad

If you had walked by Eastman Quad on the first day of classes, you would have seen Palestinian flags covering the whole Quad.

The massacres that linger: Ceasefire now!

Since the war in Gaza began, more than 40,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis have been killed. Last month, Israel recovered six Israeli hostages' remains.