If Californians want to reinvest in public higher education, they’re going to need to look further than the bottom of a cigarette carton for a solution. Read more...

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Photo: YIN FU/daily bruin (Left) Noor Teebi, a fourth-year environmental science student, speaks with Mashal Ali, a third-year geography and environmental studies student, in front of a “mock apartheid wall” in Bruin Plaza Tuesday. The wood panels were set up by members of Students for Justice in Palestine and are intended to symbolize the separation barrier that borders the West Bank. (Right) As part of the day’s events, students wrote notes to send to children in the Gaza Strip.