[antiwar-van] Fw: York Student Expulsion

[Paul Browning]

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> Toronto Star May 4, 2004
> 
> 
> York U. expels student for 3 years
> 
> 
> LOUISE BROWN
> EDUCATION REPORTER
> 
> York University has expelled a student activist for
> three years for taking part in unauthorized campus
> protests and using a bullhorn that disrupted classes.
> 
> Third-year student Daniel Freeman-Maloy said he was
> told Friday he would be expelled the next day and will
> be charged with trespassing if he steps on school
> property.
> 
> University president Lorna Marsden said Freeman-Maloy
> - a Jewish student who is a vocal defender of
> Palestinian rights - had disrupted learning twice this
> year by holding protests inside Vari Hall, where
> classes take place, and using what she called an
> "unauthorized sound amplification device," or
> megaphone.
> 
> "This has nothing to do with politics, because there
> are other members of his group who have not been
> expelled. But it is about the repeated disruption of
> classes after several warnings," Marsden said
> yesterday. The expulsion cannot be appealed.
> 
> Freeman-Maloy was involved in a March 16 clash between
> pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups on campus. One
> group re-enacted an Israeli border checkpoint and
> another wore T-shirts saying, "If I were a suicide
> bomber, you'd be dead by now."
> 
> Marsden said Freeman-Maloy also broke the rules at a
> Vari Hall protest last fall when he used a bullhorn
> and failed to arrange a meeting with officials to
> discuss the breach in protocol.
> 
> Political science professor David McNally said he is
> "shocked to hear of such excessive punishment. I would
> have thought such measures would be taken only in
> cases of extreme violence or a criminal act, not using
> a megaphone during a student protest."
> 
> 
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