The president of Pomona College declared students will face 'immediate suspension' after a pro-Palestinian protest in which protesters harassed staff and used a racial slur.
After a pro-Palestinian protest erupted at a California college on Friday, the president cracked down, saying that the students would be 'subject to immediate suspension.' President Gabrielle Starr of Pomona College in Claremont, California, addressed the campus community after she said a group of protesters refused to identify themselves to Campus Safety and Student Affairs staff and verbally harassed staff, including using an anti-black racial slur when speaking to an administrator.
For the past week, masked individuals who are part of a protest have occupied a portion of the Smith Campus Center lawn. This occupation was against our policies, but as we have expressed in the past, we work with students who are exercising their right to protest unless that protest impedes on the rights of others,' Starr wrote. On Friday morning, protesters in the demonstration on the SCC lawn voluntarily removed the tents they had been sleeping in, the president explained.
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