University of Central Florida violates students' civil rights!!!

In 2004, the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida stalked and harrassed a PhD student. First she accused the student of stealing from her home, then she placed a restraining order on the student using bogus charges, and then she stalked the student at his office and his car meets in spite of a directive from the judge telling her not to do so. The student appealed these actions by attempting to have the restraining order lifted. As part of the process, he had to send the plantiff a copy of the judge's decision by mail each time he did so. The third time he did so the plaintiff went to UCF police for the third time, and this time UCF police officer Eric Morales arrested the student for "contact," although in actuality he was violating the student's civil right to petition the court. The student was held for the night in prison without bond, and then tried by the Office of Student Conduct on charges of "stalking, personal abuse, commission of a felony or misdemeanor, etc." At this hearing, the student's accuser, the accuser's boss (the Dean of Graduate Studies), and arresting police officer Eric Morales were all absent. The student had earlier complained to the Dean of Graduate Studies about his accuser, and the Dean had violated the student's confidentiality by showing his accuser the confidential messages he had sent to the Dean complaining about his accuser and asking that she not be able to access his student records. Anyway, at the hearing, a panel which had been biased by the accuser's victim impact statement and a letter in which she slanderously labelled the student as an "abuser" caused the panel to discount or interrupt most of his testimony and witnesses, to find him guilty, and for two of the panel members to recommend he be suspended for a semester. One of the panel members was a Pat Euhuntz, an Economics professor at the university, who interrupted the student a total of 15 times. The student's lawyer pointed out that the student's civil right to face his accuser had been violated, and a letter was sent requesting another hearing on this basis. The Office of Student Conduct ignored this appeal for five weeks, until the student said he would go public with a student newspaper article published shortly after his hearing in which the Dean of the Office of Student Conduct, Patricia MacKown, stated that at UCF civil rights are a "luxury." The Office of Student Conduct granted him a new hearing the very next day, stating that his right to face his accuser had not been honored. The Office of Student Conduct then threatened to suspend his records when he did not respond in a timely manner, and when he did respond they tried to solidify a date which would have violated the restraining order and force his hand to it, leading to another possible arrest of the student. After a lengthy battle between the Office of Student Conduct and the student, student's father, and student's lawyer, a date after the restraining order was to expire was scheduled. The restraining order did expire, and the judge's final decision on whether to prosecute was: "Take no action--this is a bunch of overblown baloney!" The state prosecutor refused to prosecute, stating that there was "no clear evidence, conflicting statements, and other motives," as reasons for not prosecuting. In any case, my brother was granted another hearing, and this time his accuser was present although she continued to protest, but the arresting police officer and Dean of Graduate Studies were both not present. My brother was only given 24 hours notice of hearing instead of the 72 hours required in the Golden Rules for the Office of Student Conduct, and his lawyer also was unable to be present in this short notice. The hearing went on anyway. The student's accuser was presented with the photos of her stalking the student at his office and at his car meets, and had no good rebuttle to such except to accuse him of fabricating evidence and to state that she could not recall the judge's order to stay away from the car meets. Several of the officers of the Office of Student Conduct present appeared to be in dismay at her responses, as well as the hearing officer, Dean of Orientation Services. Several witnesses appeared, some in the student's favor, but the student was still found guilty, almost apologetically, and given lighter terms of sentencing than the last time. The student appealed the hearing to the highest level on campus, but was turned down each time, and the final time his sentence was lightened to only having to stay away from his accuser on campus. However, the student could no longer handle the harrassment and trampling of his dignity and civil rights, and lapsed into a diabetic coma from which he nearly died. He stayed in the hospital for a week in intensive care, and the total bills from everything that happened to him, legal and medical, amounted to around $50,000. The President of UCF, in a letter to the student's father, stated that the Office of Student Conduct had not acted inappropriately, but did not address the subject of civil or student rights. These have still been trampled and have not been redressed as of yet.