Former president of Boston University, John Silber, who was also ran for the position of governor for the state of Massachusetts, was an intellectual man. Even after his death, September 27, 2012, he left behind his legacy and had “Sherborn Street” renamed by the city of Boston, the “John R. Silber Way” in honor of him.
John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and the king’s”. However, they still posed a major difference, which the church courts did not settle the situation in capital punishment. English clergymen were somewhat the exemption of the jurisdiction in civil courts. Which is why he states “benefit …show more content…
The school will “bury serious criminal cases in their own judicial systems” as Silber states. He refers to a young man at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, that was allowed to graduate even after he was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student while she was sleeping. As well as being put on “student conduct probation” as a result of it. Silber expresses that “Colleges have the right to establish judicial codes... But the administration of these codes should not give criminals sanctuary from the law”. In which many universities typically “look the other way” while a student accuses a fellow classmate of theirs and don’t do anything about it, due to the fact that they don’t want the name and the reputation of their school to be tarnished.
John Silber’s “Students Should Not Be above the Law” gives you an understanding on how he simply viewed the way some universities “usurp the role of the court”. He also expresses how the colleges and universities are denying the perpetrators “entrance into the adult world of responsible action”. He later says “they fail utterly as educators”, because they did not let their student take the crime that they committed as an adult, furthermore as a child that needs to be protected by the judicial code of their university. Thus, not teaching them how it is in the “real world” when you do commit such a heinous
John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and the king’s”. However, they still posed a major difference, which the church courts did not settle the situation in capital punishment. English clergymen were somewhat the exemption of the jurisdiction in civil courts. Which is why he states “benefit …show more content…
The school will “bury serious criminal cases in their own judicial systems” as Silber states. He refers to a young man at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, that was allowed to graduate even after he was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student while she was sleeping. As well as being put on “student conduct probation” as a result of it. Silber expresses that “Colleges have the right to establish judicial codes... But the administration of these codes should not give criminals sanctuary from the law”. In which many universities typically “look the other way” while a student accuses a fellow classmate of theirs and don’t do anything about it, due to the fact that they don’t want the name and the reputation of their school to be tarnished.
John Silber’s “Students Should Not Be above the Law” gives you an understanding on how he simply viewed the way some universities “usurp the role of the court”. He also expresses how the colleges and universities are denying the perpetrators “entrance into the adult world of responsible action”. He later says “they fail utterly as educators”, because they did not let their student take the crime that they committed as an adult, furthermore as a child that needs to be protected by the judicial code of their university. Thus, not teaching them how it is in the “real world” when you do commit such a heinous