Sixty-seven graduate college students on the College of California, San Diego, are going through disciplinary motion after protesting at an alumni awards occasion Might 5, the Los Angeles Occasions reported.
Letters from the coed affairs workplace accused the scholars of violating conduct guidelines by assaulting UCSD chancellor Pradeep Khosla once they “bumped” into him as they stormed the stage and took his microphone. However protesters argue that by no means occurred, and in line with the Occasions, a grainy reside stream of the occasion offers little readability.
The scholars mentioned they had been protesting the college’s failure to uphold a contract with the United Auto Staff 2865, the union that represents greater than 36,000 College of California scholar employees, after the events reached a settlement promising pay will increase following a five-week strike final yr.
Some college students accused of misconduct declare they weren’t even current on the demonstration. One Ph.D. candidate hoping to graduate in December informed the Occasions a witness had recognized him in a picture of the protest. However he mentioned he has a time-stamped {photograph} and testimony from a campus employees member proving he was truly on campus when the demonstration was taking place.
College students will have the ability to “to inform their aspect of the story” in the course of the disciplinary hearings, a college spokesperson informed the Occasions in an e mail.
The assertion additionally responded to allegations that the college had breached its contract with the union.
“If unions or particular person union members imagine that the college just isn’t in compliance with its contractual commitments, collective bargaining agreements set up orderly processes to file grievances and have them adjudicated. Calculated disruption of official college enterprise is rarely applicable,” it learn.