From the NYT so it must be right. The NYT account of the riot itself is heavily biased and selective, however:
"Columbia University said yesterday that it had notified students involved in disrupting a program of speakers in early October that they were being charged with violating rules of university conduct governing demonstrations. The university did not disclose the number of students charged with violations.
Columbia's president, Lee C. Bollinger, announced the disciplinary proceedings in a letter to the university community yesterday that was also released publicly. But he said he would not provide further details because of federal rules governing student privacy....
The disrupted program, sponsored by a campus Republican group on Oct. 4, featured speakers from the Minuteman Project, which opposes illegal immigration and has mounted civilian border patrols....
Mr. Bollinger also said that several of the outsiders involved in the melee had been notified that they would no longer be allowed on campus....
Eva Fortes, a sophomore who plans to major in comparative literature and society and to minor in linguistics, expressed concern about "the bureaucracy" that student groups would face in sponsoring speakers and the light sanctions for the non-Columbia people who were involved in the scuffle. "It kind of upset me," she said, "that people not affiliated with Columbia and who came and breached university policy, they're just getting told, `Don't come back,' when they were involved in physical assaults."
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A slap on the wrist coming up, no doubt. The Stalinist thugs should be charged with assault and get a criminal record. There is a fuller account of the riot here.
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