McGill issues campus bans to student strikers
From CKUT Local Journalism Initiative · 00:43:52
Show by Jules Bugiel
Episode Notes McGill banned a handful of students and community members from campus for 15 working days, after they took part in classroom disruptions during a week of departmental strikes for Palestine. To ban students from campus, there must be reasonable grounds that a “student’s continued presence constitutes a serious physical or psychological threat to the well-being of themselves or others”; and this threat “cannot be alleviated or remedied by less severe means.” That code, which came into effect Nov. 12, increased the suspension time from 10 days to 15, and mandated rather than encouraged these suspensions. When reached for comment, McGill failed to explain how the students’ behaviour met the threshold. They said instead that “McGill is firmly committed to freedom of expression and peaceful protest, while ensuring the safety of all members of our community and protecting students’ learning rights.” The Dean of Students did not respond. CKUT spoke to one of the banned students about how the measures were impacting her life.
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