accepted said:
Sorry but not in the U.S. I know because getting your feelings hurt does not constitute a violation of one's civil rights. I went to college between 2003 to 2005. Some of the classes I took did involve laws (my major was accounting and I had to take business law 101 and a ethics class). If everyone who hurt someone's feelings in the U.S was kicked out of college there would be no students. Chances are you believe this because someone did something in addition to hurting a victims feelings that legitimately got them booted that most of us are unaware of. I know these procedures and I have had to use them myself to defend myself in a court room on occasion in the past. I also have friendly acquaintances who are attorneys and I learned about this through them as well. If you still don't believe me ask Moo. He has a attorney and will tell you the same. Those girls cannot be booted for simply laughing at the OP.
I attended a private religious university between 2005 and 2009, and I can attest to this. You aren't going to get kicked out for laughing at someone or hurting their feelings. The most that is going to happen is that you are going to have to have a talk with your hall director about it, or maybe the dean if it was a serious enough incident (or a repetitive incident).
The only minor incident I have firsthand knowledge of that got someone kicked out of college was actually at a neighboring religious university that was also a dry campus. While drinking was swept under the rug and dealt with on a "multiple strike" policy, it was zero-tolerance at our neighbor's university - because their funding primarily came from one particularly wealthy branch of the Christian Church who would have have provided them with money if they tolerated drinking in any capacity.
To think about it from another angle, colleges need enrollment numbers and high
retention levels to make themselves look good in order to get the funding they want. Like I said, it's all about the money. They have a vested interest in keeping you there and unless it's going to hurt their bottom line, they are not going to toss you out on your ass for making fun of someone. Right now we have a lot of administrators across the country getting in some hot water because we are discovering that they have been covering up on-campus rapes committed by students.
Firsthand knowledge: I burnt myself out pretty hard, then took myself out of college due to being unable to maintain my grades. I didn't have the best disciplinary record, either. Even with my abysmal grades at the time, and the record, they STILL did everything they could to try to keep me there. I basically had to put my foot down and tell them that I was leaving, end of story.
