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Kane discovered forgery in the student's undergraduate record and brought it to the attention of the Ad Board, which recommended expulsion at a meeting in December...
...administration's response to these charges generally has something to do with the Ad Board's role as an educational tool. According to this argument, the Board is not a court of law; its mission is to help and protect students. This counterclaim has a degree of merit. But there is a fundamental tension between the obligation of the College to protect students and the right of students to protect themselves...
...course, this tension also exists in the United State's own judicial system. But in contrast to Harvard's Ad Board, the government, operating on the premise that it is impossible to arrive at the truth fairly via coercion and secrecy, established civil liberties laws to protect citizens from the potential excess of the government. The Ad Board undeniably shares the potential for these excesses, given that it has substantial power to seriously damage students via probation, explusion and requirements to withdraw. But within its current system, Harvard has implicitly decreed that the Ad Board is not party to these...
...Harvard, the choice about whether to pursue meaningful Ad Board reform is a choice between which standards it prefers to uphold: those that have been hashed out over the centuries by legal scholars as ideal for establishing the truth, defending the accused, and meting out appropriate punishments; or those that "protect" Harvard students, the same Harvard students, that write books, run million-dollar companies, and even occasionally have the ear of the White House...
Harvard needs to end the charage of "protection" and bring its most important administrative committee in line with the Bill of Rights (not to mention several other Ivy League schools). In addition to rectifying the above problems, the most important change the Ad Board can make would be to have all its proceedings made public (with the exception of certain sensitive cases that fall within narrow and carefully-defined areas) so that the disciplinary body is accountable to the greater community. In an academic setting dedicated to the pursuit of Veritas, the administration should not be afraid to have...