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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> My point is precisely is one SHOULD expect to get away with all this nonsense provided he or she is a “protected” group.
Freaking special snowflakes, so entitled. F em.
It will be a plus, on their resumè for a federal job.
““This feels very dystopian,” said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major.”
A comparative literature and society major?
In other words she’s going to be a deadbeat with $100k+ in college debt working in the food services sector where she gets to say “Welcome to ________, may I take your order?”
Theres always going to be a number with your name.
someone cue up some merle haggard for this whinner.
Nope. Barred, put on transcripts and has to pay all loans back.
To you spoiled, self-absorbed little dirtbags, it figures that having to face consequences for your actions would feel “dystopian.” You don’t even know the meaning of the word, you little drama queen. Zip it.
Find them, catch them, deport them.
The whole f’n bunch of them
Teach them to swim the Rio Grande river in a southerly direction.
Do this for the next 20 years.
Consequences have NOT been forthcoming in America for a long time.
Tomorrow the sun rises in the West according to your logic.
General stupidity most likely explanation.
They should be forced to watch the video of Oct 7th at least 5 times and then write a paper on why protesting for hamas was wrong.
Eh, she may be SOL because I really don't think there is much of a demand for the fugly captain caveman look: 🤮🤮🤮🤮
I guess these ‘kids’ didn’t plan their futures too well.
bingo
Uh... SHOULD be!
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