MSU Suspension Decision Reached
Traci Garling Lee | Sep 03, 2010 | Comments 5
UC Irvine officials today reached a final decision regarding the suspension of the campus’s Muslim Student Union. Although the original recommendation back in May called for a year-long suspension, officials today announced they would uphold the suspension only through Dec. 31. MSU must also complete 100 hours of community service and then will then remain on probation through December 2012.
“This has been a difficult decision,” said Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez in an email sent out to students Friday evening. “But in the end, this process demonstrates the University of California Irvine’s commitment to values, principles and tolerance. Although this has been a challenging experience for all involved, I am confident that we will continue to move forward as a stronger, more respectful university community.”
For more about the history behind MSU’s suspension, see the July 13 online issue of the New University.
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Too bad it wasn’t for the entire year. I was hoping for a quiet Spring for once. Guess not.
i would have believed “commitment to values, principles and tolerance” and “more respectful university community.” if he suspended anteaters for isreal years ago, for all of their actions that interrupted and harassed msu speakers, not to mention their slanderous actions against the group. i won’t forget the time the anteaters for israel had some kid dress up with a stereotypical look,mocking and pretending to be arab, holding a sign reading “death to americans.” this totally twisted the image of the event, which had nothing to do with the msu’s events,at all. that event was specifically criticizing israel’s illegal policies towards an occupied people, not america. (the msu members consider themselves proud americans) where was the universities, policies of respect when these types of slanderous acts were continuously carried out? why punish the msu for speaking out in non-slanderous ways, when the other group acts out against the msu in these type of ways? yes the msu interrupted the event where the ambassador of israel came to speak, but double standards, especially as obvious as this, on campus should not exist. also, the msu student’s actions were applauded by members of the faculty for their peaceful activism against a man who represents a country that tries to justify war crimes deems illegal by the international community.
This should not slow down the campaign to get rid of UC Irvine investments in the apartheid state of Israel.
Will the use of the word “Israel” in a less-than-loving manner be cause for suspension, too?