I was a student on one of those university boards. I highly recommend hiring a lawyer at the first hint of an issue. My university wanted people to accept "re

I was a student on one of those university boards. I highly recommend hiring a lawyer at the first hint of an issue. My university wanted people to accept "responsibility" which students took as responsibility for their actions, not for what they were being pinned for. Of course the students are going to take responsibility for their actions thinking that will help, and then the University does whatever with its mind already made up. One student had trace amounts of drugs on some paraphernalia. Student didn't show up to their board hearing, so got the default suspension. Could have stayed and brought a lawyer for less than what the semester cost (instead of receiving Incompletes/Fails) and won. Oh well.