Four UChicago seniors face degree withholding amid Gaza protest fallout

According to the faculty and students, four graduating seniors were informed that their degrees might be withheld at the university. The email to students reportedly said that the students were under a "university disciplinary process" because they may have been involved in the Gaza solidarity encampment on the quad.The nine-day protest ended after campus police raided it. Students were handed a note stating that they could face consequences.

"The decision by the University of Chicago administration to deny these students the opportunity to graduate with their peers is unfortunately part of a larger pattern across the country of university administrators denying or deferring degrees in order to punish students for their advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian people," said professor of law Genevieve Lakier. "The only thing that differentiates me fand my peers and my friends is that I talked about Palestine.

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