#university of vermont

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Lauren Trumble (Vermont)

2017 America East Cross Country Championships

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Melting ice on a small Greenland tundra pond.

Joshua Brown. University of Vermont

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by Dion J. Pierre

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has launched a major lawfare offensive apparently aimed at securing a right to break school rules on college campuses and promote anti-Israel hatred, which has contributed to a surge of antisemitic incidents at universities across the US.

On Monday, SJP at the University of Vermont (UVM) filed a federal lawsuit alleging that school officials violated the constitution and perpetrated anti-Palestinian bias by suspending the group for breaking multiple rules, local media reported. Meanwhile, SJP filed a separate civil rights complaint against the University of Georgia (UGA), where some nine students were arrested in April for illegally occupying school property, claiming that its members were victims of “extreme differential treatment.”

The lawsuit against UVM followed SJP’s latest suspension for violating what the university called “the code of student conduct,” a “solicitation and posting policy,” and other offenses. In excerpts of court documents shared by Valley News on Tuesday, the lawyer representing the group, John Franco, said the accusations were false and intended to squelch speech which is critical of Israel.

“In a word, as a state instrumentality, the defendants have invoked state power to muzzle UVMSJP, to delegitimize it, and to give anyone else second thoughts about associating with it,” Franco wrote in the complaint, which is seeking an injunctive reversal of the suspension. Elsewhere he said UVM has “chosen to weaponize procedural permitting issues and the student misconduct process to bully and intimidate UVMSJP and other students, chilling the exercise of their protected First Amendment rights.”

First reported by Athens Politics Nerd, SJP’s civil rights complaint against UGA lodges accusations of racism.

“UGA’s targeted discriminatory investigation of students and student organizations that are made up of mostly Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslim members, perceived to be Palestinian, affiliated with, or advocating in support of Palestinians amounts to a McCarthyist campaign to punish students for their identity and/or expressive activity,” a copy of the complaint shared by Athens says. “There is simply no justification for UGA’s differential treatment of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students.”

The legal actions come amid National Students for Justice Palestine’s, as well as its affiliate groups’, sustained and unrelenting campaigns to intimidate university officials into boycotting Israel and banning expressions of Zionism from higher education. As The Algemeiner has previously reported, SJP also regularly traffics in hate speech, destroys property, and trumpets its support for terrorist groups such as Hamas and overthrowing the government of the United States.

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June 9, 2025, University of Vermont SJP uploads a tweet from Unity of Fields (notorious pro-terror group) on their story:

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More than one hundred University of Vermont students took to the university’s central campus on Sunday to form a Palestine solidarity encampment, joining many other campuses nationwide and across the world to force higher education institutions to divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli investments directly involved in the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.  The encampment began at 2:00pm with more than a dozen tents, but ballooned over the afternoon and evening. By late Sunday night — despite heavy rains and soggy grass — there were roughly thirty tents on the Andrew Harris Commons, the green space between the Davis Center and Howe Library, with more on the way. Along with echoing national demands of academic boycotts and divestment of Israeli institutions, UVM students also demand the withdrawal of UVM’s selection for its 2024 commencement speaker: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In three separate U.N. ceasefire resolutions, Thomas-Greenfield vetoed each of them, and casting the lone ‘no’ vote for two U.N. Security Council resolutions. She also voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution for a humanitarian ceasefire. These actions have enabled the continued genocide of Gaza, in which over 34,000 have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023. As if her stance wasn’t clear enough from her actions at the U.N., during Thomas-Greenfield’s confirmation hearings in 2021, she called the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement (BDS) “unacceptable” and that it “verges on antisemitism.” 

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Soon after students began assembling Sunday afternoon, UVM administrators and police started making a series of ultimatums and deadlines for students to disperse, lest they face potential suspension, citation, and arrest. With students collectively deciding each time to stay put, by around 10:00 pm the administration agreed not to take any actions against students at the encampment before 8:30 am Monday. By that time, the administration insisted that all tents be removed from the green, though students could remain assembled there. Shortly after word of UVM administration’s concession made it through the crowd, UVM police officers approached some of the campers to restate UVM policy in a manner that some students found contrary to what had just been agreed.

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The students at the encampment have made the following demands of the UVM administration: 1. DISCLOSE all financial investments within UVM’s $800 million endowment. 2. DIVEST from all weapon manufacturers, Israeli companies, and companies involved in the occupation of historic Palestine. 3. ACADEMIC BOYCOTT of Israeli institutions. 4. CANCEL Linda Thomas-Greenfield as speaker for UVM’s 2024 commencement and revoke her planned honorary degree from UVM. 5. AMNESTY for all students engaged in protests for Palestinian freedom, and a guarantee of no charges for protestors.

“We have people talking to the administration to figure out what a conversation might look like to implement our demands,” James said. “But as of right now, it’s difficult because the administration seems generally unwilling to talk to us beyond telling us that we’re breaking the rules, or we need to disperse.”

-- From "UVM Students Build Solidarity Encampment for Palestine" by Matt Moore for The Rake Vermont, 29 Apr 2024

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In case we need any MORE fucking proof that poor people are forced to stay poor by capitalist institutions, allow me to describe how much it costs to get a parking pass at the college I go to! Keep in mind that this is the UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. You know, the liberal left-leaning state!

First, the parking pass itself costs $84. That's... atrocious, especially for students who live on campus, but I'm a commuter and I suppose it's fair enough that I get charged to take up a space on campus. I mean, it's not, parking should be free, but fuck me I don't know.

Next... I get a $5 processing fee. I know how expensive it is to handle a transaction, it costs CENTS TO THE DOLLAR to """""process""""" a digital purchase.

But that's it, RIGHT!? WRONG!!!

NOTE: The return of a payment will result in a $23 returned check fee being placed on the account of the UVM student. The fee will be applied for each returned payment, regardless of the reason for the return (insufficient funds, incorrect account number or routing number, account closed, stop payments, or error made during submission). Please confirm all payment and holder details are correct and sufficient funds are in the bank account prior to submitting payment.

If your card bounces, THEY CHARGE YOU $23!? What a fucking world we live in. Jesus Christ. God bless America.

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Thank you Lisa for helping to keep are girls in place when we show the world how powerful we really are!

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[racingtoaredlight]

GO CATAMOUNTS!!!

FUCK UMASS-LOWELL!

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Mr and Mrs Ballou with two kids and a dog, Brookside, Vt.

Porter C. Thayer Photographs

University of Vermont Libraries Digital Collections

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decisions for my dream college come out today

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Lake Champlain, Vermont

You take me higher—you are the reason I sing. Jeremiah Gyang I have seen the tides in the Bay Area, but I haven’t seen a lake with winds as strong as the sea. Beautiful Vermont has it all—mild sunshine, strong breezes, mountains, forests, and the lake! I have crafted a simple Muse below: Lake Champlain I feel the windy rush on my skinTiny balls of snow also fall quietlyThe snowfall I have felt…

[thestudentempanada]

May 30, 2025, University of Vermont SJP:

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Meet the photographer

Burlington, VT

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Trump administration arrests Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk at Tufts

https://urlhub.pro/4a7086