the move comes after years of student organizing and a vote in february by pitzer's student senate touspend all institutional ties with israeli universities. according to the national chapter of students for justice in palestine, pitzer has become the first u.s. school to impose an institution-wide boycott of an israel study abroad program. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now!'s juan gonzÁlez in chicago. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show in haiti, where deadly violence continues between armed groups and police in port-au-prince. on tuesday, u.n. rights chief volker turk deplored what he called the unprecedented scale of rights abuses in haiti. >> there has been a shocking rise in killings and kidnappings, sexual violence, particularly targeting women and young girls and is pervasive and likely to have reached a level not seen before. as a number of people internal