Posted on 04/28/2024 8:56:11 AM PDT by karpov
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
Terms of the suspensions vary from campus to campus. At Columbia and its affiliated Barnard College for women, Alwan and dozens more were arrested April 18 and promptly barred from campus and classes, unable to attend in-person or virtually, and banned from dining halls.
Questions about their academic futures remain. Will they be allowed to take final exams? What about financial aid? Graduation? Columbia says outcomes will be decided at disciplinary hearings, but Alwan says she has not been given a date.
“This feels very dystopian,” said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major.
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“This feels very dystopian,” said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major.”
Read as “future parasite on society”.
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I would like for every single one to be put on a website so employers can ID them.
Tuff. You break the law, and gee-wowie—there are CONSEQUENCES, fools!
Qther wise known as “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the crime.”
Put their names and mugshots on the internet. It will follow them forever.
“This will go down on your permanent record” said the school marm.
Other wise known as “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
Sheesh
“This feels very dystopian,” said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major.”
LOL. Just tears yer heart out, don’t it. I was wondering what phony baloney bullshit “studies” major this might be.
When you join the Nazi side of things, you trashed your reputation. It sucks to be a stooge.
They can always get a job at the UN or the US State Dept. They love Hamas too.
Officially sanctioned protected “groups” have suffered no discernable consequences that I’ve observed, from out here in the cheap seats.
Can you think of any in the last say, 40 years or so? If so, list 11 more.
“Comparative literature and philosophy”. That major just wreaks of “student loan forgiveness” and a supervisory barista at Starbucks.
Is she a foreign student as well taking a seat from an American because her s**thole country is paying full freight? Many of these protestors are here on international student visas.
Pull all of their visas and boot their asses outta here.
These people are too stupid to be hired by anyone. And any company that hires them is even dumber than they are.
Suspended?
They ought to be expelled and be forced to pay back 100% of all student loans plus interest within 90 days of expulsion. If they are here on a student visa, they are immediately deported and banned from ever returning.
Exactly.
If they're over 18 and in college, they are already adults.
Well said.
Oh, I observe the same. My point was not that consequences are inevitable or consistent; rather that when they do occur, one shouldn't expect to escape them, if they result from established law or convention.
She is going to walk right down to the big comparative literature and society firm in down, ask the resptionist to get her an application and to page the president of the company so he can receive a firm handshake from his next junior executive.
Or onlyfans, probably onlyfans.
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