Faculty call on Purdue to back off student discipline tied to Gaza encampment

University Senate will consider a resolution Tuesday, a week after pro-Palestinian demonstration breaks on campus with no arrests. Purdue: Disciplinary actions ‘were duly initiated.’

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FACULTY CALL ON PURDUE TO BACK OFF STUDENT DISCIPLINE TIED TO GAZA ENCAMPMENT

Faculty members on Purdue’s University Senate are calling on university officials to stand down and rescind potential disciplinary action aimed at four students who were part of a 12-day pro-Palestinian encampment on Memorial Mall in the final days of the spring semester.

The Senate will hold a special meeting Tuesday morning to consider a resolution that labels the university’s approach to the demonstration as “heavy-handed and arbitrary” and that the faculty-led body “strongly objects to the steps taken by the university to criminalize student protest on campus.”