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They held signs about defending free speech on campus and protecting international and immigrant students.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201dI\u2019m really angry about the compact, the compact for excellence in higher education, I believe it\u2019s called, that Trump put out and is pressuring universities to comply to,\u201d said SDS member Connor Jaap.<\/p>\n
Along with being upset with these policies, Jaap and the other demonstrators spoke out against the lawsuit they filed against USF.<\/p>\n
Jaap said \u00a0USF is threatened by the student movement speaking out against these policies, and that is why they are not allowed on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know that we do have power as students, and we can do something about how the university is treating us and complying with the Trump administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Victoria Hinckley is another member of SDS, and she said USF is ignoring the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe filed multiple Title 6 complaints and nothing was done about it,\u201d Hinkley said.<\/p>\n
She said by rallying and getting more attention about free speech, like today, the group hopes to put more pressure on the school.<\/p>\n
Hinckley also said there have been other SDS chapters being reprimanded for speaking out about various issues like Palestine and immigration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a nationwide issue, not just a Tampa thing, and our oppression obviously is very severe, but it is happening across many different campuses that we can see,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While they were chanting, multiple students stopped and listened, and some cars honked while driving by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students for a Democratic Society protesting the Trump Administration and USF. Photo by Leah Burdick They held signs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[409,11113,1841,27195,135,137,136,3650],"class_list":["post-40864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-speech","tag-immigration","tag-students-for-a-democratic-society","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-university-of-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}