After pro-Palestinian protests broke out at a California university on Friday, the president cracked down on the students, saying they would be subject to “immediate suspension.”
Gabriel Starr, president of Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., said a group of protesters refused to identify themselves to campus safety and student affairs officials and used anti-Black racial slurs when speaking with officials. He addressed the campus community, saying he had harassed him. Administrator.
“Any participants in today’s event on the SCC lawn or in Alexander Hall who are identified as Pomona students will be subject to immediate suspension,” Starr wrote to students Friday night. stated in a letter.
“Other Claremont College students will be expelled from the Pomona campus and will face disciplinary action on their respective campuses. All individual participants who are not part of the Claremont College community are hereby expelled from campus immediately. ,” Starr said.
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Provost Gabriel Starr said following Friday’s incident that students who were protesting on campus would be immediately suspended. (Pomona College)
Members of the community who protest on campus in accordance with the university’s demonstration policy will not be affected, the president said.
According to the Claremont Courier, a heavy police presence arrived at the university on Friday in connection with the protests. At least 18 people were reportedly arrested.
Starr said ongoing protests have occupied parts of the campus center over the past week, but the campus has refrained from immediate action because students have expressed their right to protest.
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Members of the community who protest on campus in accordance with the university’s demonstration policy will not be affected by the suspension. (Google Maps)
“For the past week, masked protesters have occupied portions of the Smith Campus Center (SCC) lawn. This occupation is contrary to our policies, but as we have stated in the past, As such, we work with students who: Exercise their right to protest as long as the protest does not interfere with the rights of others,” Starr wrote.
The president explained that the tents in which demonstrators were sleeping on the SCC lawn on Friday morning were voluntarily removed. In preparation for the event scheduled for Sunday, campus staff, per university policy, began removing any remaining signage and other equipment, and asked students who were present to move the equipment. , otherwise it will be kept for collection.
The president said the protesters then verbally harassed campus staff and used racial slurs when speaking to campus administrators.
“This is unacceptable,” Starr said. “These actions actively subvert the values that underpin our community.”
The president said Friday’s protesters yelled abuse at campus officials and used racial slurs while speaking to campus administrators. (Google Maps)
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Staff and management offered to help move supplies to the Walker Wall.
Students were also repeatedly told to stop harassing them and to produce identification.
Starr said the protesters continued to harass staff for more than two hours while holding placards, but still refused to identify themselves.
“There is absolutely no excuse for this harassment, and there is no excuse for the refusal to identify on campus,” she wrote.
She said protesters then entered Alexander Hall under false pretenses and occupied her office.
