Montclair State Student Suspended Over Online Fat Jokes
Joseph Aziz, 26, of Weehawken, is suspended for the spring semester for making comments about a female student online, but a nonprofit civil rights organization is stepping in to try and reverse the university's ruling.
A Montclair State University masters student is suspended for the spring semester after he posted insulting comments about a female student on social media websites. Joseph Aziz, 26, of Weehawken, made comments on YouTube -- which have since been removed -- at the start of the fall semester poking fun at a fellow female student's weight and referred to her legs as “bleached hams,” according to Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit that pursues civil rights cases and is working on Aziz’s behalf. The comments were soon brought to the attention of the university. On Oct. 9, the university issued Aziz a University No-Contact Order, according to FIRE. The no-contact order forbade Aziz from any “written, verbal, or …
Brian Hurrel
1:11 pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013
I must be missing something. Did Aziz personally confront and verbally insult this young lady? more ›