Students banned from campus for protest

[dogday]

Open Letter from the antiwar movement to SFSU President Corrigan

Dear Dr. Corrigan:

On Friday, April 14 ten SFSU students protested military recruitment at the university’s career fair. Campus police interrupted their protest and physically took the students from the school’s gymnasium where they were protesting. The police then notified the students that they were banned from campus.

You officially confirmed the ban that same day, and the campus chief of police notified students that if they returned to campus prior to April 28th, they would be “subject to immediate arrest.” When the students called to request a hearing, they were told they would have to wait until May.

We were glad to hear - for the sake of the students - that you withdrew the ban three days later, on Monday. Several students who lived or worked on campus became instantly homeless or unemployed by your arbitrary action. At this point, the students are waiting for the other shoe to drop, as they have heard no word as to whether disciplinary proceedings will come next. Students report that the university waited over a week to notify students of charges against them in a previous situation.

The world has witnessed a full display of intimidation tactics by SFSU against the students, from rough behavior when the police physically removed nonviolent students from the career fair, to your serving notice on them that they were banned — without a prior hearing — from campus for 2 weeks. Any pretense of due process was thrown out the window when your office informed them that they could not have a hearing until after their banishment ended. Now, they face the prospect of discipline. And for what?

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Earlier this academic year, student protesters were threatened with serious discipline at Holyoke Community College (MA), George Mason University (VA), Kent State University, Wisconsin at Madison, Hampton University (VA), and Pace University (NY). In each case, the university backed down in the face of an international outcry against repression of peaceful protests against war and military recruitment. Such an outcry is building now concerning SFSU’s actions.

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http://www.traprockpeace.org/sfsu/

[acmejack]

1. Filthy little blighters exercising their constitutional rights!

Who do they think they are anyway? Citizens or somebody?

[dogday]

2. What amazed me is the way the college tried

to silence their voices.... Worried about their federal funding, I quess....

[Ecumenist]

3. "SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY"???!!!

What the hell is this world coming to? Something is terribly wrong with this entire story...TERRIBLY WRONG

[dogday]

4. Colleges do not want to lose their federal funding

If you don't allow the Military recruiters on your campus, you could lose your federal funding.. That is what is wrong with these colleges.. Feds got them by the short hairs.... Goes for high schools as well.....