LAT Follow Up

USC Defends Tough Response


Important clarification :
USC alleges that the students' "disruptive behavior has interfered with the normal functioning of university business."

The students on the inside, the one's served with immediate interim suspension, were not disrupting university business. They were sitting in a waiting room, with a clear path from door to door, spending time sitting, reading, working on laptops.

The students outside, it could possibly argue, were 'disruptive' by holding a loud vigil all day.

But it was the students on the inside that were served with suspension for disruption, not the ones being loud.

Also served in the letter...

permitting others to engage in misconduct prohibited within the university community. Failing to confront and prevent the misconduct, notify an appropriate university official of the misconduct..

is apparently against the rules as well. So theoretically, not only all the students protesting outside, but all students who walked by the students protesting outside, who failed to call DPS and alter them to the supposed disruptance (which, I assume is what the school was trying to allude to, since offices were not disturbed) should also be hauled in and charged with something.