UMass Amherst suspends three students over
maskless photo at off-campus party, banning
them from virtual learning and taking finals
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Holden Walter-Warner
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/8/2021 11:21:58 PM
One maskless photo at an off-campus party has cost three students at UMass Amherst their entire spring semester.
The three female freshmen were attending an off-campus party when they snapped the maskless photo, which was posted on Instagram.
It's not clear when the party took place, though one student has a clover on her shirt and many students are wearing green, suggesting it could date back to St. Patrick's Day.
A party known as the 'Blarney Blowout' is typically thrown at the school during March.
The three students have since been suspended from UMass Amherst, which may only be the beginning of their disciplinary problems at school.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sandbar 5/8/2021 11:38:28 PM (No. 779519)
Need help here but isn't there currently or a just decided case before the Supreme court dealing with a school disciplining a student for off campus behavior?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/8/2021 11:44:51 PM (No. 779520)
Self-righteous twits. These students have paid for and done all that was asked until being denied final exams. There exists a contract that the school has broken. Sad that these kids must sue to secure; 1: their rights and, 2: their damages. Hope Amherst has to eat into their endowment funds.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janjan 5/8/2021 11:49:49 PM (No. 779522)
These students off campus behavior, no matter what it is, is none of the Universities business. This is a blatant violation of their rights and needs to be shut down.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 5/8/2021 11:50:30 PM (No. 779523)
Definitely lawsuit time!!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2021 12:03:34 AM (No. 779530)
"You absolutely cannot pretend to be free!"
You MUST act like slaves!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/9/2021 12:07:07 AM (No. 779532)
If they play this right, not only will their degree be paid for, they will start off with a nice nest egg when they do graduate.
30 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimincalif 5/9/2021 12:17:14 AM (No. 779539)
Wikipedia says they have an endowment of $368 million. Even after the lawyers’ cut, that’s a nice chunk of change to go after.
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Three worthless progressives that will now have to live in their parent's basement.
They are all thinking...12 years of college down the drain.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/9/2021 1:18:54 AM (No. 779562)
the longer this goes on the more ridiculous it gets
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 5/9/2021 1:23:58 AM (No. 779565)
Let’s hope the parents understand their options, specifically, The US Bill of Rights.
However, if they trusted Amherst to educate their kidlettes, can’t be too sure.
KAG
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/9/2021 1:56:03 AM (No. 779577)
What business is it of the university to sideline students over an off-campus party?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
worried 5/9/2021 7:48:14 AM (No. 779667)
From what I understand, the major degree at UMass is Bachelor of Partying. At least it used to be, according to some ex-students.
8 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/9/2021 7:49:49 AM (No. 779669)
There they go trying to run people's lives wherever they may be. The left and their madness about running things and ordering people around has gotten way out of control. They think they're far greater than they really are. They're living breathing sewers who see themselves as gods.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/9/2021 8:43:18 AM (No. 779725)
I have ben complaining about Student Affairs operations at my university and others, for several decades.
They have seized control of academics, unfortunately, and no one knows what to do.
At my university, Student Affairs manufactured an edict that no student should be made to feel uncomfortable in class. My response was that I was paid to make students uncomfortable in class, using examples that made each student examine his or her own biases..
Student Affairs also asked me to put a sticker on my office door which would signify that I would offer a supportive environment to homosexual students.
My response was to refuse to do so - that I was insulted by their presumptions about me.
I have not taught in 20 years, but things appear to be worse than when I retired. And Student Affairs bears the blame.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Talk2 5/9/2021 9:35:16 AM (No. 779774)
Transfer to a Texas university but NOT UT-Austin. Stupidity rules in Austin which is to say the area is ruled by liberals and UT-Austin does not get a pass so avoid the Texas cesspool and pick, say, Texas Tech where rationality rules.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/9/2021 10:04:15 AM (No. 779798)
Thanks, Big Brother! /s
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/9/2021 10:21:37 AM (No. 779809)
Why anyone would even consider going to a Liberal Arts college is beyond me. That degree is virtually useless, hideous expensive, with years of student loans to pay back, and all for what? To play patty-cake with a bunch of self-absorbed narcissists who teach that the best country in the whole wide world is a hopeless cause? Doesn't seem to be working out too badly for UMass Amherst...they make TONS of money off the Commisar wanna be's, cough uh, students they fool into attend their their little Liberal pity party.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/9/2021 10:26:01 AM (No. 779812)
RE #15
I wish I could like your comment 10,000 times. My son attends Texas Tech and his experience there has been completely free of woke politics. There are some students who've been brainwashed into woke but they came there with that baggage, they didn't get it at Tech.
GO RED RAIDERS!!!!
GUNS UP!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/9/2021 10:45:14 AM (No. 779831)
Sounds like Germany in 1939, where citizens were arrested for not yelling 'Heil' loudly enough.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GO3 5/9/2021 11:26:31 AM (No. 779873)
I wish I could be as enthusiastic about Tech as others here, but I can't. Youngest daughter transferred in without woke baggage and encountered a prof who promoted white privilege crap right off the bat. Also, admissions and grades were biased towards kids of alumni and/or donations. Nothing unique of course, but shows Tech falls in line with the rest of them. She spent one year and then out to another university much more conducive to learning.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/9/2021 3:26:28 PM (No. 780085)
Re # 20
Can you provide the name of this teacher at Texas Tech? My boy has been there for 4 years and hasn't had a single teacher try this in any of my son's classes. He is pursuing a physics degree-what major is your daughter in? There aren't any woke in my son's STEM classes, thank God.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
GO3 5/9/2021 7:32:41 PM (No. 780219)
#21, this was two years ago and I’ll check. She was not a STEM major and the class was a Gen Ed requirement.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
GO3 5/11/2021 9:06:04 PM (No. 782466)
#21, the course was a Women's Studies course which was the only course available to fulfill a general ed requirement. After the propaganda speech my daughter did the next best thing and dropped the in person course and took it on line. Here is the link to the department: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/
Yes, even Tech has one of these departments. She cannot remember the name of the teacher.
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Absolutely ridiculous!! Were this MY child, not only would I be suing for refund of the $16k semester tuition, my child would be transferring to a university with working brains running it!!