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This is a biased puff piece that reads like something produced by the university's PR department. One would never guess from this article that Maric is a highly controversial and divisive figure at UConn. The article conspicuously omits Maric's controversial suppression of a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest on campus in April 2024. At her direction, dozens of police arrested 25 current students and one alumnus on charges of disturbing the peace and criminal trespass for their role in maintaining a protest encampment on campus. The article also omits mention of the strong faculty support for the arrested students. It omits mention of Maric's imposition of new rules to restrict campus protest, rules that some students have denounced as a deliberate suppression of free speech at a public university. The reference to her Judaism seems to be a disingenuous effort to imply that the protests were anti-Semitic when in fact they were joined by anti-war Jewish students. (Note the citation to the point about her Judaism). This tendentious article should not appear on Wikipedia in its current form. Pcb02005 (talk) 17:03, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, look at this: Student Protests in 2024In the spring of 2024, UConn was one of many American college campuses in which groups of students held pro-Palestinian protests against Israeli wartime practices in Gaza. Ref: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/2024_pro-Palestinian_protests_on_university_campusesUConn’s protest was peaceful and relatively small, with about 20 tents located on an open space behind the Babbidge Library. Among other positions, the students asked that UConn divest from arms manufacturers doing business with Israel. On April 30, at Maric’s direction, UConn police and several dozen officers from other police departments launched an early morning raid. When students refused to dismantle the tents and disperse, the police charged them with disrupting the peace and criminal trespassing. In total, 24 students and one alumnus were arrested that day; a graduate student had been arrested in connection with the protests earlier. These students came to be known as the “UConn 26.” Maric defended the arrests, saying in an official letter that the protest “"was not registered and did not follow the University's policies and processes." Ref: Alison Cross, “‘Dozens of police’ arrest Pro-Palestinian protesters at UConn; Connecticut senator calls for president to defend students’ First Amendment rights,” May 1, 2024; Alison Cross, “UConn president defends arrests,” Hartford Courant, May 2, 2024; Alison Cross, “Student Protestors Call for Amnesty at Court Appearance,” Hartford Courant, May 15, 2024; Luke Feeney, “UConn Student Activists: Administration Wasn’t Listening. UConn says: We are listening,” Connecticut Public Radio, May 22, 2024. https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2024-05-22/uconn-student-activists-administration-wasnt-listening; The University Senate held a special meeting to discuss the arrests, and passed a resolution urging Maric to ask that the charges be dropped. Maric later issued a letter indicating that she would not do that. Ref: Alison Cross, “Arrested UConn protesters face conduct violation cases,” Hartford Courant, May 30, 2024; Alison Cross, “UConn protesters face new action,” Hartford Courant, May 31, 2024.In August of 2024, the university adopted new policies placing limits on future protests on campus. These included bans on amplified sound and camping. Students protested the new restrictions, with one student leader stating that “These new policies functionally require activists to gain prior approval from the university they want to protest…We think that their heavy-handed infringement on students’ right to disagree with the actions of the school is especially concerning, given that it’s a public university.” Ref: Desiree Sin, “UConn Protest Policy Updates Met with Scrutiny,” Connecticut Mirror, Sept. 9, 2024, https://ctmirror.org/2024/09/13/uconn-protest-policy-updates/Pcb02005 (talk) 17:12, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can't tell which words are yours and which words are quoted, but I don't think anything prevented you from adding a few well-chosen words or sentences to the article. Drmies (talk) 21:45, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
