Barry University has suspended a student reporter for her participation in a Project Veritas video that featured a university coordinator assisting in the creation of an ISIS club on campus.
The student journalist, identified only as Laura, recorded her efforts trying to launch a “Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,” student group last week.
This morning, she received an emailed notice from Maria Alvarez, the university’s associate vice president and dean of students, stating she had been suspended over allegations that her reporting violated the university’s Code of Conduct.
“In response to complaints filed by members of the University community on Wednesday, April 3, and received by my office this morning, April 6, 2015, your alleged actions were the cause root of disruption of the University community and the creation of a hostile environment for members of the University staff,” the notice read. “Because these alleged actions violate Barry University’s Code of Conduct, effective immediately you are placed on Interim Suspension from Barry University.”
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11 comments:
I think she should be tried as a terrorist and jailed for many years.
Agreed, 504. Just what mamby-pamby slap on the wrist is "Interim Suspension" going to do to a known terrorist except to make her laugh uncontrollably?
5:04 and 5:47, You are both as stupid as the staff members.
What about the Staff member offering her grant monies to promote her cause? What to do with him?
PS, Yes, my bad for missing the "Project Veritas" Mention. I am all for "PV".
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Screw her and Barry u.
Honor student my butt. Please release her the courses this idiot takes to become honor. Another free ride liberal A $$.
To commenters; Please lend your ears and eyes to YouTube, Project Veritas.
You will be glad you did.
Suspended?
How about some real justice. A public Hanging!!
I get the impression that most of the commenters have not grasped the kernel of this story. She was working undercover as a reporter for O'Keefe and PV when she approached the admins. Might wanna search a little on Google to get the whole story.
From what I get in a couple of related articles is that this woman's crime is videotaping "undercover footage portraying professors as ISIS supporters..."
So, was this a college newspaper reporter's idea to root out ISIS supporters and then write a story about it, a ruse of an organization to get ISIS to come out of the woodwork? If it was, and she was successful in releasing it, it would be pretty damning to the university's reputation for readers to see that it harbored ISIS sympathizers among its professional teaching staff.
It looks as though the university's Code of Conduct has a very wide-sweeping rule about upsetting the apple cart, sort of like the military's UCMJ Article 15, which prohibits a member from doing anything that makes the service look bad.
I'm interested in how all of this will shake out, and what her lawyer(s) will say and do. Is it a civil rights case? Will the university have more to say about its ISIS sympathetic professors?
The university's board needs to look at its staff. Diversity is one thing, but supporting an organization that murders, rapes and terrorizes to promote its "religious views" is waaaaay too liberal.
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