CU Boulder clears banned student journalist of charges, records show

Boulder Daily Camera: The University of Colorado Boulder has found student journalist Ašiihkionkonci Parker not guilty of any student code of conduct charges after it banned Parker from campus in October after covering a pro-Palestine protest, records show.

The university charged Parker with four alleged Student Code of Conduct violations and suspended Parker from campus completely for two weeks in October, according to letters CU Boulder sent to Parker. Once Parker was allowed back on campus, the letters showed, the case regarding Parker’s alleged student code of conduct charges was continued until Jan. 22, when the university determined that Parker was not responsible for any of the alleged Student Code of Conduct violations.

“I’m pretty upset, obviously, because CU loves to champion itself and present itself as this bastion of free speech where it allows all kinds of dialogue and discussion to happen,” Parker said. “But it’s censoring and blocking its own journalists who go to their school for journalism, for reporting events that they don’t want people to see. It’s frustrating.”

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