9mo ago

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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9mo ago

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

thehill.com /homenews/education/4680598-harvard-board-bars-13-pro-palestine-student-protesters-from-graduating-overruling-faculty/

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- 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.