Posted on 05/11/2017 8:52:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Middlebury College in Vermont has again announced that it has disciplined students over their behavior during an event featuring conservative author Charles Murray on March 2.
The school announced late last month that it had disciplined more than 30 students for their behavior. Now, as then, the school declined to give details about what that discipline looked like. In the latest announcement, the school said that it had, in April, disciplined a total of 41 students.
“This week’s cases were heard in a group hearing Thursday night before the Community Judicial Board (CJB) of Middlebury College. The CJB is empaneled from a pool of trained community members and, when hearing a case, consists of four students, two faculty members, and two members of the staff,” the school announced. “The CJB concluded that the second stage of the protest behaviors merited stronger sanctions. These decisions bring to 60 the number of students who have received College discipline since the disruption of Murray’s talk.”
Notice the mention of “stronger sanctions,” yet the school doesn’t say what any of the sanctions have been so far. The announcement also says “several more students” will receive hearings this week, which should result in more sanctions. A Federalist inquiry to the school about the nature of these sanctions went unanswered prior to press time.
One student, Samantha Lamonte, said earlier this month she was put on probation for helping prevent Murray from speaking by standing up and chanting loudly so no one could hear him. This sanction will be removed from her record at the end of the semester.
The school appears to have separated the protest of Murray into three stages, according to the Burlington Free Press: When students prevented Murray from speaking, when they disrupted his livestream link, and when they injured professor Allison Stanger as she left with Murray.
Students who participated in the two later stages of the protest, banging on windows and pulling fire alarms while Murray tried to speak from a different location and rocking his car and injuring the professor, will receive permanent marks on their records, Lamonte told the Free Press.
Middlebury Police Chief Thomas Hanley also said last Thursday that some students were under criminal investigation for assaulting professor Stanger. Stanger isn’t even a supporter of Murray’s ideas. She was there to ask him difficult questions about his books.
The Middlebury student government voted in April to protest the discipline of students who impeded the event and attacked a professor. If schools continue to give in to such childish behavior without sending a message that it is unacceptable, more people will be physically injured on college campuses.
In addition to disciplining students, Middlebury is also forming a committee to “explore and discuss issues relating to the events of March 2, including, but not limited to, freedom of expression, inclusivity, and the educational and civic challenges of the 21st century.” A cursory look at those named to the committee does not instill much confidence that “freedom of expression” will truly be represented. Representatives from the American Enterprise Institute Club and College Republicans on campus, which hosted the attempted Murray event, said they didn’t recognize names on the list that would represent their interests.
How about simply baring them from campus for the rest of their lives.
Let them explain that to the next school they apply to.
Probably sent them a stern letter of admonition.
Sounds like a few dozen of those ‘very sternly written notes’ were absolutely flying off the Xerox machines last week.
Double secret probation. AND a mark in their Permanent Records.
Double secret probation?
Along with an apology and an offer to create a new safe space for them where whitey can't go.
“Students who participated in the two later stages of the protest, banging on windows and pulling fire alarms while Murray tried to speak from a different location and rocking his car and injuring the professor, will receive permanent marks on their records, Lamonte told the Free Press.”
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Why wouldn’t law enforcement be involved in these acts?
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Attacked the woman who was going to oppose him. That makes it a riot not a protest. This would come under real police jurisdiction not this phony baloney campus “court”.
“Now, as then, the school declined to give details about what that discipline looked like.”
Probably threatened them with some incentive package.
This is back to the sixties again as the inmates take over the asylums. The “adults” running these mental institutions are beyond pathetic.
They should ALL be expelled, with notes on their transcripts that they were expelled for misconduct unworthy of any civilized society. They should be lucky to flip burgers in McDonalds... until they can be replaced by robots.
First of all, it’s a Vermont college. Need I say more. The same goes for those in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and possibly New Hampshire and Maine.
Secondly deliberately setting off a false fire alarm is a serious charge, possibly a felony. If so, they should be tried for it. Wonder if the aholes left fingerprints on the alarm box and its pull handle?
Re the assault of the professor, make it A&S, assault with attempt to do bodily harm, and possibly aggravated assault.
These are serious criminal charges. Convictions on them would be the best lesson these punks ever got from college.
That’ll look GOOD on their resume when they apply at Starbux.
When their parents are paying $50K/year for their attendance just how much discipline is the college willing to apply? That’s the gist of it.
The fact the colleges are overwhelmingly Leftist belies the fact the people who have the money to send their kids are overwhelmingly Leftist as well. I.e. the elites who dominate a rigged political-economic system.
The colleges just dance to their customers’ tune to bring in the money.
The only consolation is that a degree saturated in Leftism has very little practical application in a free, capitalist system. I slake my thirst with the tears of their desperation.
I attended a graduation at Middlebury close to 25 years ago. Yes, it is a politically very liberal college. Even back then they showed their tolerance by being intolerant in certain areas. This story isn’t finished though, and, knowing Middlebury, I suspect that a student convicted (No trial has been held yet) of assaulting a faculty member will most likely be expelled.
That would change the future of violent protests at the college; It is a very competitive place.
Middlebury is vulnerable to supporters, alumni and parents who will “vote” against the college with reduced financial and recruiting support because of the insane behaviour on the part of a minority of its’ faculty and students.
I’ll bet the ones causing the most problems are getting a free ride. There have been public comments about minorities getting a free ride. I’ll bet it’s already been taking place.
As for losing them..., you wouldn’t lose many. The rest of the students would snap back into line or else. And once one university did it, the others would follow suit, and then where would these people go to get a degree?
This could end in a matter of weeks if the universities just stood up to these students.
The concept of a student administrative body should be abolished forthwith.
Sorry, the adults are back in charge, and if you can’t deal with life, go back to your mommy and daddy. We’re not coddling you here any longer.
Get back to your studies or leave.
Well it’s more than the tuition dollars, it’s the leftism of the college administrators and faculty. Because if a bunch of conservative students mis-behaved in this way (not that they ever would), they would be kicked out so fast their heads would be spinning. Campus administrators and faculty coddle these SJW scumbags because they like what they “stand for” overall, even if there may be a little tsk-tsk now and then at the tactics.
Nothing that severe. Really. The students got note placed in their files that will be removed when they graduate, with no record of disciplinary action having been taken against them. If they riot again next year they run the risk of receiving a toothless letter of reprimand, but the administration does not apply such stringent measures against first-time offenders.
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