Letter: No Tribunal for One Charged Student-Protester

Informal Agreement Has Been Reached

Letters — Published February 1, 2016 | Updated February 2, 2016 at 4:46am

As a student charged under the Code of Rights and Responsibilities for striking on April 1, 2015, I would like to thank one of the complainants for coming to an amicable, informal agreement with me, and I presume with the other students they charged as well, through the university.

I don’t wish to divulge any details, not only because of conditions of confidentiality, but because ultimately they are not relevant.

I do, however, hope that the remaining complainants take from this example of mutually beneficial resolution, and can be open to solutions that are less time—and resource—consuming, and less draining on public funds, than the onerous tribunal process.

There are options beyond tribunals that reflect the common desires—I hope—of students and faculty to spend our energies on more productive things than bureaucratic maneuvering and adversarial positioning.

These options are feasible, and in my case one of these options is already in practice.

Thanks to my original complainant I can now get back to my studies, and I assume they are happy to get back to their work as well. I hope the remaining students and professors in question can come to a place where they can say the same thing very soon.

— Anonymous