Ad hoc Board compels Qureshi Resignation PDF Print E-mail
By Farooq Aslam and Taylor Hartrick   
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
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Can students be held responsible for the actions of their roommates? The university administration thinks they can. Undergraduate Student Govern­ment (USG) Vice President Ammar Qureshi’s resignation on 7 February was the end result of a process that began late last term.

 

After his roommate hosted sev­eral banned alumni on-campus, Qureshi was brought before an ad hoc, unofficial Disciplinary Board that put him on disciplinary pro­bation. Under student government law, this compelled him to resign his post.   

Qureshi has since challenged the authority of the Disciplinary Board, calling it “unconstitutional” and “il­legal”.    

The process that led to the resig­nation originated from an incident on 21 November 2007.  Tomek Jurkowski, a College III RA who was on duty, witnessed one of the two banned alumni in the apartment shared by Ammar Qureshi and Johannes Pilkahn. Along with another RA – Warren Laine – Jurkowski reported the inci­dent to College Master Götz Pfander and the campus porters.   

When Prof. Pfander and the por­ters arrived at the apartment, they questioned Qureshi about the inci­dent. While Qureshi first denied the presence of the banned students in the apartment, he later admitted otherwise.   

 

 

The porters then subsequently escorted the two banned students off-campus.  

When informed of the situation, university Vice President Dr. Ziegler- Jöns formed an ad hoc Disciplinary Board to judge the case of Qureshi and Pilkahn. The Board consisted of Prof. Michael Bau and Prof. Klaus Schömann from the faculty, as well as Larissa Kühler from the adminis­tration and Giannina Schaeffer from the Student Court.  

 

 

Qureshi proclaims that the two banned students were not his guests, but those of his room­mate. During the hearings, Pilkahn claimed full responsibility for the incident, while Qureshi declared that he was in his room at the time and with the door closed.   

Moreover, Qureshi stated that he had not violated any existing rules or regulations when he failed to report the banned students to the campus authorities.  

 

 

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