There was always “that guy” in every grade. Like that guy who ran through the quad naked during the first month of freshman year. Or then there’s that guy who always got into senseless fights, or that guy who got drunk and ripped down all the posters on your floor and then broke a huge window in the dorm lobby. The rest of us find solace in knowing that karma always gets the best of that guy in the end.
This year, karma fell asleep at the wheel.
William Rom, who could easily be considered the “that guy” from the class of 2004, was awarded $110,000 in a decision by a Bridgeport jury when he sued Fairfield University for the loss of income associated with his 2002 suspension and subsequent withdrawal.
While the case remained “pending” in Bridgeport Superior Court (Fairfield still has the opportunity to appeal the decision), disciplinarians in the Dean of Students office were forced to wrestle with whether decisions made in the jurisprudential bubble of Fairfield should also have to stand valid in a state courthouse.
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