Enough is enough. That is the message that some college administrations are sending about the pro-Hamas protests on campus.
A pro-Hamas protest erupted at Pomona College in Claremont, California on Friday. President Gabrielle Starr said the students would be “subject to immediate suspension.” She was reacting to protesters who refused to identify themselves to Campus Safety and Student Affairs staff. They were verbally abusive to staff. The students used an anti-black racial slur when speaking to an administrator.
“Any participants in today’s events on the SCC lawn or in Alexander Hall, who turn out to be Pomona students, are subject to immediate suspension,” Starr wrote in a letter to students on Friday evening.
“Students from the other Claremont Colleges will be banned from Pomona’s campus and subject to discipline on their campuses. All individual participants not part of…