Fourth kid off the roll

The co-Bellends of the Month for November 2013 are Logan Beaschler, Colin Warren, Joseph Bomgardner, and a fourth student at a California university who has been suspended for being involved in alleged racially motivated abuse of a black student, an occurrence that has led to student protests on campus. The suspension of the fourth student, which followed suspensions and misdemeanor hate crime charges against the three named students, was disclosed by San Jose State University President Mohammed Qayoumi in a statement last Friday. Qayoumi did not identify the fourth student or say whether he might also face charges. The victim in the incident that led to student protests at the campus in Northern California has also not been named. The students are accused of using racist terms to refer to the victim, displayed Nazi symbols and a Confederate flag in their suite, and once tried to put a U-shaped bicycle lock around the victim's neck, causing him minor injuries when he fought back. This is not the right way to act around people of colour. That behaviour seriously needs to be dealt with in the strictest manner possible, and the president did the right thing in suspending the students who pulled that crap. This is seriously not on.