MIT has banned student Megha Vemuri from its graduation ceremony.
Vemuri was scheduled to be the marshal but was disallowed by the chancellor.
The ban follows her pro-Palestine speech during a campus event.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has banned Indian-American student Megha Vemuri from her graduation commencement ceremony after she delivered a pro-Palestine speech during an event on Thursday (May 29). Ms Vemuri, MIT’s class of 2025 president, was scheduled to be the marshal at the ceremony, but university chancellor, Melissa Nobles, announced she could not attend the event.
Ms Noble also stated that Ms Vemuri and her family were banned from the college campus for most of the day.
“You deliberately and repeatedly misled Commencement organizers,” Ms Nobles wrote in an email to Ms Vemuri, as per the Boston Globe.
“While we acknowledge your right to free expression, your decision to lead a protest from the stage, disrupting an important institute ceremony, was a violation of MIT’s time, place and manner rules for campus expression.”
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