Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Boston liquor stores and bars yesterday to limit alcohol sales to students on Super Bowl weekend, and he is urging universities to immediately expel students who take part in game-related riots.
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Several college officials who attended yesterday's meeting said the mayor never urged them to dispense with their normal disciplinary procedures or to instantly expel students without a hearing. Instead, he urged them to pursue the toughest possible sanctions against students caught misbehaving on Super Bowl Sunday.
''There was a very strong consensus
that a message should be given to students that was unambiguous and that included the possibility of expulsion for inappropriate conduct," said David J. Sargent, Suffolk University president. ''But that was not something that anyone suggested should be immediate or across the board regardless of . . . the offense."
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In an interview after yesterday's meeting with university representatives, Menino said schools should automatically expel students involved in ''egregious cases of violence." He said that last year a Boston College student was thrown out the day after he tossed something in a police officer's face. Menino did not say whether the student had been arrested, nor did he cite proof used to determine the student's guilt. ''Within a day that dormitory room was cleaned out, and that kid was gone from the college. No due process," he said, stressing the words.
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