Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Tuesday inside University Hall, while students protested outside in the Rally for Justice, Faculty members debated the case of D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000 and then, by an overwhelming margin, voted to dismiss him for rape as the Administrative Board had recommended. It was the right choice given the options. The case gathered considerable media attention focusing both on students' calls for greater support for rape victims and on the varying accounts of the situation which led to Douglas' criminal conviction on a charge of sexual assault as well as the Ad Board's decision that a rape...
...There was a discussion of mitigatingcircumstances--the possibility of miscommunicationand the admission [of guilt to the woman heassaulted and the Administrative Board]," Ryansaid...
Faculty Council members had the opportunity toreview Ad Board files about the case before votingto recommend dismissal. One council member saidTuesday the council had been unanimously fordismissal before reading the documents, but after,five supported withdrawal instead...
...senior administrator said some professorsquestioned whether Douglas's civil liberties hadbeen violated by the Ad Board process...
...foregone conclusion--the full Faculty's vote to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000. Given their options, the Faculty made the right choice--to dismiss Douglas, rather than require him to withdraw, as five Faculty Council members had proposed. In the end, the Faculty followed the Administrative Board's recommendation by an extremely lop-sided vote...