哈佛大学学生游行 要求取消对营地抗议者的纪律处分
【中美创新时报2024 年 5 月 19 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）周日（19日）下午，哈佛的亲巴勒斯坦示威者游行到校长家，呼吁政府撤销他们所说的哈佛大学对参与哈佛庭院营地已解散的学生的一些纪律处分。《波士顿环球报》记者艾琳·道格拉斯（Erin Douglas）对此作了下述报道。
数百名抗议者从哈佛校园的约翰斯顿门（周日仍不对公众开放）游行到几个街区外临时大学校长艾伦·加伯的住所，然后结束了在剑桥公园的游行。 一些学生戴着毕业帽和毕业袍，戴着阿拉伯头巾，这些围巾已成为支持巴勒斯坦民族主义运动的象征。
据计划为期 20 天的露营活动的哈佛脱离被占领巴勒斯坦学生联盟称，自周二露营活动结束以来，哈佛大学已对 32 名学生进行了留校察看，要求其中 5 名学生退出，并阻止至少 14 名学生毕业。
一些学生抗议者告诉《波士顿环球报》，他们正处于缓刑期，不被允许在定于周四举行的毕业典礼上行走。其他人表示，他们正面临纪律处分，最终可能会被停职。
该组织的领导人在演讲中表示，这些纪律处分令活动人士感到惊讶，并且与他们对大学管理人员上周与联盟做出的自愿结束营地承诺的理解不符。
“哈佛学生现在面临着停学、驱逐和驱逐出境的前景，”哈佛大学研究生会组织者、研究生萨尔·苏里 (Sal Suri) 说。 “哈佛认为我们的行为值得严厉的纪律处分。 它蔑视学生和学生工人的道德勇气。”
哈佛大学发言人贾森·牛顿在周六晚间的一份声明中告诉《波士顿环球报》，加伯与营地组织者的沟通并未提及纪律程序的结果，而是承诺鼓励大学纪律机构在遵循现有先例的同时加快这一程序。
哈佛校园的营地是上个月在全国校园中出现的众多营地之一，以应对加沙正在进行的战争。据加沙卫生部称，自 10 月 7 日哈马斯袭击以色列以来，以色列军队已杀死至少 35,000 名巴勒斯坦人 造成约 1,200 人死亡，其中大部分是平民，并劫持了约 250 名人质。
在周日的抗议活动中，学生们表示，他们对大学管理层反悔感到愤怒。他们说，这是该大学如何以不同于其他表达形式的方式对待支持巴勒斯坦人的抗议活动的一个例子。
“每一个遵守纪律的学生，每一个被停学的学生，都比这个机构里每一个腐败的哈佛管理者加起来都更清醒、更有道德勇气和更勇敢，”法学院三年级学生塔拉·阿尔福卡哈(Tala Alfoqaha)在加伯家外说道。
在家外，抗议者在人行道上用粉笔写下信息，包括“披露并撤资”、“你手上沾满了鲜血”和“让加沙活下去”。
几位发言者告诉人群，面临纪律处分的学生站在历史的正确一边。
哈佛二年级学生科乔·阿奇姆蓬 (Kojo Acheampong) 说：“他们可能会在这一刻诽谤你，但历史会赦免我们所有人。”
集会于下午 2 点刚开始，剑桥警察局的人员数量极少。并于下午 5 点结束。 警察指挥游行路线周围的交通，但很少与抗议者接触。几名哈佛大学警察在车道上守卫着加伯的家，看着人群在人行道和街道上示威。
本报告使用了美联社的材料。
题图：周日，哈佛在约翰斯顿门举办的“走出被占领的巴勒斯坦”集会上标语。DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/GLOBE STAFF
附原英文报道：
Harvard students march, demanding reverse of discipline for encampment protesters
Protesters marched to the home of Harvard University interim president Alan Garber
By Erin Douglas Globe Staff,Updated May 19, 2024
CAMBRIDGE — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Harvard marched to the university president’s home Sunday afternoon to call on the administration to reverse some disciplinary actions they say the university took against students involved in the since-disbanded encampment on Harvard Yard.
Hundreds of protesters marched from the Johnston Gate of Harvard Yard, which remained closed to the public Sunday, to the residence of interim university president Alan Garber a few blocks away, before ending the march on Cambridge Common. Several students wore their graduation caps and gowns, along with keffiyeh scarves that have become symbols of support for the Palestinian nationalist movement.
Since the encampment ended Tuesday, Harvard has placed 32 students on probation, required five to withdraw, and prevented at least 14 from graduating, according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, the student coalition that planned the 20-day encampment.
Some of the student protesters told the Globe that they are on probation and would not be allowed to walk at commencement, which is scheduled for Thursday. Others said they are facing disciplinary proceedings that could end in suspension.
The group’s leaders said during speeches that the disciplinary actions surprised the activists and did not align with their understanding of the promises they say university administrators made with the coalition to voluntarily end the encampment last week.
“Harvard students now face the prospect of suspension, eviction, and deportation,” said Sal Suri, a graduate student who is an organizer with the Harvard Graduate Students Union. “Harvard considers our actions worthy of severe disciplinary action. It has treated the moral courage of its students and student workers with contempt.”
Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton told the Globe in a Saturday evening statement that Garber’s communications to encampment organizers did not speak to the outcomes of the disciplinary processes, but instead promised to encourage the university’s disciplinary bodies to expedite the process while following existing precedents.
The encampment on Harvard Yard was one of many that emerged on campuses nationwide last month in response to the ongoing war in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed at least 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 250 hostages.
At the Sunday protest, students said they were angry about what they perceive to be the university’s administration going back on its word. They said it was an example of how the university treats protests supporting Palestinians differently than other forms of expression.
“Every disciplined student, every suspended student, has more clarity, more moral courage, and more bravery than every corrupt Harvard administrator at this institution combined,” said Tala Alfoqaha, a third-year law school student, outside Garber’s home.
Outside the home, protesters chalked the pavement with messages including, “Disclose and divest,” “You have blood on your hands,” and “Let Gaza live.”
Several speakers told the crowd the students facing disciplinary actions are on the right side of history.
“They may vilify you in this moment,” said Kojo Acheampong, a Harvard second-year student, “but history will absolve us all.”
There was a minimal Cambridge Police Department presence at the rally, which began just after 2 p.m. and ended at 5 p.m. Officers directed traffic around the march route but engaged little with the protesters. A handful of Harvard University police officers guarded Garber’s home from the driveway, watching as the crowd demonstrated on the sidewalk and in the streets.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
