college question

[porpus06]

Had the meeting today....he wanted me to sign off guilty and just give me 5 hours of community service in the dorm room and 3 month probation. I did not sign off and it will most likely go to judicial court if they want to take the case, if they don't it gets thrown out. He also mentioned how he was going to get police reports saying what they saw (but they never took a report the night of the incident)

 

[Ozark_Sophist]

There are some good resources on student rights in higher education available.
Try google, "individual rights in education."

 

[quincy]

porpus06 -

The whole incident still puzzles me. Generally I would say a 3 month probation and 5 hours of community service sounds like a reasonable punishment for pretty much any minor school violation - but I find it difficult to believe anyone can be punished at all for punching a window and doing no damage.

Anyway, I guess if you were sleeping and are innocent of window-punching, you were smart not to sign off as guilty. I can't see the hall director taking any of this to court, but I couldn't see this as being a police matter, either, so who knows.....

 

[xylene]

One time, in college...

I was really upset and I started screaming at some of the non-student drug dealers who congregate in an area close to the campus.

Not proud, but I was livid at these crack peddlers.

I was screaming loud. They walked away. I think they were actually scared.

Then I started tearing the flower bushes out of the concrete vehicle barriers / planters and throwing them into the street.

Then, barehanded I ripped juniper bushes out of the median and chucked them out into the street hitting a circulator / shuttle bus.

Nearly exhausted I walked home.

Easily 100 people witnessed this and at least 2 security cameras could have recorded it.

NOTHING happened as a result of this.

You punched a window? Just banged it and basically made a loud sound? Charges?

Do you go to some really strict Xtian school or something?

I don't get this. Sorry your school is so 'tight'.

 

[quincy]

Ummm, xylene. . . . .exactly how much of the drug dealers' wares had you been sampling before tearing up the flower beds and ripping out the juniper bushes???

 

[porpus06]

Well now its a waiting game he is sending the case to judicial court (campus court i guess?)

I think it will just get thrown out and that is why he is mad I wouldn't sign off as guilty. He is like Hitler!

 

[quincy]

Well, the worst case scenario that I can envision is the 3 months probation and 5 hours of community service you would have received had you said you were guilty at the hall director's meeting. The best case is that the whole thing is thrown out, which is a distinct possibility given the bizarreness of the whole incident.

Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.