Wednesday, October 08, 2003
The H word!
Slipping in under the radar, two sets of hearings seem to be going on for issues which I had assumed were dropped.
BSTW members, including our good buddy Snehal, are facing hearings for, if I recall correctly, occupying Sproul hall. A phrase which anyone who covers protests has on macro appears here, of course: "The district attorney dropped all charges."
Why only these three? 119 were arrested, and the list of charges would probably include all 119 of them. What makes the university think they can pull this off? I certainly don't think so. Snehal is like Teflon(TM). The university axed academic quality just to accomodate him. The protest in question was peaceful, if I remember properly. If they couldn't score a victory when classes are being disrupted and police officers are being bitten, how on Earth do they think they can score a victory on a peaceful protest which occupied an administration building?
But wait, there's more! Below a completely irrelevant story about some guy getting arrested, we learn that Student Judicial affairs is holding hearings for the two students caught stealing newspapers in the whole "don't put pictures of black men getting arrested on your newspaper" flap. Once again: "Alameda County Assistant District Attorney John Adams said that his office would not pursue its case."
Kudos to the Daily Cal for putting lookouts to watch their newspapers get stolen, by the way. (The sad part about that article is that, at the end, they list three other instances where the newspaper has been stolen in the past, and that's not even a complete list)
Unlike the protestor case, this one is actually winnable, though I doubt the university'll come down particularly hard on either student.
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