But Rooney says a law called the "CriminalOffender's Records Information Acts" requires thatstudent privacy be maintained at all times.Consequently, he says administrators are notsupposed to be informed of student arrests.
"The procedure does not change whether it is amember of the Harvard community," Rooney says."The problem that arises is the privacy issueabout who and how the information is shared untilhe is arraigned and it becomes official."
In Ntshanga's case, Rooney says he had theoption to call an administrator. The student sayshe had only one phone call, and thought it wouldbe better spent on an effort to reach his friendand find his student ID.
But Epps says the police should have called anadministrator anyway.
"[The police] are there to help students so thepresumption is that they would exhaust internalprocedures before relying on criminal standards,"Epps says. "I believe that the police should havefollowed normal practice and called one of thedeans or his house staff to verify that he was astudent in the college."
And Johnson--contradicting Rooney--agrees thatadministrators should be informed.
"Obviously if a student is wronged we make aneffort to inform the deans," Johnson says