It Has To Stop!

[SWMOzebra]

Many years ago when I was in college, I served on the Faculty-Student Judicial Board...a kind of "last appeal" for everything from parking tickets to academic dishonesty. We heard many cases concerning student athletes, but only one intramural case, almost a duplicate of what is described.

Not only did the player get charged by the local prosecutor, the Dean of Students suspended him for the remainder of the semester (no refund of fees) and placed him on academic probation if he re-enrolled the following semester. When he tried to change schools, he found his transcript was marked with all this information and the other schools were also going to place him on academic probation as a condition of enrollment. He appealed to us to overturn the suspension, which we did not. His academic career was severely derailed because he'd lost his temper during a stupid IM basketball game and broke a ref's nose.

TMP, the bottom line is this: the school has got to step in with an additional punishment other than "banned from IM sports" to make students think twice about doing something crazy like this.

[iowafanseattle]

In February I had jury duty and was picked as a juror on the following trial:

Two hispanic fraternities at the UW had an organized tackle football game one weekend.

After a long running play everyone turned around to see one guy sitting on
top of his opponent and beating him up.

The bottom guy received a ruptured ear drum, broken eye socket, and cuts/bruises.

Since it was on UW property he was prosecuted by the State of Washington.

We found him guilty of Assault-3.

I agree, it must stop.

Fans, players, officials....if they get violent then they should be prosecuted to the fullest.