Undergrad Group Organized Display of White Flowers for International Students

Some undergraduate students can be spotted with a white flower pinned to their lapel, representing support for international students. Matas Kudarauskas ’25 and Ida Kozuchowska ’25, two international students, said they began organizing the flowers on Sunday, and raised $500 from the Harvard International Relations Council and the Harvard Undergraduate Woodbridge International Society to buy more than 800 of the flowers. Using a team of volunteers who brought the flowers to each dining hall last night for students to pick up before the morning’s procession from the houses.

“We came up with white flowers as a symbol of innocence in this situation, that we’re being treated like hostages,” Kudarauskas said, of international students.

Last Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would revoke Harvard’s eligibility to enroll international students — an order that was swiftly blocked with a temporary restraining order in court the next day. During today’s ceremony, a judge will decide whether to grant Harvard a preliminary injunction to extend the block.

Correction: May 30, 2025

A previous version of this article misspelled the surname of Matas Kudarauskas ’25.

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