The twenty-three students involved in a takeover of Mary Lyon Hall last week have received social probations for one year. This sanction means that should the twenty-three students further violate the College's Honor Code, the rules of the College, or the law, they will face more serious sanctions. In the case of the twenty-three protesters, the more serious sanction would be suspension.
Social probation for the students goes into effect immediately and will continue during each student's next full year of residence at Mount Holyoke. After a year, assuming good conduct, the social probation will end and the record of this probation will be expunged from each student's record.
All twenty-three protesting students, who appealed their suspensions to dean of students Regina Mooney, received the same sanction. Mooney chose to reduce the sanction of suspension to social probation in an effort both to move the entire College community beyond the events of the past few weeks in a positive manner and to indicate the seriousness of the students' disruptive act.
According to news services director Kevin McCaffrey, "The interests of both the students and the College community were taken into consideration during this confidential process of appeal. Dean Mooney felt it was of paramount importance to seek, after meeting with each student involved individually, to begin a process of healing for the campus and to reassert the College's commitment to remain a place where both reasoned and passionate discussion can take place on serious issues."
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