Columbia Slaps Socialist Student Group with Interim Suspension Following Free Beacon Report
Columbia University has placed its Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter on interim suspension in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting the group's plans to "liaise with Columbia University Apartheid Divest" (CUAD), the banned student organization that wished "death to America" amid the U.S. military operations in Iran. Those plans appeared to violate Columbia's "zero tolerance" policy barring recognized student groups from affiliating with CUAD.
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