A student at Georgia’s Wesleyan College was reinstated after initially being expelled for social media posts that the school says it now realizes she did not make.
After an investigation and appeal from the student at the all-female campus, the school found that “new information” revealed that the expelled student was not involved in the posts in question.
On June 4, the student, who is remaining nameless, was expelled from the school for allegedly putting out a social media post that contained the n-word. The post was put out by an account claiming to be a student at Wesleyan. The same account also made a Halloween-related post featuring a woman in a green “Border Patrol” shirt posing as if she were arresting a man in a sombrero and serape. The photo was captioned “border?...secured. found him, met him & and just had to get a pic."
According to Wesleyan College Alumnae Board of Managers member Jan Lawrence, the board was told that the student provided information proving that a high school photo of the student had been downloaded and reposted by a third party who included the caption.
“On the morning we learned of the information, we launched an investigation and expelled the student that afternoon, giving her the right to appeal as provided in our policies,” college president Vivia Fowler said in an Instagram post.
The student did appeal, and was reinstated after the university found that “the student did not post the racist content.”
“On July 10, the Wesleyan Student-Faculty Judicial Board, comprised of two faculty members, two staff members and two members of student government, ruled in the student’s favor, overturning the expulsion effective immediately," Fowler said.
“The committee considered new information that we learned in the weeks following the student’s expulsion, which called into question the accuracy of the original information. This information shows that the student did not post the racist content in early June while enrolled at Wesleyan.”
A version of the statement posted by the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association includes a paragraph lamenting the fact that the process for the investigation was not carried out in a more equitable manner:
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15 comments:
Shoot first, ask questions later. Is this what our country has become?
The state that this country is in, people dying from a virus, a divided nation and you keep peddling biased racist stories many of which are false or taken out of context. God is speaking and you people aren’t listening. This is SAD.
Yeah well, racist or not, and no one cares what you all think, but it is still free speech...
How is that free speech going for white people ?
9:12- You don't get to dictate which stories are permissible! You just showed us all that you are a facist! That's what's SAD. Then, you claim to be a Christian, but you're judging everyone! Your post is a colossal failure. Go somewhere else if it bothers you, Karen.
Gee, guilty until proven innocent? When did our justice system adopt this mantra?
9:15 Only if you're a liberal.
Lawsuits for reacting to situations (PC) will hurt many small colleges. Reacting/shooting from the hip doesn't work - no matter how much one "FEELS".
Stop reacting Colleges/Universities - be proactive and move on.
This all will pass soon enough - how proactive the nation is will determine if change will transpire. If we just move to the next event (spawned by Lame Stream Media), then we have learned nothing.
EXACTLY! Same with Rape claims in colleges. Up to the accused to prove their innocence. They seem to be proud that it worked like it did on appeal. She should NOT have to appeal. Utter liberal nonsense.
Before you go feeling sorry for someone with a rape “claim” against them, put yourself in the shoes of the victim first. You have no idea of the shaming involved in making a “claim” of rape. I am not saying that false claims do not happen, but for every false claim there are several valid ones that go unprosecuted because of shaming and blaming the victim.
Funny how if a white person feels uncomfortable with vulgar talk or racial slurs being uttered by blacks or any other race they play the 1st amendment card even though there have been rulings about obscenity. The other part I love hearing about it how it is acceptable for them to say things because it is “cultural” for them. But if a white person says ANYTHING that can be deemed offensive....and it does not take a lot of imagination to offend people these days....society is ready to ruin someone’s life forever. I would really like to see the tables turned and the ACLU start getting involved in these cases for a change because what is going on IS infringing on the civil liberties of citizens.
Democrats like Susan Olsen
have done away with Due Process
The investigational process wasn't carried out, let alone equitably.
Did Salisbury University ever issue an apology to the White students for all they went through after it was finally revealed that a black man in his 5o's was responsible for writing racist sentences using the N word eight times at SU?
They all got a written statement bulging with the standard diversity and hate routine and a thanks to various law enforcement entities for breaking the case and getting a conviction. An apology? No, not really.
The school wants this to be forgotten.
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