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APRIL 1, 2007 - Page ]0 FEATURES ~'195N~rth'viii~ii~"""""""""""'" : ~McDaniel College : ,2 College Hill ~ [Westminster, Maryland 21157 : l ~Gretchen McKay, Director of Academic Affairs ~Elderdice H~Jl 1 iMcfraniel College : :2 College Hill ~ lWestminster, Maryland 21157 j [April 28, 2006 , ~Dear Ms. McKay: ~ ll'm writing to you to appeal a decision by McDaniel College's Conduct Board not to let l [me 'walk' on the graduation ceremony this May. As a second semester senior l'm : ~scheduled to receive my diploma at this ceremony 1 ~The reason the Conduct Board has decided not to let me 'walk' at the graduation was duei ho my behavior surrounding this years Spring Fling party, which was held on Saturday, 1 lApril22 nd That weekend I'm ashamed to admit Ihad a little too much to drink. This 1 [was also the time when McDaniel College Trustees were visiting the college. During the: :Trustees dinner the night before, Istreaked through Englar Dining HaU, got up on a table: ~ land danced to the song 'Freeeek' by George Michael, thanks to a CD switch I made that 1 • [afternoon with the CD of the national anthem. On Saturday, after much drinking the : lwhole morning, Iwas dared by some friends to spray paint the presidents house calling ~ • :her a number of unpleasant names. Needless to say I won the bet. On Saturday 1also : This is the biUest "Hmm ..." ~borrowed my uncle's fire truck and tilled Gill Center with water, which not surprisingly l ever published. It's not page ~ruined the event that was organized indoors due to rain. ~ filler. It's grcundbreaking. ;1 have since wholeheartedly apologized to the president, the entire board of trustees, the 1 lConduct Board, the students attending Spring Fling and the lady who was hospitalized 1 [due to a heart attack after my streaking act in Englar. I would like to let you know that : [my entire family will be attending the graduation ceremony, and it would absolutely l FREE PRESS STAFF : devastate them if I didn't 'walk' to receive the diploma that I so justly deserve. 1 hope : iyou can find it in your heart to appeal the decision by the Conduct Board and let me ; l'walk'. My family and Iwould be forever grateful. ~ Co--Editors Web "Editor Djerdj Matkovic '07 Spiderman M1ke.Ha:~'Q8 i'"-i)~~~ I Emily Biondo ,'09 John Lock.' Influences Art Director Socrates "Thomas Hobbes Pablo Ptcassc }1?SUS Christ [Djerdj Matkovic : Advisors on Democracy Descartes : ;;>< : John Dewey '55 Jean Lyotard My submission for the Green Terror Plato Mohatma Gandhi Hegel News Editor Dostoyevsky Jean Baudrilliard '07 mascot competition that won't win George Walker Bush '08 Emmanuel Kant 1.&> Tolstoy Fukuyama Commentary Editor Ronald Reagan Jaques Dernda '07 Ralph waldo Emerson Michael Foucault '07 Charlemagne Rtgoberto Gioguerimini '07 Sports Editor Henry David Thoreau Allen Iverson '0] WiUiamJames Rafeal Palmeiro '(}6 Richard Rcrty '07 ComelWest Page Design Heinrich Boell - Emily Biondo '09 Reskolrukov The Author Revolutionary Consultants Photography Evan Ticknor '10 Che Cuevera Karl Marx Mike Habegger 'OS Copy Editor Pat O'Toole '07 space in any way they~e The McDaniel Free Press dO: =~~-;(te based religion, gender, .sexual Orientation, nat~~ on .on a?~, race, handicaPI or marital status, but does discrimin gin, condition of ,._~-_ . Mail to: ate good from bad. n.eM