Now some of those protests have put the college on the hook for tens of millions of dollars. A jury found that the college and its dean of students had defamed the business by siding with the protesters. This week, the jury awarded the bakery $33 million in punitive damages, on top of the $11 million in compensatory damages awarded the week prior. Oberlin maintained that college officials had gotten involved only to keep the peace, and that it was supporting its students, not their claims that Gibson’s was racist. But the jury found that Oberlin had clearly chosen sides without first examining the facts.

Source: New York Times June 15, 2019 01:30 UTC