Update 10:24 PM: I have now spoken with more sources and they confirm that Wilner was acquitted of absolutely nothing. In fact, some comments are confusing disobeying the "code" of conduct with "drunk and disorderly" conduct. It seems also likely that Wilner's friends are carrying water for him in this comment section.
Update 6:46 PM: Wilner was found guilty of violating CMC code of conduct, not, as comments suggest, of drunk and disorderly conduct.
Note: This week I will be writing and releasing posts on Wilner's J-Board, the details of which I have been gathering since it occurred last Friday. I beg your patience, as I am also writing a very detailed thesis and planning a trip to Oslo.
Some students have written in to ask me some questions about the Wilner trial which occurred, fittingly enough, on April's Fools Day. The twenty hours of work was not a joke.
It appears that the J-Board reason that as the victim -- Sasha Farina CMC '11 -- and Michael Wilner CMC '11 are both graduating in May 2011 that there was not a harsh punishment. The punishment of 20 hours, however, does raise certain questions. Farina has bravely come forward with her name.
This has been mentioned in the comment section of another post, but it bears repeating: If Wilner is innocent and hit her only once and in accident, then it seems 20 hours is excessive. If he is guilty -- which the J-Board held he is -- then it is a slap on the wrist. When a student graduates should not determine the time of their sentencing.
Compare that punishment to that of Eric Yingling CMC '12, a former Marine who was J-Boarded for self-defense. The facts of the Yingling case are summarized here, both allow me to recap: CMCer sees drunken under aged Pomona student stealing from CMC, confronts him, asks him to stop, and is then attacked by said Pomona student. With one punch and in self defense, Yingling knocks student out. Pomona student apologizes to Yingling and asks that he not be J-Boarded. Yingling was still J-Boarded, less than a week after the incident occurred, because, in the words of Josh Siegel CMC '10 he supposedly could have used less force. Siegel left out how one can use less force than one punch. (After I blogged about that incident, Siegel came to my room and demanded that I take down the post. When I refused, he grew belligerent and I called campus safety when he refused to leave. He left before campus safety arrived.)
Contrast that to Wilner who had his trial set more than a month after the event, giving him a lot of time to prep his witnesses and even, it appears, include a witness -- a Nathaniel Brown of Pomona -- who allegedly wasn't even at the event.
Wilner's sentence is the first I have heard of in the history of CMC that included work hours.
To be continued...
Update 6:46 PM: Wilner was found guilty of violating CMC code of conduct, not, as comments suggest, of drunk and disorderly conduct.
Note: This week I will be writing and releasing posts on Wilner's J-Board, the details of which I have been gathering since it occurred last Friday. I beg your patience, as I am also writing a very detailed thesis and planning a trip to Oslo.
Some students have written in to ask me some questions about the Wilner trial which occurred, fittingly enough, on April's Fools Day. The twenty hours of work was not a joke.
It appears that the J-Board reason that as the victim -- Sasha Farina CMC '11 -- and Michael Wilner CMC '11 are both graduating in May 2011 that there was not a harsh punishment. The punishment of 20 hours, however, does raise certain questions. Farina has bravely come forward with her name.
This has been mentioned in the comment section of another post, but it bears repeating: If Wilner is innocent and hit her only once and in accident, then it seems 20 hours is excessive. If he is guilty -- which the J-Board held he is -- then it is a slap on the wrist. When a student graduates should not determine the time of their sentencing.
Compare that punishment to that of Eric Yingling CMC '12, a former Marine who was J-Boarded for self-defense. The facts of the Yingling case are summarized here, both allow me to recap: CMCer sees drunken under aged Pomona student stealing from CMC, confronts him, asks him to stop, and is then attacked by said Pomona student. With one punch and in self defense, Yingling knocks student out. Pomona student apologizes to Yingling and asks that he not be J-Boarded. Yingling was still J-Boarded, less than a week after the incident occurred, because, in the words of Josh Siegel CMC '10 he supposedly could have used less force. Siegel left out how one can use less force than one punch. (After I blogged about that incident, Siegel came to my room and demanded that I take down the post. When I refused, he grew belligerent and I called campus safety when he refused to leave. He left before campus safety arrived.)
Contrast that to Wilner who had his trial set more than a month after the event, giving him a lot of time to prep his witnesses and even, it appears, include a witness -- a Nathaniel Brown of Pomona -- who allegedly wasn't even at the event.
Wilner's sentence is the first I have heard of in the history of CMC that included work hours.
