Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at UF are kicked out of school for up to 4 years

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by petronius (a host of the California group).

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at UF are kicked out of school for up to 4 years
The university’s new dean of students, Chris Summerlin, overruled recommendations for lighter punishments.

GAINESVILLE — In secretive hearings, the University of Florida set aside recommendations to lightly punish some of the college students arrested after pro-Palestinian protests on campus and kicked them all out of school for three to four years.

The decisions by the new dean of students, Chris Summerlin, overruled what were effectively sentencing recommendations by the juries, known as hearing bodies, who heard testimony and watched police video of the protests and arrests during the disciplinary cases.

The students were among nine people whom university police and Florida state troopers arrested April 29 during a demonstration on a plaza on the University of Florida campus. They were among the first college arrests in Florida, and all remain banned from university property.

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The university suspended Roseanna Yashoda Bisram, 20, of Ocala for three years, the same duration as the hearing body recommended. Augustino Matthias Pulliam, 20, a freshman theater major from Jacksonville, also was suspended three years. Charly Keanu Pringle, 21, of Jacksonville said she had been suspended for three years in a separate disciplinary process at nearby Santa Fe College, but that was not true. Pringle hadn’t been a student there since spring last year, according to school records, and administrators said she had not been suspended.

The seven students said they have submitted appeals to overturn their punishments, which they said were pending.

The suspensions mean that each would need to reapply for admission to UF. The only worse punishment would have been to expel them, which would have prevented them ever from returning.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2024/07/09/university-of-florida-protests-arrests-palestine-suspensions-punishment/

[moniss]

1. UF isn't the only school in the country people can attend

and I suggest that students who are supportive of these other students, and disagree with the conduct of the university administration, apply for admission to other universities, transfer their credits and, most importantly for their desire to have an impact on the university itself, remove all of that annual student loan/student aid money from the coffers of UF.

Sometimes in activism it is more effective to withdraw from attending/financially benefiting an institution than to try and remain inside and fight for change while being patted on the head and given empty rhetoric from the people running the institution.

Protesting on campus may draw media attention for you and for a moment or so give you visibility but believe me when I say the administration at most of these colleges are far more impacted by financial moves than they are anything else. When good professors leave and the ranking of a degree from that school slips it factors into student enrollment and money to the university. For example UW-Madison had for years been one of the top schools in the rankings by US News and others. The year before Scott Walker took office and began gutting the university it ranked 13th. By the end of his first term it ranked 47th. We have now fought our way back up a little to 35th and could be even better but we still are in something of a stranglehold by the GQP.

So if I'm hiring a candidate and they both have equivalent GPA and course background I'm going to be more in favor, other things being equal, of the candidate from the school ranked 13th as opposed to 47th. When the gap is that large it has to be recognized as a factor in evaluating the quality of the education/degree.

[Historic NY]

2. Why did she lie trying to get street cred

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2024/07/10/florida-college-student-lied-about-being-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protest/]

[MichMan]

3. What does this have to do with California?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. ooops. I was reading a number of articles about this topic. one was in California. when posting, i forgot I was

in the region forum

[petronius]

5. Locking. Sorry, but doesn't fit the SoP of the California forum.

Please feel free to repost in Florida or GD...