Word: boarded
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Though he wishes visitors could be allowed to the club, Powers said he supports the graduate board's decision...
...grad board sees that we can control ourselves, it can definitely get back to what it was," Owl member Benjamin M. Green '00 said...
...revealed that neither of two students who have admitted to and been convicted of indecent assault and battery has been expelled from the College. Both students, Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, and D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, sexually assaulted two Harvard women last year, and the Ad Board has recommended their dismissal. But the unless the full Faculty vote to expel them, the two will theoretically be allowed to return to Harvard. It is plain and simple that these boys do not deserve ever to return to Harvard, and though they probably will not be allowed to, they...
...think of it in terms of capital punishment where expulsion is the death penalty and dismissal is life imprisonment and I hope that you'll come to see it that way," she wrote. In a Crimson article last Friday, Dean Lewis picked up the same metaphor: "I think the Board does think about dismissal versus expulsion the way others think about capital punishment," he wrote in an e-mail message. "As unlikely as it is that new information could come to light years later that would change the way a case is viewed, the Board and the Faculty have chosen...
...tend to think I am not the only one who finds this analogy illegitimate. It is true that expulsion, like the death penalty, is irrevocable, while dismissal, like life imprisonment, is not. The similarities, however, stop there. The Ad Board is not a court of law, and expulsion from Harvard, contrary to what some may like to believe, is not as bad as death. Furthermore, let us not forget that both Elster and Douglas are confessed and convicted sex offenders. There is no further evidence needed. These students should not now or ever have the possibility of being readmitted, period...