Posted on 04/29/2024 2:19:53 PM PDT by grundle
A university in California issued a strongly worded statement Sunday after days of unrest on the campus resulted in anti-Israel agitators taking over two academic buildings, saying the cost of these illegal activities would be "in the millions."
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, or simply Cal Poly Humboldt, condemned the "lawless behavior" of the agitators and said the current rebellion "has nothing to do with free speech or freedom of inquiry."
"It is lawless behavior that has harmed the vast majority of our students whose education has been interrupted, damaged the reputation of our school, and drained resources from the accomplishment of our core educational purpose," said the university located in Arcata. As a result, the school added, it will be forced to shell out "millions" to repair the facilities. But, the true cost could be even worse.
"That includes damage done by theft, vandalism and graffiti, and the supplies and personnel needed to repair that, in addition to the loss of revenue from disruption to university operations," the university said. "But the true cost has been the disruption of the education of our students who came here to learn and get a college degree."
The university said its issue was not with the protest itself, but with the "ongoing unlawful occupation of campus buildings by students and non-students" and other "criminal acts" that include "vandalism, theft, destruction of state property and intimidation of University employees."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus to outsiders amid protests, occupation
Saturday afternoon, the university announced a “hard closure” of campus via a news release because of the ongoing protest and occupation, where people who do not live on campus are now prohibited from being present on campus.
...campus will be closed until May 10, the day before commencement.
Does this include FT students living off campus?
Cal Poly should sue the organizations that funded this.
But they won’t.
Fixed it for them.
“A university in California issued a strongly worded statement”
In capital letters and with triple exclamation points, I hope.
First step in asking the Fed’s to reimburse them for their losses.
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