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Student sues over ouster after post-Super Bowl disturbance

By Martin Finucane

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 18, 2012

A University of Massachusetts Amherst student who was expelled two days after he was arrested in rowdy post-Super Bowl disturbances on campus is challenging his expulsion in federal court. Cullen Roe argues in a complaint filed in US District Court in Springfield that the university and its officials made an “arbitrary, unfair, intimidating, wrongful and unlawful decision to summarily expel a student who poses no imminent threat to anyone.’’

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