Re: NP View: Universities must take a stand against hate-filled radicals taking over campuses — Editorial, May 4; and Universities bowing to anti-Israel mobs by barring opposing voices: activists — Bryan Passifiume, May 21 Within a university’s policy statement is a code of student conduct that outlines the behaviour expectations of students, including those behaviours that are deemed unacceptable. For example, the policy statement of the University of Toronto states in part “(e) No person shall engage in a course of vexatious conduct that is directed at one or more specific individuals, and that is based on race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, or disability ..
.” Additionally, “(b) No person shall assault another person, threaten any other person with bodily harm, or knowingly cause any other person to fear bodily harm.” Students who incite hatred towards Jews and Jewish students, cause Jewish students to be fearful and/ or disrupt classroom studies and university ceremonies must be held accountable for violating the code of conduct to which they are supposed to adhere.
It is time for university administrators to enforce the rules of their institutions. If university administrators cannot or will not do this, they should be replaced. Phyllis Levin, Toronto In light of the current practices of those in charge of Canadian universities, I.