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It is not their event. MLH stands for major league hacking, and they are just a separate group that helps out colleges with hackathons.

The problem is that they kicked someone out even though they had no authority to do so. The real people in charge have objected to what happened.

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> The real people in charge have objected to what happened.

Have they objected publicly, and made it clear that MLH's actions were unacceptable?

Yes.

Here is a link to the response of one of the Hack the North Directors:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke...

From the link: "For the record: MLH kicked him out. HTN did not. I feel like I definitely need to make it clear that none of the directors of Hack the North were involved in this decision. As for me, personally: I am extremely unhappy about the decision."

I absolutely respect that guy and his principles, but that's not a public statement from the organization stating its official policy, that's a Reddit comment stating a private individual's views.

One of the responding comments leads to the MLH event policy, which says "MLH reserves the right to refuse admittance to any individual at a sanctioned event." This was incredibly douchey, but didn't technically overstep the authority that Hack the North gave them when they brought them in on the event.

Source? I'd like to believe you're right, but the author was an MLH volunteer, not just a hackathon participant, and the MLH comment says "We worked with the event organizers to locate the individuals."

Here is one of the directors, he has lots of post on reddit about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke...

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