Word: trespassing
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...student expelled from a state university for participating in a demonstration who enters the grounds of any state university without the consent of a university officer shall be guilty of criminal trespass...
...first Columbia students to be tried on "criminal trespass" charges stemming from last spring's riots have been freed by a New York judge...
...other students still face trial on similar charges of criminal trespass. The New York District Attorney's office said that this week's decision will not affect the future cases...
...reason for hope was the suddenly flexible attitude of the administration. Early this month, Columbia requested that Manhattan courts drop criminal-trespass charges against almost 400 students arrested in the spring disorders. The university also lifted the suspensions of 42 other students-but not those of Rudd and 30 militants arrested for resisting arrest and inciting to riot. It also rescinded an almost meaningless rule forbidding indoor demonstrations. The thaw was designed to placate campus moderates while isolating the more intransigent radicals...
...June 4, Columbia's commencement day, Keith Karnofsky, 22, was arrested in a student protest near the campus. A month earlier he had been charged with criminal trespass when New York City police cleared Columbia's buildings of student rebels. Today he is studying to be a rabbi at Manhattan's Hebrew Union College, and he sees no disparity between his radicalism and his faith. As Keith puts it: "Activism is a Jewish thing...