However, the College can place a student on an involuntary leave of absence for alleged criminal behavior. Involuntary leaves are not officially considered to be disciplinary measures, but a student can usually avoid them by taking a voluntary leave of absence.
Nonetheless, both students registered for the spring semester as seniors on Wednesday, according to the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Office of the Registrar. Pomey refused to say whether she would stay at Harvard for the spring semester.
Pomey produced last spring’s Theatricals production, “Fangs for the Memories,” and was the business manager of their spring 2000 production, “The Jewel of Denial.”
She has also been active in public service organizations and campus social life, co-founding the women’s final club Isis this fall and was a former president of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.
While Isis refused to comment on the club’s practice toward a member’s alleged criminal conduct—and will “remain silent”—they credited Pomey with her central role in founding Isis. Her activities included raising funds to get the club off the ground, said Isis co-founder Anne M. Fernandez ’03.
“She essentially began the club in terms of infrastructure, recruitment and fundraising,” Fernandez said.
Fernandez confirmed that Pomey is still a member of the club, and would remain one for the spring semester.
At the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), where she performed community service and served on the organization’s cabinet, fellow volunteers praised Pomey for her commitment to public service and said they were not considering excluding Pomey from any of their activities.
“She’s had a long-term commitment to public service throughout her stay here,” said Paul A. McDonald, PBHA’s executive director.
“Not knowing the details of the indictment, I would still admire her as a role model,” said Timothy R. Schneider ’03, who co-directs the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program and has worked with Pomey in the past.
Pomey, an economics concentrator, was featured in the December issue of The Crimson’s weekly magazine Fifteen Minutes (FM), as one of its 15 outstanding seniors. She told FM then that she planned on going into law.
Little information was available on Gomes last night. He worked at the Abercrombie and Fitch store in Harvard Square for more than a year and also served as a researcher-writer for Let’s Go in the summer of 2000.
Several people who worked or lived with Gomes, a government concentrator, declined to comment, saying that they did not know him well.
—Staff Writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu.