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First and most important, Perspective, the liberal campus monthly, 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...
In an e-mail to one of the two women who were raped, Perspective reports, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87 likened expulsion to the death penalty: "I learn to think of it in terms of capital punishment where expulsion is the death penalty and dismissal is...
I 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...
Expulsion and dismissal are both rare events at the College, with expulsion used mostly for admissions fraud cases and dismissal having been approved only 12 times in the last 40 years. Students who commit rape, a violent crime, should be included in those rare incidences of expulsion. If not this...
Administrators argue that while dismissal might be considered lifetime imprisonment (but apparently with the slim possibility of parole a.k.a. readmission), expulsion is the equivalent of the death penalty, and they indicate their reluctance to take such final action. We appreciate the somberness with which they approach removing students for good...