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Originally Posted by vreihen16

From working almost 40 years in academia and looking at my calendar, I am pretty certain that the school's position at this point of the semester and academic year will be to cross their fingers for a few more weeks and hope that one or both of the parties either graduates or drops out on their own.

If they send the stalker through the student judicial process, the best case scenario would be the school telling the stalker to either drop out of be expelled. If they choose to drop out, their financial aid will still pay the school and the disciplinary action won't go on their academic record when they transfer to another school for the fall semester. At this time of year, the wheels of the student justice process won't turn fast enough to resolve the matter before the spring semester ends.

The best thing would be if the stalker is a senior that's going to graduate next month. The problem will likely resolve itself when he graduates, and the school has the option to hold his approval to walk in the graduation ceremony as a disciplinary action outside of the student judicial process. Imagine the embarrassment of having to explain to your parental units why you're suddenly not going to be at graduation!

Anyway, my $0.02 is to tell the room mate to thoroughly read her student handbook regarding codes of student conduct and reporting procedures. Thanks to Title IX, all of this stuff must be documented and provided to every single student by law. Follow the process in those docs to the letter, and don't assume that the campus police are the correct place to [...]

This is great advice.