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“The administration is pretending nothing ever happened”: Suspended student protesters speak out

Several WashU students who were suspended after the April pro-Palestine campus protests interviewed with Student Life to recount their experiences with Washington University’s disciplinary process, discuss their grievances with the administration, and provide updates on their enrollment status.

and | News Editor and Staff Writer

Resolution calling to disarm WUPD, drop student suspensions, and for Chancellor Martin’s resignation is passed by Senate, vetoed by SU President

Student Union (SU) Senate passed a resolution calling for WashU to drop suspension cases against students and faculty, disarm the WashU Police Department, and create an Indigenous Studies department, Sept. 10. The resolution, which passed 11-7 with two abstentions, also called for Chancellor Andrew Martin to resign from his post. On the morning of Sept. 12, senior and SU President Hussein Amuri vetoed the resolution, saying that it would divide the student body. 

| Managing News Editor

Letter to the Editor: Formerly suspended faculty misrepresent April 2024 event; let’s pursue dialogue instead

I can only imagine the fear young Jewish college students felt when they were abruptly shaken from their studies to such violent chanting by unknown strangers who had descended upon their campus.

| WashU B.A. ’97; J.D. ’01, WashU Hillel CEO

An update on the faculty suspensions after April 27 Pro-Palestine protest

Six WashU faculty members —- four of whom were also arrested — were notified that they would be suspended with pay two days after their participation in the April 27 pro-Palestine protest on campus. All of the suspensions were lifted in late June, and most of the professors continue to teach at WashU. 

Several of the faculty members met with Student Life and detailed their suspension processes, provided updates on their employment status, and expressed their disappointment with how they were treated by the University. 

| News Editor

Opinion Submission: A letter from suspended faculty against genocide

We look forward to getting back to business, but not business as usual. After a 65-year-old man was nearly beaten to death by WUPD cops, after a hundred of us were violently arrested at a peaceful protest on our own front lawn, after the Board of Trustees has made clear it will not respect the will of student and faculty democracy, there can be no more business as usual.

The aftermath of April 27: protesters denounce police response, administration condemns encampment, and students and faculty suspended

Protesters have spoken out against Washington University’s administration after the WashU Police Department (WUPD) carried out more than 100 arrests at a pro-Palestine encampment, with some calling the response unnecessarily violent, April 27.

, and | Managing News Editor, Investigative News Editor, and News Editor

Three students suspended after protesting at admissions event 

Three Washington University students have been suspended by administration after participating in a pro-Palestine protest that disrupted a Bear Day event for admitted students on April 13. 

and | Managing News Editor and News Editor

Student demonstration in solidarity of suspended peers disbanded by administrators

Around 30 students stood outside the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to express support for senior RJ Lucas, who was suspended from Washington University following the pro-Palestine Bear Day protest. The students demonstrated while Lucas was meeting with the student conduct board around 2:45 p.m., April 17. 

| Editor-In-Chief

‘They will still be involved with the process, having fun, a part of the house’: Kappa Sigma places two pledges on suspension

Following accusations of sexual assault against students in Kappa Sigma’s spring pledge class, the fraternity placed two new pledges on suspension.

and | News Editors

WUPD discovers firearms in Phi Delt house, fraternity permanently suspended for violations of temporary suspension

Washington University Police Department officers searched and found an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon and handgun belonging to a member of Phi Delta Theta, who was suspended from the University Feb. 20. Phi Delta Theta will be permanently suspended from campus for violations of their temporary suspension.

| Contributing Reporter

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