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Crotty said. "You have to have a
counseling relationship. To me, it's
just bizarre that it would be otherwise."
"I regret that that mistrust is there.
I suppose that it doesn't have to be
secret. It's just more effective if it is."
But professional journalism organizations
disagree.
Society of Professional Journalists
President Steven Geimann.said the
hearings should be open as a matter of
public safety.
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is crime, and it should be treated the
saw me way on campus as a crime off
campus."
SPJ is urging Congress to open all
campus judicial proceedings to the
public.
"When we encounter anybody who
in the slightest is trying to conceal a
record, close a meeting, or prevent
public scrutiny of a public action,"
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Most students who end up in the
discipline office at 900 Assembly
Street don't have a judicial board
hearing. Their case is solved through
meetings with Crotty or brian
Polding, director of judicial affairs.
Only about 10 percent of the more
than 200 cases the office handles
each year come before the judicial
board.
"Students would prefer to get it
over with and to have someone they
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professional to make a decision in
their case," Crotty said.
Students can always decide they
want a judicial board hearing. But
most either go through Pre-Trial
Intervention, a program run out of
the 5th Circuit Solicitor's office
which allows first-time offenders who
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grand larceny of over $5,000 said he
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might be more harsh.
"Basically I knew if 1 went through
the judicial board 1 probably would
have gotten in more trouble than
what happened just because from
what I" understand your peers are
actually less forgiving," he said.
The student, who did not want to
be identified, was sanctioned to "suspension
held in abeyance."
"As long as I don't get in trouble.
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