- guardian.co.uk, Sunday 10 February 2002 17.11 GMT
Students, lecturers and others working at the university have launched a campaign to expel Lawrence Rustem, a third-year politics student who also heads the BNP's ethnic liaison committee. Rustem, 28, who is half-Turkish, has recruited disaffected Sikhs and Hindus working with the BNP to campaign against Islamist extremists.
'I want him out of this university. He stands for everything the university stands against,' said a lecturer at the Humanities School.
The lecturer, who did not wish to be identified for fear the university might discipline him for breaching student confidentiality, said he had taught Rustem and was shocked by his political views.
He added: 'Greenwich has a good mix of [multi-racial] students, who want to see an end to this situation.'
Greenwich is one of the more multi-racial campuses in the country, with the total ethnic minority student population standing at around 32 per cent.
Rustem said he had a right to education like anyone else, and should not be victimised for his politics. 'They haven't got the right to stop me studying. And I will carry on studying,' he said.
Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen, said: 'I had no idea such a person was studying here. The university cannot support a student like that. There's a large proportion of black students.'
