Last Friday students who were involved in a March 3 building occupation at the California State University, Fullerton received notice that they would be charged with misdemeanor trespass. One student blogger claims that the students were told by police on March 3 that there would be no criminal charges filed against them.
The CSUF development is just the latest in a string of actions by California administrators and public officials in recent weeks intended to squelch student protest by any mechanism available. Elsewhere in the state …
- UC Santa Cruz is imposing fines of $944 each on 36 students who participated in an occupation of the campus’s Kerr Hall last semester.
- UCSC student Brian Glasscock is facing expulsion for his involvement in several non-violent campus actions, including the Kerr Hall takeover.
- San Francisco State University is imposing fines of more than $700 on eleven student activists.
- The ACLU of Northern California recently sent Berkeley administrators a letter charging that disciplinary proceedings against two student activists there violate the students’ constitutional rights to due process.
- Dozens of other Berkeley activists are facing severe punishments under murky judicial proceedings.
I’ll have more about all these stories going forward. If you have news about developments on other campuses, let me know.
Update | A UC Irvine student writes to say that he received a letter this afternoon indicating that he is being brought up on student conduct charges relating to his participation in a November budget demonstration on campus.
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April 20, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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April 20, 2010 at 3:36 pm
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At least one other Irvine student received a disciplinary letter this morning, solely for participating in the March 3 CSUF action. We suspect that as many as 5 students will be receiving these letters, including the student who was also arrested in November. It seems that this is a new campaign to punish students for not only campus-hopping, but system-hopping, suggesting that students aren’t even safe protesting OFF-campus.
April 21, 2010 at 2:47 pm
reclaim uc
off-campus jurisdictional claims for the applicability of student conduct charges are articulated differently at different UC campuses. but they mostly seem to include a paragraph like this:
this is the kind of clause that might let them get away with criminalizing students who have been active in on-campus protests.