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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 4696868, member: 16"] What I wrote to the chancellor: [I]The first sentence I wrote was personal info tying me to the university. [/I] While understanding that all the facts probably have not been made available, the situation with LeQuint Allen, on its surface, looks as if the university's student-led judicial review and appeals process is broken. Based on the reporting done thus far, the punishment seems much too severe. The bad press the university has received all day today is shameful - especially when there has been no official response to the lawsuit from University Communications. As an alum and donor to SU, it saddens me to see the university treat any student with the punitive disregard this ruling has on its face. A student-athlete was not the aggressor but retaliated in a fight situation. While not the best way to respond to an attack, it is also typically the first way a young person would respond. Why was restorative justice not offered? If the facts in the press are what happened, why would the university not seek a more equitable course of action? SU is, after all, a learning institution. Restorative justice at many universities and communities around the world works incredibly well. Instead - you separate the student from a support system, strip them of what makes them who they are (student and athlete in this case), and banish them from the very institution that would do far more for the student if they were allowed to stay on campus and work through the fight and why it happened. Our justice system is one of punishment. Why are our best and brightest universities treating a fight the same way? We should be showing the world that there are other ways to change someone's behavior - instead, you are putting a student out on their own at a time in their life when they need the university's help the most. At best, it's shortsighted. At worst, it's doing actual damage to this person's future. Please call on your judicial review board to create a better path forward for other students who find themselves in these situations. Punishment is not the only way to make a difference in someone's life. Education, reflection, and ownership should be the path forward for this student or any student who takes part in a fight. Please work to make SU a more equitable place and one that can be proud of helping students through the mistakes they make instead of casting those students aside. [/QUOTE]

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