Five students were sentenced in City Court this weekend to clean, wash and repaint a Jewish fraternity house at Florida State University here, after they pleaded guilty to tossing several home-made gas bombs at the headquarters of the club occupied by Jewish students. All five, and a sixth of the vandals who was not arrested, were suspended by the university administration until next April as a result of the attack.
The attack took place last week when the group tossed the “Molotov cocktails” at the Tau Epsilon Phi house. Before City Court Judge John Rudd, when they entered their guilty pleas after being traced by city and campus police, they said they had engaged in a “prank that got out of hand.” No one was injured as a result of the attack. The suspended students range in age from 17 to 19, and are natives of the South.
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