‘Grasping at straws’: Inside Princeton’s disciplinary process for pro-Palestine students

January 09, 2025 1 min read

Olivia Sanchez and Annie Rupertus
Daily Princetonian 

Excerpt: In interviews with the ‘Prince,’ six students subject to University disciplinary proceedings described a tangled process that appeared fixated on searching for protest leaders to blame and employed tactics they described as invasive. The students were all investigated for supposed participation in pro-Palestine disruptions last spring. 

Their accounts, corroborated by dozens of documents reviewed by the ‘Prince,’ including emails and investigation records, provide a rare glance behind the scenes of the University’s investigative apparatus.

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