I got to page 13 before I gave up reading because it's readily apparent no one has actually bothered to read the appeal that was submitted to the supreme court.
1) It comes down to what I and a couple others noted earlier about this being not about what Bubu did and didn't do, but about people outside of the adequate and fair student discipline system overstepping.
2) If you read the appeal you'd know that Bubu does not contest and hasn't ever contested that he violated the student code about sexual misconduct. Simply the punishment for it.
Given point 2 it shouldn't come as a surprise that the administration believes ISU should be able to dictate the actual punishment which was stripped by point 1 above.
For those of you that keep saying 2 judges have found Bubu innocent. You are twisting an important fact. He was not found guilty criminally. He hasn't been charged with a criminal violation. In fact that portion of the student code violation was dropped in the ISU discipline process as well.
For the love of everything rational please read the appeal before going calling for the heads of the leader of the university and the athletic department you are so passionate about. It's abundantly clear from the dialogue that there are about 4-5 people that have actually done more than listen to sports talk radio or skimmed headlines.
It comes down to this. The administrative law judge used criminal law guilt standards on his ruling about whether or not Palo was in violation of student code. Those two codes are not the same thing. ISU student code in this area is more stringent. So 1 person (the alj) found him innocent. The President reviewed the case when it was appealed by ISU judiciary and the complaintant. As part of a fair appeal process. He found Palo Guilty based on the evidence. It was then appealed to the Regents, who also found him guilty (this has been dismissed as a rubber stamp by the district court). It was then appealed to a district court which found NOTHING, they simply delayed the punishment with a stay until a full appeal could get heard. So of the 4 levels of review on this, 2 levels found Palo guilty, 1 found him innocent, and another simply punted. Can we stop acting like this incredibly thorough and fair process is some sort of conspiracy against a kid who has yet to appeal the fact he violated the student code. After all, he accepted 3 of the 4 punishments relating to his violation of the code without any appeal whatsoever.
So basically Palo has said he violated the sexual misconduct code, but still wants to play ball, and ISU can't stop him. Does that seem right to anyone?
