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    FILE - New York University students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) FILE - New York University students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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    Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would Principal Skinner respond if she did?

    Hard to say, but some NYU students facing discipline for their actions during this spring's pro-Palestinian protests have been assigned a 49-page workbook that includes a 鈥淪impsons鈥-based module on ethical decision-making. Some have been asked to write an apologetic 鈥渞eflection paper鈥 and submit it 鈥渋n 12-point Times New Roman or similar font.鈥

    Like colleges across the U.S., NYU was the scene of protests over Israel's response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack during the last weeks of the spring semester.

    More than 100 NYU students were arrested when police cleared an encampment at the university's Manhattan campus on April 22, and about a dozen more were arrested at a smaller encampment on May 3.

    NYU's school year has ended, but the university is requiring some student protesters to go through a disciplinary process that includes answering questions like 鈥淲hat are your values? Did the decision you made align with your personal values?鈥 in a double-spaced reflection paper.

    Others must complete a 49-page 鈥淓thos Integrity Series鈥 that asks students to rank their values from 1 to 42 and complete assignments like 鈥渨rite about how your values affect your daily life and the decisions you make.鈥

    One section is based on an episode of 鈥淭he Simpsons鈥 in which Lisa uncharacteristically cheats on a test and is wracked by guilt. Principal Skinner, meanwhile, wants to keep the cheating under wraps so the school can get a grant. Questions in the ethics workbook include 鈥淲hat, if anything, could Lisa have done or thought about to make better decisions?鈥 and 鈥淲hat are the potential and actual consequences of Principal Skinner鈥檚 decisions?鈥

    An NYU group called Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine criticized the assignments in a news release.

    Sara Pursley, an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, noted that students completing the reflection paper are told they must not try to justify their actions or 鈥渃hallenge a conduct regulation.鈥

    鈥淪ince they can鈥檛 write anything justifying their action, students seem to be banned from writing about personal values that might be relevant here, such as a belief in freedom of expression, the responsibility to oppose genocide, or the duty of nonviolent civil disobedience under certain circumstances," Pursley said. "This seems rather ironic in an essay on integrity.鈥

    NYU spokesperson John Beckman said the disciplinary process is meant to be educational.

    鈥淭he point of these essays is to reflect upon how a student鈥檚 way of expressing their values might be having an impact on other members of the NYU community,鈥 Beckman said. 鈥淲e think that鈥檚 a worthwhile goal.鈥

    He added, 鈥淲hich is not to say that the specific assignments couldn鈥檛 be improved."

    Faculty members and staff from NYU's Office of Student Conduct will meet in the fall, Beckman said, to consider 鈥渨hat might be done to improve the quality of the prompts for the reflection papers as well as the other educational assignments."

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