4 students in Oregon confess to hanging Obama cutout October 1, 2008
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NEWBERG, Ore. — George Fox University says four students have been punished for hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.
The university said in a statement today the penalties are “immediate long-term suspension and public service.” The school says the four confessed to their involvement.
It says federal privacy rules prevent it from disclosing the length of the suspensions or the names of the students.
The life-size cardboard cutout, a commercial product, was hung last week with fishing line around the neck.
An official of the Christian school of about 1,800 students called the image of a black man hanged from a tree one of the most hurtful symbols of racism in American history.
And all they got was a suspension? This isn’t high school. This was college students, IE ADULTS.
Expulsion and jail time is what’s in order, not a slap on the wrist.