Florida International University suspended two students tied to a racist, sexist, and antisemitic group chat that included violent rhetoric, with the sanctions banning them from campus and university events for two years. The university charged one student for an “affirmative act” facilitating student-conduct-code violations and the other for verbal or written abuse and threats that endangered others. The actions follow weeks of scrutiny after the Miami Herald reported hundreds of messages, and FIU officials had said they would not tolerate violence, hate, discrimination, harassment, racism, or antisemitism. The suspended students argue FIU’s approach violates free-speech rights and say the university applied a “double standard” after earlier conduct charges against students who protested ICE partnerships. FIU’s decisions now face appeal activity in federal court, intensifying attention on how universities apply conduct codes to private online communications and how students challenge speech-related enforcement decisions.