“It’s so much bigger than me.”
The Sun sat down with Momodou Taal, an international graduate student from the United Kingdom who could be forced to leave the country after the University suspended him for taking part in a pro-Palestinian protest last week. At the protest, more than 100 student activists shut down a career fair attended by defense contractors Boeing and L3Harris.
Taal believes he was singled out for disciplinary action. At time of publication, The Sun has learned of no other suspensions related to the career fair protest.
Taal described his suspension as “a David and Goliath battle” with the administration and said it was “unsurprising that I became a target.”
Interview by Gabriel Levin
Filmed by Marian Caballo, Ming DeMers
Edited by Marian Caballo
Marian Caballo is a senior editor on the 143rd editorial board and was the multimedia and data science editor on the 142nd and 141st editorial boards. Marian also served as an assistant news editor. She is a member of the Class of 2026 in the College of Arts and Sciences. You can reach her at mcaballo@cornellsun.com.
Gabriel Levin is the investigations senior editor for the 143rd Editorial Board, a former editor-in-chief from the 142nd Editorial Board and a member of the Class of 2026 in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at glevin@cornellsun.com or by phone or Signal at +1 949-584-5968.
Ming DeMers is a graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences. He served as the photography editor of The Cornell Daily Sun on the 142nd Masthead and was in the photography department for all his four years at Cornell. He can be reached at mdemers@cornellsun.com.
