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bornyo, did he get tossed as in permanently tossed? my friends had some fuckups among them since i played lacrosse--i thought standard procedure was you take a year off then petition to come back- which they invariably say yes to.

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He will graduate high school this spring. He was there on an early entry, full college credit type program. His big mistake was drinking with some underage whores in the same program, one of which yakked all over the hall of her dorm. She went to the infirmary, her friends narced everybody out, and my boy got called before an "honors court". He copped a plea, packed his bags, called his mother, and changed his first choice of colleges to Columbia.

One day he will have one hell of a story to tell, but right now it is a very raw nerve for him. I will be sure to refer him to this thread so he can learn that Harvard will forgive him, with a petition, after a year. (Yeah, right).

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Ah shit....flood of youthful indiscretion memories coming.

In 1991, me and my 3 roommates were called before the Harvard....dun dun dunnnnn..... AD BOARD (James knows what I mean.) We had been accused by the Master of Quincy House of being a "disruptive element", after several non-university sanctioned parties (the last of which we handed out flyers inviting neighboring University Students from BC and BU to something called "Six Kegs over Quincy House".)

Among the straws that broke the camels back was the fact that several of the High School students who worked in the Quincy House Dining hall, kids who I and My roomies were cool with and acknowledged, got hold of a flyer, and midway through our bash, half of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School showed up. Scandal ensued...the Quincy house security guard called the Master's residence, saying Quincy House had been overrun by teenage Gangbangers, Harvard Police showed up (all 4 officers), Cambridge Police were called, everyone was told to leave single file so the police could take names...our kegs were taken, and we were spared arrest only by the intervention of the Master of Leverett House, whose son was in the room next to ours and therefore guilty by proximity (actually he was co-sponsor of "Six Kegs Over Quincy".)

The ensuing ad board case was a classic battle of stuffed shirt-over 50-elitist-mothballsmelling-geriatric-social misfits vs. rebellious normal dudes-in-nerds-clothing. The more serious charges dealt with the presence of the teenagers (5 girls came in their cheerleading outfits)...the most comical charge was that we were throwing FULL beer cans against the walls outside our door (I replied "Dean Epps, we would NEVER throw a FULL beer can at anything.)

Soup to nuts, we escaped forced LOA/expulsion because no one was injured or hurt, (I also argued, tongue in cheek, that the kids just "showed up" and it was cold, late and we didn't want them wandering the street...blah blah blah ) We were however, put on Double Secret Probation.