UChicago End the Repression: Reverse the Unlawful Eviction of Pro-Palestine Student!
On October 21, 2 Deans and 2 UCPD officers showed up at UChicago student A.’s door. They gave him just minutes to pack up a backpack before evicting him from his dorm, leaving him homeless. Admin informed him that if he returns to campus, he will be arrested. The Deans and UCPD told A. he was being placed on an involuntary leave of absence for his participation in a pro-Palestine protest at UChicago on October 11, during which police attacked protestors, beat students with batons, mass pepper-sprayed, and drove a squad car into a crowd. October 11 was A.’s first time going to a protest at UChicago. Now UChicago has forced him out of his home, threatened him with arrest if he returns to campus, and cut off his access to his meal plan—imposing an unjust, unlawful sanction on this student in violation of its own policies and state law.
The UChicago community is unified: an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. We demand that UChicago lift this forced leave of absence and let this student return to his housing and his education immediately!
