UC rejects calls for Israel-related divestment, boycott Los Angeles Times

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• Actor Mike Myers makes first public appearance in a year at AFI awards
• UCLA spring showcase at Rose Bowl has players feeling ‘like L.A. is Bruin fans again’
• This NYC priest’s dramatic downfall was just the beginning of perv-priest scandals
• Amid Gaza protests, ‘hateful graffiti,’ Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus through weekend

Ritter also has acknowledged using $140,000 from the tax-exempt trust to cover his own expenses and conduct his ministry. The trust, which most board members were unaware of, was created years ago with part of Ritter’s own salary. He said he was concerned that his critics would attack him for earning so much, so he used the trust to make his pay seem to be far less--$38,000, rather than $98,000. It also was revealed that Covenant House officials gave Kite a new identity by using the baptismal certificate of a 10-year-old boy who had died of cancer in 1980.

Actor Mike Myers makes first public appearance in a year at AFI awards

He denied published reports that donations to Covenant House have dropped sharply. Despite an initial dip in receipts, “the donors are just so committed to this work that the bad press has not convinced them that this work is not worth supporting,” Harnett said. With such accusations, longstanding concerns about Covenant House’s methods--accusations often dismissed during its heyday as backbiting on the part of its smaller social service competitors--also are getting new attention. But many of the same critics say that precisely because it is so large and has grown so fast, Covenant House has become a vital and all but irreplaceable resource. In the last few years, they note, it has improved its core program, hired more professionally trained staff members and begun ambitious experiments.

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"By supporting transformative projects like Covenant House New York's new state-of-the-art facility, we are helping our most vulnerable get back on a path toward stability and opportunity." Your support provides immediate shelter and care that helps young people build on their strengths to overcome their experiences of homelessness and human trafficking. This month, Covenant House’s scandals took another twist when the New York Times reported that Ritter had set up a trust fund of almost $1 million, ostensibly for work with runaways. However, none of the money was spent on programs and instead was used for loans to two Covenant House board members and Ritter’s sister, the newspaper said.

This NYC priest’s dramatic downfall was just the beginning of perv-priest scandals

Joshua Perry, a boy who had undergone a liver transplant at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, took a handoff from Garbers and ran untouched into the end zone before being hoisted into the air by players from both the offense and defense. A crowd of 11,703 that dwarfed previous turnouts for the spring showcase at Drake Stadium saw the UCLA offense defeat the defense in a reversal of fortunes given the defense’s dominance during much of spring practices. A Times review shows the LAPD’s academy is graduating about half the number of recruits needed per class to keep pace with Mayor Karen Bass’ ambitious plan to expand the department to 9,500 officers. Los Angeles officials have hired a Northern California-based headhunting firm to identify and vet candidates to be the next chief of police. Student organizers of the divestment campaign against UC said the university’s position would not deter them from continuing to organize. The UC Divest Coalition includes chapters at UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz.

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This NYC priest's dramatic downfall was just the beginning of perv-priest scandals.

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USC has been roiled by bitter controversy over the rescinding of a graduation speaking slot for valedictorian Asna Tabassum and the subsequent cancellation of the “main stage” commencement ceremony. Los Angeles police arrested 93 demonstrators earlier in the week, and tension was renewed Saturday after pro-Palestinian protesters reestablished a tent encampment in Alumni Park. “I would argue that most people on this side of the fence have skin in the game,” Fried said, referring to those on the pro-Israel side of Sunday’s security barriers. Across the lawn, demonstrators carried signs that ranged from a handmade “Free Hugs Jewish Students” to pre-printed “I go bananas for Israel” — a taunt aimed at reports of someone with a banana allergy in the pro-Palestinian encampment, now encircled by a protective wall of plywood. The conflict has ignited demonstrations at university campuses across the United States in recent weeks, and resulted in the arrests of more than 700 people, according to various news sources.

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Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the opening of Covenant House New York's new $76 million facility that will provide housing and supportive services to youth who are experiencing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. The new 80,000 square foot facility is the first purpose-built facility in the 50-year history of Covenant House serving young people in New York City. The facility features 1,500 square feet of outdoor space, six floors of residential shelter with up to 120 beds, and five floors of program space. The supportive programs include health and wellness services, workforce training, social case management, recreational activities, and advocacy and legal services. In February 1990, Covenant House founder and President Bruce Ritter was forced to step down in the wake of allegations of sexual and financial misconduct, beginning with the accusations of Kevin Kite, who accused Ritter of sexual abuse. Ritter resigned but was never charged with sexual abuse.[6] Soon after, more accusations surfaced.

Charges by Darryl J. Bassile of Ithaca were under review by a special panel, it said. Covenant House acknowledged Monday that it provided a dead boy's identity to a former male prostitute, but it declined to say how it had obtained copies of the boy's records. Mrs. Warner said that she has no idea how Kite obtained the copies and that she has the originals.

