Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty

thehill.com Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty

Harvard University’s governing board rejected an effort from faculty Wednesday to allow a group of 13 students sanctioned due to their participation in pro-Palestine protests to receive their degre…

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It is pretty common to kick or suspend students who disobey oder misbehave in a University. Occupying University property is a dumb move.
I suggest they publicly excuse and next time act smarter, e.g. not trespassing private property during protest.
With a bit of honesty and luck they can graduate next year.
Call that a valuable lesson in Civil Law.
- Congratulations on knowing civil law, fuck you for not having basic human decency though.
  
  It's so funny the responses to this, it's basically 'rules shouldn't exist for people who agree with me politically'
  They chose civil disobedience as a moral stand, they chose consequences - that's how it works.
  
  Except college isn't a free service in the US. They paid for that degree and jumped through every hoop laid out. Now at the end, after spending 200,000 Dollars for that degree the school thinks they have a right to withhold it?
  I'd sue for that tuition back at the very least. The board just denying you the diploma is entirely capricious.

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