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Editorials
Dye Ruling Assures Future Justice
 
President Nancy Dye’s decision to personally review the Barnard assault case was a difficult and incredibly gutsy one. Once that decision had been made, the decision to expel seniors Ryan Catignani and Rick Kocher was a relatively easy one. The facts of the case were almost never in doubt, as the still-harsh judgment of the second Community Board demonstrated. The real decision here was whether or not a bad and unpopular ruling warranted administrative intervention in what is almost entirely a community-based judicial process. Dye decided that it did and the Review applauds her for that decision.
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Letters
Harvey’s Last Words on Assault

To the Editors:

In the weeks following the March 17 assault on me by [seniors] Ryan Catignani, Richard Kocher and [junior] Nicolas Walker I have grown increasingly frustrated and eventually exasperated with the weak willed, weaker minded and ultimately stubbornly ineffectual administration whose leadership (or lack there of) currently permeates Oberlin College. As the weeks turned into months, I had little choice but to stand by and watch as the College repeatedly sacrificed my rights to safety and security in order to protect the perceived rights of the perpetrators, hid behind the Community Board when word of their behavior got out to the public, and never (it is now eight weeks and counting) apologized to me for the way in which I have been (mis)treated.
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