Undercurrents on Instagram: "SUSPENDED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS: On Nov. 7, Pomona upholds Starr’s unilateral suspensions after appeals process. Daniel Velazquez PO ’25 and Francisco Villaseñor PO ’25 are two students who had their suspensions upheld for the rest of the academic school year.   Widely known on campus as DJ Danster, Velazquez did freelance DJ gigs on and off campus throughout their time at Claremont for their living expenses. Now — without any formal hearing, and initially without any evidence — Pomona College has suspended Velazquez for the full academic year, for their alleged participation in a divestment protest on Oct. 7, 2024. Villaseñor received his interim suspension email while visiting the Bay Area for fall break. Away from his on-campus peers and with no way to access the belongings he had left behind in Claremont, Villaseñor said he felt unprepared to respond to the letter. Pomona College initially gave Villaseñor and Velazquez just 36 hours to write an appeal for their interim suspensions. Velazquez said that it was difficult to write an appeal without specific evidence to respond to. Both Velasquez and Villaseñor said they are committed to returning to and graduating from Pomona. “It would’ve been easy for me to just go home and allow this to happen. But … I cannot let them set that precedent, and I cannot let that fall into what is a much larger history of higher academia actively targeting and suppressing the values, the voices, the thoughts of people who operate at the margins,” Villaseñor said. “I cannot let that cycle, that history of suppression continue. And I don’t think that the community is going to allow that to happen either.”"