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Protesters arrested in Stanford identified – Palo Alto Daily Post

Protesters made their opinions known with graffiti on the Stanford campus. AP photo.

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Editor of the Daily Post

According to the university, all of the people who allegedly broke into the offices of Stanford’s president and chancellor and vandalized the building were students.

Students who participated in Wednesday’s protest were immediately suspended and none of the senior students will be allowed to graduate, acting university president Richard Seller and Provost Jenny Martinez said in a joint statement.

The students entered Martinez and Saller’s offices at dawn on Wednesday, barricaded themselves in and remained there for three hours.

As photos show, messages were sprayed on the inside and outside of the building.

The demonstrators cheered the arrested people as they were led out of the building and loaded into police vehicles.

A police officer was slightly injured when he was pushed by demonstrators, the university said.

“The situation on campus has now crossed the line from peaceful protest to actions that threaten the safety of our community,” Seller and Martinez said, adding that protesters recently attempted to occupy another building.

One of the arrested students – 23-year-old Zoe Georgia Edelman of Washington, DC – is listed as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper “Stanford Daily.”

Most student profiles were deleted from the Stanford website after the arrests, but the web pages remained accessible, albeit with a “page not found” message.

According to police records, the protesters face charges of burglary.

Their names were posted yesterday on a computer in the lobby of the Stanford Department of Public Safety.

Those arrested were:

• Eliana Lindsay Fuchs, 24, of San Mateo;

• Isabella Terrazas, 22, of Houston;

• Hunter Armstrong Taylor-Black, 24, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania;

• Dilan Suraj Gohill, 19, of Santa Monica;

• Taylor Oh McCann, 32, of Oakland;

• Gretchen Rose Guimarin, 22, of Rancho Cordova;

• John Thomas Richardson, 19, of Menlo Park;

• Kaiden Wang, 22, of Elk Grove;

• German Rafael Gonzalez, 20, from Stanford;

• Cameron Michael Pennington, 22, of Stanford;

• Zoe Georgia Edelman, 23, of Washington, DC;

• Maya Nell Murungi Burke, 28, of Frankfort, Kentucky;

• Amy Jing Zhu, 20, of Thousand Oaks;

Wednesday’s protest left a trail of destruction on Stanford’s campus, including this door to the building that houses the president’s office. Image from AP video.