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Thu Jul 30, 2015, 08:19 PM Jul 2015

TCU, student at odds over comments on social media

FORT WORTH — A TCU student says he’s been unfairly disciplined by the university for making comments about current events on social media after some complained that his choice of words was offensive.

Harry Vincent said he was placed on “suspension in abeyance” — meaning for the next year he can only attend classes at the university or visit the school library but is prohibited from living on campus, activities like attending games, and must drop out of his fraternity.

He said he was placed on disciplinary probation until his graduation from TCU and ordered to perform 60 hours of community service and to take a course on issues in diversity.

“I was in shock,” Vincent, 19, said Thursday in a Skype interview from his Maryland home.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article29592781.html#storylink=cpy

[font color=330099]The remarks by Vincent are included later in the article. However, for him to deny he is racist after calling the people in Baltimore "poor uneducated druggy hoodrats" is a stretch.[/font]

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