You have got to be kidding me.

So as you know doubt know, the RSPT crew was charged by the school with furnishing alcohol to a minor. Our case officer, whom I shall refer to as "the white knight", was out to nail us from the first time we met with him. At that initial meeting, he tried to convince us, based on laws and accusations that were not relevant to our charge, that we would be found guilty by the campus hearing board, and that we should just sign a paper indicating that we were guilty. The punishment would be missing a track meet because we would have to go to a seminar designed for violent criminals, a two-page paper on what we "learned", and a judicial mark on our records for 2 years. We decided that, given the evidence against us at the time, which was non-existent, that we would appeal our case. Well this evening we had our hearing. We made a solid case and thought that we would be let off the hook on the basis that they could not prove anything against us, because we had made it quite apparent that we were in fact innocent. Well a couple hours later, Mike and I got a phone call from the chief justice in the case. He informed us that, beyond all logic and reason, that we had been found guilty. Gabe was found innocent because he had not gotten to the party until after the person in question had gotten sick. The thing that sucks about this whole thing... not only do we have to complete all of the punishments that the white knight laid out for us, we would have to complete 40 hours of community service in the month of April. How, with any semblance of rationality, could they think that full-time students who are varsity athletes would have the time to do 40 hours of CS in a single month? It is utterly ludicrous. And complete bullshit.

I don't know what's going to happen now. We can try to appeal that the punishment is not practical. If that doesn't work.... then they will have effectively destroyed my constant... I will have to quit the track team in order to make time to complete all that community service... I have nothing against community service, in fact I've been meaning to get more involved in all that anyways... I don't think I've ever been so frustrated in my life. It boggles my mind when I have to come to terms with that fact that they are punishing us with literally zero evidence against us. The state of Massachusetts couldn't take action, and for good reason, there was no proof, so how can a school get away with it??? Fuck this.