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BC swimmers, divers demand school retract their suspension and apologize for accusing them of hazing

The Heights reports a law firm hired by 28 members of the Boston College swimming and diving teams says school officials jumped the gun in suspending all of them over alleged hazing before the school had even finished its investigation.

The athletics department had accused the teams of forcing at least some freshmen members to binge drink and swallow their own vomit. The law firm says all the school has done is subject every team member to campus and national ridicule without proof all of them were involved.

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Perhaps that is a good metaphor, but I think you meant members.

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oh. I didn't even blink at that as I assumed it was some sort of school nickname like aggies or Hoosiers

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Thanks, fixed.

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I guess if you are wanting to condemn something in the clearest terms then yes, you are going to suspend them all. interested to know what comes of it

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I am sure they worked very hard on their swimming to get into BC. It's very difficult to see them as anything other than entitled brats.

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Collective guilt by association.

Nice going kommandant.

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Is that you?

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like, nuħing ken extinguish our flame, not evən wottər !
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aww, wye'd yoo edit it.

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It spoils the bunch.

Yeah...one guy on the team suddenly found a way to make all the freshmen swallow vomit. The rest had no idea this was going on...

Sure.

Get the fuck out. Stuff like this doesn't go on without either everyone having been through it (and saying nothing) or knowing who's doing it (and saying nothing). It's the reason one of the 5 policy violations that were mentioned in the original letter to the athletes was "complicity".

They're going to find that pretty much everyone on the team (who wasn't the victims) either knew about or participated in the hazing. These lawyers' clients are just in the find-out stage.

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Are we saying that convincing BC kids to drink vomit was 1. a stretch, or 2. a bad thing?

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Assistant and Full Time coaches were well aware of it and the less influential/not as popular team members couldn't speak up for fear of reprisal and/or loss of a scholarship.

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Looks like the Jesuits, as usual, jumped the gun.

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Kaz has it all figured out.

Let's just skip the formalities and get straight to the guilty until proven innocent part.

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Slow news day or just busy building dams in Roslindale?

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...right on time with irrelevant bullshit.

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huh?

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Mary Ann's?

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Suspending the whole program makes sense when there is a question of how deep the rot goes. But individual guilt still matters.

People celebrating here should remember that BC cares far more about institutional liability and repetitional damage than it does about the legal and ethical boundaries around whatever it is these students and their coaches may have been doing.

As such, administrators will be more than happy to throw the lot of them under the bus now and quietly close files without finding later. There is a huge imbalance of power here between an institution with a multibillion-dollar endowment and the individuals over whom it will preside as judge, jury, and executioner. Not to mention the livelihoods of employees who could also be rendered radioactive by these proceedings.

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