UT Dallas removes "spirit rocks" over contentious messages

UT Dallas students have long had free rein to paint messages on spirit rocks. Dueling graffiti about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prompted officials to intervene. As campus protests heated up after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the retaliatory war that ensued, University of Texas at Dallas students on both sides of the conflict turned to a long-held campus tradition to express their views.

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