1831 — Oakland College, Mississippi — Campus Gun Ban

Constitution & Laws of the Institution of Learning Under the Care of the Mississippi Presbytery, Oakland College 10 (1831)

Summary

Carrying weapons restricted on campus.

Statutory Text

OF MISDEMEANORS, OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS.

Sec. 1. Neglect of study—interrupting the studies of others—profaneness—playing at games of cards or chance duelling, or aiding or abetting it—wearing or carrying a dirk or other deadly weapon—intemperance in any degree—keeping company with persons of known immoral character—resorting to places of expensive amusement, & every other species of immoral conduct, of which the Faculty are the sole judges, are offences; and shall be punished as hereinafter directed.

2. The punishments of the Institution shall be admonition, rebuke, suspension and expulsion.

3. The Faculty shall apply these punishments, except expulsion; and whenever the offence in their estimation shall merit expulsion, the President shall convoke the Board of Trustees, and lay before them, the facts in the case for their decision. But the Board shall act exclusivley on the written report of the Faculty.

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Title 1831 — Oakland College, Mississippi — Campus Gun Ban
Instrument Other Arms
Jurisdiction MS
Date 1831