>>> THIS IS NBC4 NEWS AT 11:00. >>> GROWING ENCAMPMENTS AT UCLA AND USC TONIGHT AND OTHER COLLEGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS STUDENTS DIG IN FOR THE LONG HAUL. THEY ARE ALL PROTESTING THE WAR IN GAZA AND AT TIMES CLASHING WITH OTHER STUDENTS AND SECURITY AND TODAY THE PRESIDENT OF USC MET WITH ORGANIZERS OF THE PROTEST FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. THIS IS WHERE DEMONSTRATORS CAPPED OUT AND WESTWOOD AT UCLA. WE WILL HAVE MORE ON THAT IN JUST A MOMENT BUT FIRST WE ARE LEARNING MORE TONIGHT ABOUT USC'S PRESIDENT AND THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATORS. THEY WILL MEET AGAIN FOR THE SECOND TIME TOMORROW. TODAY WAS THEIR FIRST CONVERSATION SINCE PRO- PALESTINIAN ENCAMPMENTS TOOK OVER PART OF THE CAMPUS LAST WEEK. STUDENT ORGANIZERS SAY THEY HAVE A LIST OF DEMANDS THEY WANT THE UNIVERSITY TO MEET, INCLUDING THAT THEY WANT USC TO DIVEST FROM ANYTHING RELATED TO ISRAEL BUT THIS TIME, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, THE UNIVERSITY SAYS IT NEEDS TO START SETTING UP FOR ITS SMALLER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES THAT HAVE NOW BEEN CANCELED, INCLUDING THE AREA WHERE TENTS ARE NOW LOCATED. PRESIDENT CAROL FOLTZ RELEASED A STATEMENT AFTER TODAY'S TALK, THE STUDENTS SIT AT THE END THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CONSIDERED THIS MEETING ( FROM THE STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE AND I CAN APPRECIATE THAT. SHE GOES ON TO SAY I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS AND I AM PLEASED WE ALL AGREE ON THAT. WE WILL GO DAY BY DAY. MOVING BACK TO UCLA WHERE THERE DEMONSTRATORS ARE CAMPING OUT RIGHT NOW, ROBERT K WASIK IS LIFE WITH MORE. >> Reporter: CALLING, WE HAVE POSITIONED OURSELVES A DISTANCE BACK FROM THE ENCAMPMENT AS YOU TAKE A LOOK FROM OVERHEAD FROM NEWS CHOPPER 4. CALLING, WE WERE HERE ON THE VERY FIRST DAY OF THE INCOME AND LAST WEDNESDAY AND MUCH HAS CHANGED. THIS RIGHT NOW IS THE CURRENT SITUATION ON THE UCLA CAMPUS. TONIGHT, PRIVATE SECURITY HIRED BY UCLA BLOCKING ACCESS TO RICE HALL, THE CENTERPIECE OF THIS CAMPUS. OUTSIDE OF ROYCE, THE ENCAMPMENT HAS BECOME A FORTRESS, WHAT APPEARS TO BE A PRIVATE ESTATE ON PUBLIC LAND. TO ENTER IN YOU MUST PASS THROUGH THE ENCAMPMENTS OWN SECURITY AND MUST BE GIVEN A WRISTBAND TO ENTER. WE, MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ARE DENIED ACCESS INSIDE THE ENCAMPMENT. A REQUEST TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE ON CAMERA WAS DENIED. NO QUOTE, MEDIA LIAISON AVAILABLE, AND WE WOULD NEED TO SHOW IDENTIFICATION AND MEDIA CREDENTIALS BEFORE OUR REQUEST IS CONSIDERED AND APPROVED. THAT IS WHY YOU WILL NOT HEAR FROM ANYONE REPRESENTING THE ENCAMPMENT THIS EVENING. NOW IN ITS BARRICADED QUARTER, A LARGE SCREEN PROTECT -- PROJECTING IMAGES OF THE HAMAS ATTACK FROM OCTOBER 7th ON A LOUD AND CONTINUOUSLY FACING THE ENCAMPMENT, SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL STANDING BY, INCLUDING THIS UCLA FRESHMAN. ARE YOU SCARED, ELI? >> I'M SCARED OF WHAT'S HAPPENING. I'M SCARED FOR WHAT I SEE IN MY OTHER FELLOW STUDENTS. I DESERVE TO GO HERE. WE PAID TUITION. THIS IS OUR SCHOOL. >> Reporter: ELI SAID THIS TODAY WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO GET TO CLASS. OKAY, I'M GOING. I'M TRYING TO GO IN. I HAVE MY HANDS UP. I'M NOT HURTING THEM. