The University of Utah is not just in the state of Utah.
It has a location in Incheon, South Korea called the University of Utah Asia Campus. It is part of the University of Utah system here in the U.S.
The university notified student Craig Jones that it intended to suspend him for two years from campus. This comes after he reportedly put up flyers on one of the campuses that showed anti-white tweets from Professor Ashton Avila.
Zachary Marschall, PhD. is Editor in Chief of Campus Reform.
He said this is a complex story.
"What makes the story newsworthy and different than other similar things we've seen is the student is a resident of South Korea, and according to the university, there was an obligation for-- because he's a resident there-- for him to follow South Korean law in addition to university regulations."
Campus Reform reports it is unclear if the incident took place in Korea, though, or if Avila was simply in Korea at the time.
Concepts discussed in Avila's tweets include "white fear", and "white guilt", as well as glorifying Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomas.
A letter to Jones from the Director of Student Accountability said in part, "it is more likely than not that you engaged in intimidating and threatening behavior by repeatedly targeting and calling out a University of Utah Asia Campus faculty member.”
The letter further says that Avila reported the incident to Korean police.
The letter said that under Korean law, harassment and defamation are serious matters, and that the University of Utah is obligated to treat potential violations of law as violations of university policy.
"I think where we see this as a form of leftist bias is you can make any argument you want about differences in national law or university regulations, but there still seems to be a lack of acknowledgement on the university's part that this is a serious problem on behalf of the professor.”
That problem, he says, being her demonstrating anti-white bias in her teaching.
“I think that it's kind of … snow-flakey to characterize this student's conduct as problematic behavior when all they have done is just call attention to things the professor herself did. I think the university needs to own up and acknowledge that these are the types of people they employ."
