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MichMan

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14. Students can be disciplined up to expulsion for various violations of college policy
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:57 PM
Mar 2025

Crimes have nothing to do with it. It isn't necessary that charges be filed and convictions occur. Just like I could be fired at work for sexual harassment, or racial comments without charges being filed.

If you are here on a student visa, getting expelled would certainly be grounds for revocation of the visa and likely deportation. There have been numerous instances of all the violations I mentioned at various colleges; isn't specific to just one student.

No one would have any issues at all with someone associated with a white supremacy group who was intimidating black students by burning a cross, or displaying a noose being expelled, would they? Why should Jewish students, who are subjected to anti semitic chants and glorification of Hamas terrorism, not be given the same respect?

Someone marching and hold a Free Palestine sign is free speech. Occupying buildings, vandalism and hate speech is a completely different story. All those things and more have occurred at different colleges in the last year. Frankly, they should have been prosecuted criminally as well, but Columbia and other colleges weren't willing to press charges. Some supporters of the Weather Underground characterized planting bombs in Government buildings as free speech, but that doesn't make it so.

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