COLORADO SPRINGS — Attorneys for a group of undergraduate students at Colorado College (CC) say they've filed a federal complaint claiming the college's inaction violated the civil rights of Jewish students on campus.
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The complaint was filed on Friday with the Colorado and United States Department of Education details "ongoing discrimination and harassment experienced by Colorado College’s Jewish students in the wake of Hamas’s terror attack on October 7, 2023."
The attorneys say the students have been subjected to genocidal chants, antisemitic slurs and ongoing refusals from the administration to hire a coordinator of Jewish life.
They say the events went unaddressed at the school, which has failed to meet its obligations under the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on national origin or ethnicity in educational programs receiving federal funds.
You can read the complaint below:
CC told us the following about this:
"We will not offer comments on pending legal matters and specific allegations. We do, however, want to reiterate in the strongest possible terms that we condemn antisemitism and all forms of discrimination and harassment."
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