crackgina said:
tnt said:
Wrong on so many levels. You are trying to masquerade as an unbiased poster but your bias and lies are showing. The Honor Court has been in the UTU agreement since at least 1987 and I know because I was the student complaint officer for ASUM for three years. You are full of shit, plain and simple. The Dean is NOT supposed to make a determination of guilt or innocence, but rather the Dean is to run the Court objectively. The members of the Court are to hear evidence and decide the merits. The Dean in this case, according to a Federal Judge, did things that shocked him and violated due process, yet you have no problem with it. Mr. Couture unmasked?
The judge wasn't so incensed that he wasn't willing for the entire procedure to be played out.
The only way ANYTHING gets to the conduct court is if following the pre-hearing conference the designated Ofiicer (staff member) and Dean's administrative solution is rejected by the accused. There is no reason for a "court" if the dean thinks the accused is innocent.
In the real world, its not much different a "real judge" can run an impartial trial. But he has decided well before that has ever happened whether or not there exists enough "evidence" to result in a conviction.... (or their is no trial)
Couture is a dinosaur living in the world before 1987 when the "dean" was king of the domain and could work directly with students.
Sorry you don't like reality. But you have your horse and carts sadly mixed up. The process is moving forward. JJ is far from gone. Its too bad all this concern for due process, if truly avoided, hasn't been pointed to the some 300 students a year going through Coutures office instead of save for a single football player. Biased or not I don't believ he has a vote?
And certainly didn't have much effect on the "Gang rape" outcome and he clearly had an opinion on that one.
What you all seem to be missing is that the attorneys in a major pissing contest had no part of the Hearing. They aren't allowed to. That didn't stop DP. nor did it stop Arofonsky from getting involved. It doesn't appear to me that the board knew about any of it beyond scuttlebutt.