Whatever you do, don't make mistakes at Notre Dame

Hey, if he wants to smoke pot, he's got a lot of college options other than Notre Dame.

If you enroll at a private school you agree to abide by its rules. If you don't the school has the right to dismiss you. Pretty fucking simple.

 

If it's true this was his second chance, I understand it, because they gave in to common sense and compassion the first time. For him to betray that trust again, they couldn't look the other way when he's on scholarship and there are however many non-scholarship students who have not been busted for anything.

 

It's easier that way.

It's the same reason that parents flip out over their child's spelling tests every week but don't seem to care about more complex things like math and reading comprehension.

 

What if Notre Dame had a rule against interracial dating? Everyone support that because it's "the rules"?

Point is, this policy is stupid and backward, unforceable and arbitrary--like the War on Drugs.

Oh, and this article on "zero tolerance" is rather enlightening.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070113.IDEAS13/TPStory/Education

The Canadian Bar Association has taken a strong stance against the Conservative gestures toward zero tolerance.

Said Vancouver lawyer Greg DelBigio, chair of the group's criminal justice section, "I think it's a phrase that should not be used. What does it mean? Does it mean every person that commits a criminal offence, no matter the circumstance and no matter how trivial, gets prosecuted?"

 

Speaking of straw men...

Smoking pot is illegal, whether you agree with the law or not. Notre Dame is completely within its rights to kick this kid out of school if its rules allow it.

 

Yeah, and so is underage drinking. Are they tossing kids for that? If not, why not?

My point is, it's a stupid rule, and as one of America's premier universities, they should be a little more enlightened and not act like Bumfuck U.

 

Of course not! They need the "beer and circus" aspect of their Football Saturdays...

 

BTW, like Switzerland, I'm completely neutral as far as ND is concerned--so I'm not a Notre Dame hater.

I'd have the same reaction if say, the University of Toronto, had the same idiotic policy

 

Exactly... if it was Brady Quinn and they DIDN'T do it, I can see the venom for ND. But the school did what it promised to do...for any student

 

And there probably wouldn't be any students left.

 

Or any alumni to donate the big bucks.