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UCI upholds sanction on Muslim Student Union

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has upheld its decision to sanction its Muslim Student Union (MSU), though it cut short the group’s yearlong suspension to four months. The group may not officially use university facilities during the fall 2010 quarter, recruit new members or raise funds, all part of the fallout for what school officials deemed the MSU’s violation of university codes of conduct related to the repeated disruption of a speech on campus in February by Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

Free Speech or Harassment?

When UCLA librarian Jonnie Hargis this month sent out an e-mail to everyone on the library\’s list, he had no idea the chaos he\’d cause on campus.

Hargis wrote in his e-mail that United States taxpayers \”fund and arm a state called Israel, which is responsible for untold thousands upon thousands of deaths of Muslim Palestinian children and civilians.\” He ended his message with: \”So, who are the \’terrorists\’ anyway?\”

Establishing Boundaries

For those who look up to the American Jewish clergy, it has not been a good year. Last week, one of the Reform movement\’s most prominent rabbis was suspended from the movement\’s rabbinical association for past sexual misconduct.

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