We provided more than 790,000 nights of safe housing to young people in the past year. For just $19 per month, you can provide meals, shelter and love to youth who sleep at a Covenant House each night. Counseling given to sexually-active teens, our sources charge, uses the “non-judgmental” approach. If the teen indicates that he or she does not want to change lifestyles, then any health problems are attended to – many of them have contracted any number of venereal diseases – and they are sent on their way. The public must be reassured that donations -- which dropped as soon as the scandal broke -- are used as intended. Supporters should not let that happen to Covenant House, the 22-year-old New York-based organization that spends three times as much as the federal government to help troubled teen-agers with no place else to turn.

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The survey also showed smaller departments with fewer than 50 officers are still struggling with a higher rate of resignations and retirements. Individual departments are turning that corner at different rates, however, according to Wexler, who noted many are still struggling to attract and keep officers. Mayor Karen Bass had been hoping to restore the size of the LAPD to 9,500 officers by the end of June. UC also joined the anti-apartheid divestment campaign against South Africa in the 1980s, after thousands of student protesters boycotted classes, erected shantytowns to dramatize the plight of Black South Africans and prompted a police crackdown and arrests at UC Berkeley.

Kite later contended that Father Ritter funneled more than $25,000 to him in cash, rent money and gifts, while the two were involved in a sexual relationship. "When Kevin Kite first came to Covenant House he claimed his life was in danger," it said. "We believed him. We placed him in a safe-house program. As part of that program, he needed a new identity." To protect him, Covenant House officials sent him to New York, where Father Ritter took the case. Tim Warner and Father Ritter never crossed paths -- until last week, amid reports of a New York City sex scandal. But he has also gathered his share of detractors, including those who say that Covenant House is a monument to Ritter’s own ego, and is far less effective than programs that operate on a smaller scale.

He has trained with and performed for both the Bob Baker Marionette Theater and the Jim Henson Company. He also served as a campaign media director for a congressional candidate in the 2020 elections. “The Center is devoted to the academic study of Israel and has no ties to the Israeli government,” Waxman wrote. Further, Waxman singled out one of the groups he said is organizing campus protests, Students for Justice in Palestine. A GoFundMe campaign that Carr said was not affiliated with IAC purported to support the UCLA counterdemonstration. The head of the Israeli-American Council, Elan Carr, confirmed Sunday that the group had organized the counterprotest at UCLA, as well as others at demonstrations across the country, and had hired multiple security companies to patrol the Los Angeles event.

It also marked the start of an important alliance between the Rape Treatment Center and Hollywood. Abarbanel consulted on shows like “Lou Grant,” “Hill Street Blues, “Cagney & Lacey,” “L.A. Law” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” all of which helped nudge the culture away from victim blaming toward a more compassionate view of the trauma of rape. An alleged rapist would be charged only if a victim had demonstrated physical resistance “to the utmost,” as the law puts it.

If it disappears, they say, there is no other agency, public or private, to take its place. Loken, who never believed the charges against Ritter, said the priest “lived the life of a spiritual hermit” after the scandal drove him out of public life in the early 1990s. ''He lived very quietly up here,'' said Joseph J. Saccente, a former chief of staff at the Board of Education who retired to nearby Richmondville. Mr. Saccente knew Father Ritter because they were the only two who bought a New York City newspaper at Killenberger General Store, about four miles from the priest's white house on Penksa Road. Since Ritter’s fall, predatory priests have since been found to have abused thousands of children and young men in New York, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, Australia, Chile and Ireland.

UCLA has used private security guards on bicycles and metal barricades to separate the factions. “We want UCLA to divest from corporations that are profiting from the genocide in Gaza … we are trying to get UCLA to divest because UCLA has blood on its hands,” said Kaia Shah, a 2023 UCLA graduate who now works for the university as a researcher. A teenage gunman wounded 10 people when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out during a private event at a Florida party venue, authorities said.

Ms. McConville explained that Covenant House was dealing with a small youth group who were not prepared at this time of their lives to change their lifestyles. In six years of operation in Toronto, she said, they have helped over 15,000 kids who were disconnected from society. A third of these kids are involved in prostitution, drugs, and petty theft and are “too far gone to be helped,” she added.

The regent was not in favor of moving to dismantle protest encampments, saying escalation would be unwise, but added that board members planned to have discussions this summer about what should be the proper time, place and manner of protests. University leaders already have spoken out against targeted action against Israel, including in a 2018 statement by all 10 campus chancellors that rejected an academic boycott and endorsed continued engagement with both Israeli and Palestinian colleges, universities and colleagues. In 2020, UC became the nation’s largest university to divest from fossil fuels, a five-year effort undertaken to fight climate change by shifting funds into more environmentally sustainable investments, such as wind and solar energy. UC sold more than $1 billion in fossil fuel assets from its pension, endowment and working capital pools and surpassed its five-year goal of investing $1 billion in clean energy projects. At previous UCLA demonstrations, hundreds of students, faculty and alumni gathered without arrests or suspensions. At USC, police in riot gear arrested 93 pro-Palestinian protestors, while UCLA sent in observers who kept their hands off students in a peaceful encampment.