Good day all. This story slipped under the radar. During the Pro-Hamas protests that the modern Hitler youth were engaging in, a group of “Students” at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst conducted a sit in and were arrested. Now they are being told that they will not be allowed to study abroad.
This has come as a shock the precious snowflakes who were arrested. They are decrying the unfairness of it all. Here are the details from the Daily Hampshire Gazette:
At least one of three UMass Amherst students denied the chance to study abroad next semester after being arrested for participating in the October sit-in protests against the war in Gaza has raised the possibility of bringing a federal lawsuit against the university.
Shay Negrón, the attorney representing the student, said her client had appealed the sanctions against them by university administration for occupying the school’s Whitmore Administration Building late into the night while participating in the protest, in which 56 students and one faculty member were arrested on charges of trespassing after they remained in the building after it closed.
The university subsequently imposed the sanctions, saying the students violated a student code of conduct they agreed to when enrolling at the university.
Wait? UMass Animal Amherst has a code of conduct? Who knew?
Despite an ongoing review process to appeal the sanctions, Negrón’s client — who she declined to name — said they were informed by the school’s International Programs Office (IPO) that they were ineligible for their planned study abroad programs for the coming semester. That decision has left her client on the hook for around $20,000 in fees related to the study abroad program, as well as causing a struggle to find student housing and to register for classes for the spring semester.
“We’re saying that you are oppressing my client and their right to the First Amendment,” Negrón said in an interview with the Gazette. “They shouldn’t be disproportionately reprimanded for any of these things that they were doing when they were exercising their right for free speech.”
To this I say, bullshit! Everyone has the right to say what’s on their mind. What you do not have the right to do is break the law. These spoiled brats were told to leave or else and they refused. So the “Or Else” was activated and they were arrested. That makes them “Criminals.” I don’t know if the cases have gone to trial yet, so I guess I should say “Alleged Criminals.”
The school has said that the decision banning their chance to go party overseas, I mean study, could be overturned. (Personally, I hope not but this is a communist reeducation center school) The problem for the spoiled brats is that review isn’t happening fast enough.
Negrón said that since her client is undergoing an appeal process, which does not take place until January, they should not be denied studying abroad until the appeal is reviewed and a ruling is made.
“When you’re no longer in good standing, that’s what sparks this issue, but doing the sanction review was supposed to stop that,” she said.
It’s mid-January, however I don’t know when the review takes place, or if it already has. As far as I’m concerned, the “Client” should not only lose the ability to study overseas, he or she should be expelled from Umass.
Negrón said that if the sanction review hearing does not go favorably for her client, they would seek remedies in federal court.
That should take months before the preliminary stuff even reaches a federal courtroom.
“By imposing these sanctions on my client, UMass is sending a very disturbing message: If anyone exercises their right to free speech on this particular subject matter on this campus, they will be severely punished,” Negrón said. “This is very serious and scary.”
First, as I mentioned before, this isn’t a free speech case. It revolves around Negron’s client violating the law. I do understand that a lawyer will use over the top phrases to push the interests of their client. Second, I looked up Shay Negron since I was curious. Umm, yeah.
If I have identified the correct person, and I will not put put out any personal data of the person I think this is, then we have the standard “Starving lawyer.” The person I found has been a practicing lawyer for about a year. Other information I’ve found on social media sites makes me think she is not going to be a Trump supporter. Oh well, if this is the person, I suspect her rates aren’t to high. (Cheap Lawyer)
In a statement to the Gazette, UMass Amherst spokesperson Ed Blaguszewski said that the students being barred from study abroad in the next semester was in keeping with the policy of the school and the International Program Office.
Basically, they broke the rules. Life’s tough. It sucks to be them.
After the students were arrested in October, UMass officials said they recognized the right of students to demonstrate on campus as being consistent with the university’s commitment to free speech and the advocacy of opinions and ideas protected under the First Amendment.
I don’t disagree. They may be a pack of antisemitic, pro-terrorist Nazi wannabes, but they have every right to march around, yelling “Sieg Heil From the River to the Sea.” What they don’t have any right to do is break existing laws such as trespassing.
“The arrests were based on the refusal by those arrested to comply with a lawful order by UMass Police to leave the building,” Blaguszewski said at the time.
So they did receive fair warning. They just decided to ignore it. The University is following Standard Operating Procedures and that they’ve done this in the past. I doubt that Negron’s client or any of the other precious snowflakes will prevail. The are now learning what FAFO means. They Fucked Around, and now they are Finding Out.
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