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  1. How do you arrest students for trespassing at their own college? At #Vanderbilt, this required a maneuver involving the rules and then calling in the police. The necessary side effect: cutting students off from housing and food they've paid for.
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      Vanderbilt students who began a sit-in around 9:15am were threatened with "interim suspension" at 11am, and were actually suspended by 3pm.
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        Interim actions are said "to ensure the safety and security of the campus community" and can take effect immediately without possibility of appeal. Applying these to protest seems to be a tactical innovation.
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          A suspended student is, in effect, rendered temporarily a non-student. The university then proceeds to treat them like a trespasser.
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            In Vanderbilt's case, the university relied on its own police force to carry out pseudo-arrests* of 22 students and actual arrests of 4. * "the students thought they were being brought out to be arrrested so followed."
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              Because the measure was designed to remove students threatening other people, it doesn't just kick them out of a building but out of campus. They can't go home to their dorms. They can't eat their meals. They can't attend class.
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                At #ColumbiaUniversity, something similar must be happening, but with the NYPD acting as enforcer and actually arresting everyone, this time for protesting on the grass.
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                  Signs point to the legal/procedural groundwork being the same. This may require lying and/or bending the truth. x.com/taliaotg/status/1781126919515238506?t=9OG-i21qjX3vQdu7N_h2zw&s=19
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                    Vanderbilt also sent suspensions to 6 suspected organizers first. One of them wasn't even in the Kirkland Hall sit-in. x.com/israhirsi/status/1780980484203327780?t=nUndUtjjnk51ozTO6QzpSw&s=19
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