With the rise of infractions happening over the years at WCC, prefects and student life alike have struggled to come up with creative ideas to enforce the handbook. The common fallback plan is to fine a student, but the school is quickly realizing that something more is needed. Students either don’t have the available funds to pay off the finds, or they put up a fight and refuse to do so. In fact, although many have been led to believe that student debt consists of tuition dues, the IIT Secret Services has found that a hefty percentage of student debt is contributed to the fines levied by numerous violations.
Obviously, crimes against the handbook had to come to a stop, so for the sake of the community, a clear statement had to be made by the school. Accordingly, a panel of school officials came together and locked themselves into an upper-room, and swore they would not come out until they had come to a conclusion on the matter. Several days later, they emerged with the perfect solution.
We consider the dignity of a student to be worth far more than fifteen dollars, and so consider the loss of this dignity in the stocks to be an adequate fine for suitably grave offences.”
Stocks, the school announced, were to be instituted in a public place of the school to enforce the handbook. The idea was flawless; in accordance with the technology policy, the school wished to keep with a more classic form of punishment. Therefore, if a student was found in violation of certain rules of the handbook, he/she was to be escorted by a prefect to be put in the stocks so as to realize the gravity of their offense. “The time spent in such a wonderful contraption will vary by the extremeness of the disobedience.” The Director of Institutional Enforcement in Student Coercion was heard to say publicly. “Of course, like the old days, the crime will also be written on a card right below their head. We consider the dignity of a student to be worth far more than fifteen dollars, and so consider the loss of this dignity in the stocks to be an adequate fine for suitably grave offenses.” He further declined to comment on what such a suitably grave offense would look like, stating, only that it would be left up to student life and prefects’ discretion.
The stocks are to be placed in Crux, the hub of community at Wyoming Catholic, so that students and Landerites alike might acknowledge the punishments incurred by those who refuse to stand by the handbook. An idea was floated that rotten fruits and veggies should be available from Frassati, but that idea was shut down. The students should be seen and known in silence for the misbehavior of their actions.
The new rule has already been unanimously passed by the Disciplinary Committee and Student Life, so all that remains is for it to be signed into law by the President. However, this is another issue in and of itself, for the signature must be penned by the next President, as Dr. Ben Artery is in the process of stepping down. Yet, the school is confident that such a law will easily be put into effect when the time comes.