Word: boarded
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Harvard's administrative board provides students with few of the legal protections provided by courts, such as the right to cross examine accusers and to be represented by counsel. But while many call the system unjust, its standards have proven difficult to challenge in court...
Aside from the lawsuit brought against the University last month by two students seeking their diplomas, four attorneys who have been involved with administrative board cases say they are aware of only one other challenge to make it to trial in recent years...
...ordinary circumstances, courts are extremely reluctant to overturn a disciplinary decision from a University," said Roderick MacLeish Jr, a Boston lawyer who has advised 12 College students on cases before the administrative board...
Attorneys for the students have also claimed the College violated its own administrative board rules during the investigation. But according to Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, it would take a fairly significant breach of University protocol for the courts to step...
Still, administrative board critics hold out the hope that a court might find Harvard's system so unfair that it would be willing to step...