The Daily Emerald is providing live coverage of the University of Oregon’s pro-Palestine encampment, which began on April 29 at 7 a.m. All of our coverage on the encampment can be found here.

Updated 10:00 p.m.

Current Associated Students of the University of Oregon President Chloé Webster and incoming president Mariam Hassan met with President John Karl Scholz on both May 13 and May 9 to discuss what ASUO had heard from the UO Coalition for Palestine’s negotiations team. Scholz, Webster and Hassan also discussed  sentiments shared from UO students during ASUO’s May 8 Senate meeting. 

The senate heard from dozens of student speakers, some for and some against the BDS resolution that would be voted on by the senate that night. This resolution was later passed.

According to Webster, Scholz said any response he had in regards to the encampment and its demands was previously published in statements sent to the University of Oregon community. Scholz’s most recent messages to the UO community, including comment on the encampment, can be found here.

Scholz had previously said in a statement sent out on May 10 that “data shows almost no effect from efforts like BDS on either easing the suffering of non-combatants or a swifter end to hostilities.”

Webster said that following the meeting with Scholz, she and Hassan did research into the “feasibility” of the asks within the ASUO resolution and the asks of the encampment. 

According to Webster, they discovered that the UO Foundation “isn’t necessarily” invested in Jasper Ridge, but in a partnership.

Following this discovery, Webster said ASUO had conversations with the encampment leaders in order to form an updated list of demands to present to Scholz at another meeting with him on Monday.

Webster said that Scholz was “upset” by the rally at Johnson Hall on Friday.

“I think that he was expecting students to respond in a way where they just wanted to have a conversation,” Webster said. “I told him — students do want to have a conversation but it’s not, they don’t think they have a space to just politely ask for that.”

Webster said that, in regards to feasibility, the university may not be able to meet “some of the language” in the demands, but that she expects the demands to be an ongoing conversation until the end of the school year.

Webster said that she does not have another meeting with Scholz scheduled at present. 

Updated 1:12 p.m.

As encampment members gather for lunch, the temperature has risen, hovering at around 70 degrees. There is now a second supply tent, and several cases of water placed throughout the camp.

At 2:30 p.m., there will be a BIPOC Affinity Meeting to discuss “taking up space” within activism and organization.
Updated 9:17 a.m.
It’s day 16 of UO’s pro-Palestine encampment on the Memorial Quad. Yesterday, negotiators did not meet with university officials, and have not done so since May 9; but both parties expressed an openness to resuming negotiations. It’s unclear whether they will do so today,
Daily Emerald reporters are on scene and will continue to provide live updates throughout the day.