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At the Rochester Institute of Technology, a student government senator was impeached last month after defending the rights of others to wear Thin Blue Line masks on campus.
According to the College Fix, the effort to impeach student Senator Jacob Custer began in January after he defended the masks through the student government’s group messaging app.
In the app, one student discussed filing a bias report after a campus safety officer wore a Thin Blue Line face mask, to which Custer replied that it was “perfectly ok” for the officer to wear what they wanted.
“Wearing such masks if they want to is not counterintuitive,” wrote Custer. “It is perfectly okay for students and adults to express it since it is free speech. It is not disrespectful either. We are student government, representing all students. It is not our role to determine what idea is good or bad simply because a few members or more disagree with it and punish members of our community over something small. That is just outright censorship.”
“[I]t’s honestly humorous that a White man is going to sit here and try to tell someone of color, more specifically Black, when something is or isn’t racist,” one senator replied to Custer.
Another wrote, “Breaking news: Jacob Custer is angry and taking a stand against people of color because he isn’t allowed to disagree with the idea that Black people don’t deserve to be murdered.”
This prompted other senators to create a petition calling for Custer’s removal.
Custer’s impeachment was announced in a February 26 email to students from RIT President David Munson, who said the impeachment decision will be reviewed for any violations of the university’s free speech policies.
“Earlier today, we learned that the Student Government Senate voted to uphold the Standards Review Board’s decision to impeach an elected member of the Student Government Senate,” wrote Munson. We felt strongly that it was proper and necessary for the Student Government to follow and complete the process outlined in their Student Government Bylaws.
“However, the question of whether the decision may have violated university policy C.11, protecting free speech and expression, has been raised,” wrote Munson.
“As is always the case, the RIT President’s Office reserves the right to review any decision that may violate RIT policy. To ensure that no RIT policies have been violated, I will be assembling a Review Panel, which will include members of the RIT Board of Trustees and others, to review the evidence and decisions from the Standards Review Board and the appeal process.”
For the full report, click HERE.
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At the Rochester Institute of Technology, a student government senator was impeached last month after defending the rights of others to wear Thin Blue Line masks on campus.
According to the College Fix, the effort to impeach student Senator Jacob Custer began in January after he defended the masks through the student government’s group messaging app.
In the app, one student discussed filing a bias report after a campus safety officer wore a Thin Blue Line face mask, to which Custer replied that it was “perfectly ok” for the officer to wear what they wanted.
“Wearing such masks if they want to is not counterintuitive,” wrote Custer. “It is perfectly okay for students and adults to express it since it is free speech. It is not disrespectful either. We are student government, representing all students. It is not our role to determine what idea is good or bad simply because a few members or more disagree with it and punish members of our community over something small. That is just outright censorship.”
“[I]t’s honestly humorous that a White man is going to sit here and try to tell someone of color, more specifically Black, when something is or isn’t racist,” one senator replied to Custer.
Another wrote, “Breaking news: Jacob Custer is angry and taking a stand against people of color because he isn’t allowed to disagree with the idea that Black people don’t deserve to be murdered.”
This prompted other senators to create a petition calling for Custer’s removal.
Custer’s impeachment was announced in a February 26 email to students from RIT President David Munson, who said the impeachment decision will be reviewed for any violations of the university’s free speech policies.
“Earlier today, we learned that the Student Government Senate voted to uphold the Standards Review Board’s decision to impeach an elected member of the Student Government Senate,” wrote Munson. We felt strongly that it was proper and necessary for the Student Government to follow and complete the process outlined in their Student Government Bylaws.
“However, the question of whether the decision may have violated university policy C.11, protecting free speech and expression, has been raised,” wrote Munson.
“As is always the case, the RIT President’s Office reserves the right to review any decision that may violate RIT policy. To ensure that no RIT policies have been violated, I will be assembling a Review Panel, which will include members of the RIT Board of Trustees and others, to review the evidence and decisions from the Standards Review Board and the appeal process.”
For the full report, click HERE.