Word: prank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of a recent case has shown that the practices of the Ad Board appear inconsistent with its stated purpose and endanger the possibility of just outcomes. Several weeks ago, a student was Ad Boarded for making 'prank' calls and placed on probation, a form of punishment which becomes part of the student's permanent record. The Ad Board used an elastic "improper conduct" clause to justify the disciplinary action...
...some form of discipline appropriate. The Ad Board, according to the Handbook for Students, only reviews those cases "for which there is precedent for interpreting and applying the rules and standards of conduct of the Colleges" (316). Assuming this is true in practice, a precedent existed that dealt with 'prank' calls. Yet, there is no way for a student to know about the precedent, due to the policy of concealing of previous Ad Board cases from the University community...
Last month, as we all know, a student was put on probation by the Administrative Board for the shocking crime of making a prank call to Room 13. If a permanent blot on your transcript can result from pretending to be a first-year during a two-minute utterly inoffensive prank call, we shudder to think what will happen to the three unlucky Matherites...
...Harvard community) Ad Boarded me. My case was heard by the Ad Board (composed of the various deans and Harvard administrators), and I was put on probation. As a result, my permanent transcript was sullied (in Harvard's first disciplinary action against me), I was forced to stop writing "Prank Files" or risk leaving Harvard and my family was contacted by the administration. I was irked and wrote an editorial in The Crimson denouncing the Ad Board's decision on October 21, as everything I had done was legal and not related to academics...
...Board that influenced its decision (no) and arguing that this was not an issue of freedom of the press. I would argue with Zeller's conclusion that this sordid affair has nothing to do with freedom of the press (I would not have been Ad Boarded had the "Prank Files" not been published), but I agree with him that the primary issue should be the legitimacy of the punishment...