The teaching assistants sent a message with mental health resources to Arab and Muslim students seeking support amid the war in Gaza. The lawyer said four students face disciplinary action for demanding they be reinstated.
UT removed teaching assistants Callie Kennedy and Parham Daghighi from their positions over a message they shared with their class.
But UT said while the incident is under investigation, students violated university policies and the First Amendment does not protect their conduct. “It’s like they took a giant bowl of mud and threw it at a wall, and they’re looking to see what part of this sticks,” Lobb said.The students were speaking out against the university’s decision to remove grad students Callie Kennedy and Parham Daghighi from their teaching assistant positions after they criticized UT’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and shared mental health resources with Arab and Muslim students.
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