Posted on 04/06/2015 10:23:20 PM PDT by Nachum
A student journalist at Barry University was slapped with a suspension for helping conservative provocateur James O’Keefe film a video on campus in which a university employee is asked to help start a club to support ISIS.
In the video, released by O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, the student, known only as Laura, meets with a university administrator who advises her on creating a “Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” student group.
In the video, a school administrator tells Laura that “we’re not here to limit people and their clubs” after she talks of sending aid to fighters with the Islamic state. At another point in the video, a different administrator is supportive of creating a group to send humanitarian aid to the Islamic State, while only suggesting a modified name for the group because “technically, we’re at war with ISIS.” (RELATED: Barry University Student Takes Down Her Own School)
Now, school administrators have suspended Laura, saying that she created a hostile environment for school employees.
“In response to complaints filed by members of the University community on Wednesday, April 3, and received by my office this morning, April 6, 2015, your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff,” Maria Alvarez, Barry’s dean of students, said in an email that was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Because these alleged actions violate Barry University’s Code of Conduct, effective immediately you are placed on Interim Suspension from Barry University.”
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Wow. Free speech?
Nice lessons to teach students: Don’t help conservatives!
Really suspension should have been the morons who were willing to allow ISIS on campus.
Lawsuit bait...
The only way a liberal ever “gets it” is when they are forced to pay a PERSONAL penalty for their actions.
Pssh not even then.
Take all the admins down. There are WAY too many of them these daze anyway....
Had she outed a Christian who didn’t believe in homo marriage then the university would have given her a free education
Punish a student for showing the truth, wow
They’re on tape agreeing to assist terrorists. They should be indicted!
Private school. Not a 1st Amendment issue.
The leftist pirogues are left hanging in the wind yet again.
Horribly immoral people we have running this university.
Its a good thing that all our universities are NOT like this one! ( sarc.)
Laura just exposed 2 administrators that are okay with supporting terrorists that behead, rape and enslave Christians.
One would think the univ. would be thankful.
These jacki need to be sued blind.
“your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff”
The only mention of a “hostile environment” is within the context of sexual harassment.
Disruptive Behavior is defined as “Substantial disruption of University operations including obstruction of teaching, research, administration, other University activities, and/or other authorized non-University activities which occur on campus...”
Was administration disrupted? Or are administrators uncomfortable with exposure of their own behavior?
http://www.barry.edu/student-handbook/handbook/student-conduct.html
Barry University is a private, Catholic institution of higher education...located in Florida.
https://www.facebook.com/barryuniversity
Illiterate university staff alert:
> your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff...
Web page saved.
Speech codes on universities are a complete abomination to the constitution...
And these are not private colleges that have the most draconian speech codes, it is the PUBLIC ONES!!!
Maria Alvarez, Barry’s dean of students, sounds like a typical feckless college administrator.
To find the true source of the hostile environment, Maria should simply look in a mirror.
LAWSUIT.
They (university) aren’t even embarrassed by their own liberal assholity.
Wonder how they’d have reacted if they were trying to start a Christian club there, I bet they wouldn’t have told her they weren’t there to stop any clubs from forming.
For exposing their willingness to commit treason?
...your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption ...
Can't take responsibility for their own actions.
...effective immediately you are placed on Interim Suspension from Barry University.”
I didn't know college students could be suspended. Huh. Well, that's not as bad as being hung for treason is it?
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