MO'^2 SFSU

From today’s LA Times (intrusive registration required):

San Francisco State announced Friday that it placed a Palestinian student organization on probation and cut off its funding for one year because of a campus confrontation last month.
The university also issued a letter of warning to a Jewish student group whose pro-Israel peace rally ended in the clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Nabeel Silmi, a San Francisco State junior serving as spokesman for the General Union of Palestine Students, called the sanctions against his group unfair.
“Things were said on both sides. However, the whole GUPS [being held] responsible for everybody’s comments on May 7 is completely unacceptable. We have sanctions put on us now, but we are going to continue to work with the administration, let them know what our opinion is, and where we stand. On an organizational level, we didn’t do anything wrong,” Silmi said.
Orli Bein, graduate program coordinator for San Francisco Hillel, said the university “has taken some important steps” to improve the atmosphere on campus.
But she said the warning letter campus officials sent to Hillel was inappropriate because of “the extreme care we’ve taken to abide by the rules.”
Bein called the letter a misguided “effort to criticize both sides to seem impartial.”

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  1. Date: 06/22/2002 00:00:00 AM
    In one of his columns at http://www.fredoneverything.net, Fred Reed says that college administrators evolved from jellyfish, but didn’t get very far. Thank God I went to college before the adolescents starting running the household.

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