UC Irvine officials have formally recommended a one year suspension of the Student Muslim Union for their participation in the disruption of a school sponsored speech by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States earlier this year.
At that speech, 11 students were arrested for repeated interruptions of the event. Erwin Chermensky, the Dean of the UCI Law School wrote about the incident earlier this year (and diaried here)
After the first disruptions, the audience was admonished that such behavior was not acceptable within the university and that those who engaged in such conduct would be arrested and face student disciplinary proceedings. Despite these warnings, 11 individuals rose and shouted so that the ambassador could not be heard. At one point he left the stage, but thankfully was persuaded to return and deliver his address.
And now the university has completed its review and has released its report with recommendation that the group be banned for one year and its members be required to perform 50 hours community service.
LA Times
In making the suspension recommendation, Lisa Cornish, UC Irvine's director of student housing, found that the Muslim Student Union had "planned, orchestrated and coordinated in advance" an effort to disrupt a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on Feb. 8 about U.S.-Israeli relations. The recommendation was made in late May but not made public at that time.
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According to the report, the group's goal was to "send the speaker a message" and to develop a "game plan" to disrupt Oren's speech.
The plan included identifying students willing to participate, drafting scripted statements and urging supporters to attend and cheer each disruption. The plan also instructed students to deny that the Muslim Student Union organized the protest, according to the report.
None of our rights as citizens are unfettered. Disruption of a campus event sanctioned by the university is subject to disciplinary action by the administration.
And the discipline will be banning of the offending group for a year.