Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. Student journalists are in the center of campus protests, sometimes uncomfortably so.
While it was terrifying and, honestly, will take a lot of mental processing, the experience confirmed for me the importance of student journalists because we know our campus better than any outside reporter would, said Catherine Hamilton, 21.
Fear and anger were obvious in the voices of students narrating the action on Columbia's WKCR radio on Tuesday. The station's website briefly went down due to the high number of listeners. Police ordered a member of the press, Chris Mandell, to leave despite his press badge.
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