For years, we have discussed the failure of universities to take actions against faculty and students shutting down events or acting unlawfully, including faculty guilty of criminal assault. Now, Vanderbilt has expelled three students after anti-Israel protests, including Jack Petocz, a political activist recognized by the White House and featured prominently in the New York Times and other news outlets.
According to the Vanderbilt Hustler and The College Fix, the students were arrested for allegedly assaulting a security guard amid raucous anti-Israel protests inside an Administration building late last month.
A security video shows a security officer overwhelmed as he tried to keep protesters out of Kirkland Hall.
The officer is shown being pushed down the hall before leaving the frame of the video camera.
Petocz posted a denial on X:
“I did not touch a community service officer, nor am I anywhere near the individual in the video. I’d implore you to trust a student activist over rich, powerful, white men, but that’s your choice.”
He insisted that he and the other students were only “peacefully protesting the genocide in Palestine.”
Petocz’s activism, including opposing the Florida parental rights law, has been widely celebrated in the media including an article that featured him in a January 2022 front story on fighting conservative school boards. President Biden invited him to the White House for a bill signing and took a picture with him in the Oval Office.
It appears that universities are growing impatient with protesters, particularly after a series of sit-ins. Recently, students were suspended for storming the office of Pomona College President Gabrielle Starr. Nineteen students were reportedly arrested.
Starr claimed in an open letter that racial slurs were used by students and declared:
“These actions are actively destructive of the values that underpin our community. Any participants in today’s events … who turn out to be Pomona students, are subject to immediate suspension. Students from the other Claremont Colleges will be banned from Pomona’s campus and subject to discipline on their own campuses.”
The actions of the university have led to protests on campus and calls for the student board to reverse that suspensions.
The Commodores are doing the right thing. The IslamoCommuNazis and their supporters must be punished and permanently expelled. If it were up to me, I would have them beaten senseless. It’s the only thing IslamoCommuNazis understand.
It’s not a shock that Progressives welcomed Americans to burn down cities in the 2020 election year. But now Progressives want to Genocide Gaza into rubble with American bombs and financing for one of the richest nations extant. And protesting THAT is a 3rd rail because Zionists bought and own both halves of the USA Uniparty.
Ouch, truth hurts
Professor Turley Writes:
Petocz’s activism, including opposing the Florida parental rights law, has been widely celebrated in the media..
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Turley goes on to reference a New York Times article from January of 2022 reporting on book bans across the country. Jack Petocz is only a brief mention in that story. But below are 3 sample paragraphs from that piece.
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Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. The American Library Association said in a preliminary report that it received an “unprecedented” 330 reports of book challenges, each of which can include multiple books, last fall.
Such challenges have long been a staple of school board meetings, but it isn’t just their frequency that has changed, according to educators, librarians and free-speech advocates — it is also the tactics behind them and the venues where they play out. Conservative groups in particular, fueled by social media, are now pushing the challenges into statehouses, law enforcement and political races.
Book challenges aren’t just coming from the right: “Of Mice and Men” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” for example, have been challenged over the years for how they address race, and both were among the library association’s 10 most-challenged books in 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/books/book-ban-us-schools.html
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KEY PASSAGE FROM ABOVE:
“According to educators, librarians and free-speech advocates”.
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Professor Turley is both an educator and free speech advocate. Yet he references book bans under the heading of ‘parental rights’. And Jack Petocz is some gayish gadfly challenging ‘parental rights’.
Here we see the concrete limits of Turley’s ‘free speech’ advocacy.
Somehow book bans are okay if Turley can reference ‘parental rights’. But Russian trolls and anti-vaxers are welcome to pollute our national discussion under the guises of ‘free speech’.
^^ Paid DNC troll. Ignore.
Sheila Jackson Lee explained:
“And sometimes you’ve heard the word ‘full moon,’…Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon,” which she then explained is a “complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases.”
How can any adult, much less a Yale graduate and congresswoman, be that stupid?
Yale and the electorate have much to answer fot.
Young said: “Sheila Jackson Lee explained”
I wasn’t aware who she was until I did a web search. Progressive Demoncraptic Congresswoman from Central Houston (a portion of the Lone Star State that desperately aspires to be transported to somewhere within the boundaries of the Marxist State of Californication). That really all I really needed to know. No surprise that such a dumb-ass would apparently confuse the Moon and Venus.
Number 6, Venus is not ‘mostly gas’.
Tch, tch, tch.
for., but maybe Jupiter.
David B. Benson said: “Number 6, Venus is not ‘mostly gas’.”
Mea culpa. Winged that comment when I should have taken more time to reflect. Venus is, as I recall, shrouded in c,loud, but is clearly not a gas giant. “Uranus” would probably have been an acceptable example (or perhaps hers)…