Invictus31
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
This past Sunday was our Genetics Final at my University. The lecture hall was packed due to there being 5 additional foreign language classes taking their exam as well.
We sat where ever there was space. I sat alongside my friend whom is the same ethnicity as me. In my particular row, a group up us of ethnic background were sitting together (about 10-12 of mixed ethnic races), the majority being my ethnicity. The professor comes up to my my row and asks all of us to get up. Then she states out loud verbatim in front of the entire class, "all of you have been suspected of suspicious activity in the past". I have never sat next to either of the people around my for any previous exam, nor has any individual ever been accused or confronted of cheating or anything of the sort in the past. The professor asks all of us to get up and the T.A.'s proceed to individually assign us to different locations around the hall.
She then proceeds to the other end of the hall and starts moving members of the same ethnicity as myself where ever there were 2 or more of us seated together. No other race was asked to get up and relocate from their seats no matter how many of them were seated in a row. She was also quoted as saying, "time to break up the pods" during her course of action. I would estimate that 20-25 members of a single ethnicity were made to stand up from their seats and relocate. Amongst this group, 2 or 3 were of a different ethnicity and asked to move because they were seated amongst my row of 10-12 students who was told to get up.
Again, not a single person moved has ever been accused of suspected of cheating or anything of the source in the past.
Two of us attempted to contact the Dean of the Department but were told by her assistant we must make an appointment through e-mail which we have done so today.
Please advise me as to what legal action can be taken. All of us were publicly humiliated and slandered against in front of a 300 student lecture hall of our peers right before the final exam for the course.
This past Sunday was our Genetics Final at my University. The lecture hall was packed due to there being 5 additional foreign language classes taking their exam as well.
We sat where ever there was space. I sat alongside my friend whom is the same ethnicity as me. In my particular row, a group up us of ethnic background were sitting together (about 10-12 of mixed ethnic races), the majority being my ethnicity. The professor comes up to my my row and asks all of us to get up. Then she states out loud verbatim in front of the entire class, "all of you have been suspected of suspicious activity in the past". I have never sat next to either of the people around my for any previous exam, nor has any individual ever been accused or confronted of cheating or anything of the sort in the past. The professor asks all of us to get up and the T.A.'s proceed to individually assign us to different locations around the hall.
She then proceeds to the other end of the hall and starts moving members of the same ethnicity as myself where ever there were 2 or more of us seated together. No other race was asked to get up and relocate from their seats no matter how many of them were seated in a row. She was also quoted as saying, "time to break up the pods" during her course of action. I would estimate that 20-25 members of a single ethnicity were made to stand up from their seats and relocate. Amongst this group, 2 or 3 were of a different ethnicity and asked to move because they were seated amongst my row of 10-12 students who was told to get up.
Again, not a single person moved has ever been accused of suspected of cheating or anything of the source in the past.
Two of us attempted to contact the Dean of the Department but were told by her assistant we must make an appointment through e-mail which we have done so today.
Please advise me as to what legal action can be taken. All of us were publicly humiliated and slandered against in front of a 300 student lecture hall of our peers right before the final exam for the course.