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. >> Reporter: ALSO TODAY, A PRO- PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS SEEN ON CAMERA ATTACKING A PRO-ISRAELI DEMONSTRATOR. AND THEN SHE IS SEEN ACTIVATING A TASER, BUT NOT MAKING CONTACT. SHE WAS EVENTUALLY ESCORTED AWAY BY SECURITY. AND THEN, THERE IS THIS PHONE CALL SHARED WITH NBC4 TONIGHT BY A CONCERNED PARENT WORRIED ABOUT HER CHILD, A STUDENT AT UCLA. >> HI THERE. I'M TRYING TO REPORT MY KID IS NOT ABLE TO GET INTO THE LIBRARY. >> IS THERE ANY OTHER ENTRANCE YOUR SON CAN ENTER? >> NO, THEY ARE BARRICADING EVERY AREA FOR HIM TO GET INTO, AND YOU KNOW, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WHY IS THAT EVEN TOLERATED, LIKE WHY SHOULD A JEWISH KID HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER ENTRANCE? >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU. UNFORTUNATELY THE POLICE ARE NOT INTERVENING WITH THEM RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: WHAT YOU JUST HEARD THERE AGAIN IS A CALL TODAY FROM A UCLA PARENT WHO TOLD US TONIGHT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED, FEARING FOR THE SAFETY OF HER CHILD. THAT CALL TO THE UCLA POLICE DEPARTMENT. AS FOR ELI, THAT YOUNG MAN IS FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA UP IN SARATOGA. HE SAID HE DID MAKE IT TO CLASS TODAY FINALLY, FINDING ANOTHER ENTRANCE, BUT WAS LATE. HE SAID HE HAS WRITTEN TO THE ADMINISTRATION WITH THE COMPLAINT BUT HAS NOT HEARD BACK. WE, AS WELL, HAVE CONTACTED UCLA, REACHED OUT TO THEM FOR A STATEMENT, AND WE HAVE NOT YET HEARD BACK SO CALLING, RIGHT NOW AS YOU TAKE A LOOK FROM NEWS CHOPPER 4, OF RUNNING CAMERA THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND CONTINUES TO DENY US ACCESS. >> ROBERT, BEEN ASKED TO SHOW I.D. OR CREDENTIALS IS NOT SOMETHING WE EVER SEE AT THIS KIND OF EVENT. THIS IS A PUBLIC PLACE. WHO ARE THE PEOPLE SETTING UP THE BARRIERS THERE AND WHAT -- WHY ARE THEY BLOCKING ACCESS TO REPORTERS? >> Reporter: THEY ARE BLOCKING ACCESS COMPLETELY. AS FAR AS IDENTIFICATION, THEY ARE WEARING MASKS. THEY WILL NOT GIVE US THEIR FULL NAMES, FIRST NAMES ONLY IF THEY CHOOSE TO GIVE US THAT AND THINGS AGAIN HAVE CHANGED IF YOU GO BACK TO THE VERY FIRST NIGHT OF THIS ENCAMPMENT, WE MET SOMEONE, WENT TO THE MEDIA CHECK-IN, AS THEY CALL IT. NICOLE CAME OUT AND TALKED TO US, EXPLAINED THE DEMANDS, EXPLAINED THEIR DEMANDS THAT THEY ARE NOT MOVING UNTIL THERE IS A CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PRO-PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT AND HAMAS AND ALSO, THEY WOULD NOT LEAVE THAT ENCAMPMENT UNTIL THERE IS A UC DIVESTITURE FROM COMPANIES AFFILIATED WITH ISRAEL BUT NOW THERE IS NO ONE AVAILABLE TO US UNTIL WE SHOW ALL SORTS OF IDENTIFICATION AND UNTIL WE GET CLEAR AND ONE THING HAS NOT CHANGED, CALLING. WE ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE THE ENCAMPMENT AND WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM INSIDE OF THE ENCAMPMENT. THAT'S THE LATEST HERE FROM THE CAMPUS OF UCLA. ROBERT KAVACIK. LET'S GO BACK TO YOU. >> BUT ROBERT, THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU WHY? >> Reporter: THEY ARE NOT EXPLAINING WHY. I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS GENERAL MISTRUST, BUT THEY ARE NOT GIVING US ACCESS AT ALL TO ANYONE WITHOUT APPROVAL AND CERTAINLY NOT ACCESS INSIDE THE ENCAMPMENT. ANYONE GETTING ACCESS INSIDE THAT ENCAMPMENT IS GIVEN A WRISTBAND. HOW THEY ARE IN THAT WRISTBAND, THEY STILL HAVE NOT EXPLAINED TO US. >>> WE PUT TOGETHER A SPECIAL SECTION ON THE CAMPUS PROTEST ON OUR WEBSITE
