<p>aka: Northeastern freshmen making their parents proud: getting expelled 3 days before classes start. </p>
<p>Boston - Two former Northeastern University freshmen are facing charges after prosecutors said one leaned out his dorm window Sunday and loudly told a woman in the dorm opposite his that he and his roommate were selling pot. </p>
<p>Oops. Two police officers happened to be nearby. </p>
<p>“If you’re looking for weed, my roommate Ferrante has some for sale,” Michael Emery said out the window, according to the Suffolk district attorney’s office. </p>
<p>Two plainclothes Boston officers in the building overheard the conversation and went to a second-floor room where they arrested Emery, 18, and Matthew Ferrante, 18, after finding about 4 ounces of marijuana; drug paraphernalia, including a scale; and several bottles of alcohol, prosecutors said. </p>
<p>The students were arraigned Tuesday on charges including possession of a Class D substance with intent to distribute in a school zone, a count that carries a maximum of two years in jail. </p>
<p>They pleaded not guilty, were released on personal recognizance and are due back in court next month. Attorneys for the men did not immediately return calls for comment. </p>
<p>They are no longer students at Northeastern, university spokeswoman Laura Shea said.</p>
<p>Im curious why there were police in the building- even plainclothes- is there usually trouble in that area?
I don’t think I have ever seen police at Reed, the CSOs ( community service officers) handle most everything.</p>
<p>According to the Globe, the students were yelling out of their dorm window (EK: NEU is an urban campus and there are always lots of police around the area, which is near the Fenway (home of the Red Sox) and is always very busy.</p>
<p>A case of “just too stupid to go to college.” (Although I wonder if this were just a case of kids being forced to go when or where they didn’t want to, and were trying to get kicked out, not thinking that they actually could be arrested as well?)</p>
<p>What a way to start a college career! In situations like this one, what is the difference between police and campus security? Would this have been handled in a similar fashion if the officers had been campus police/security rather than members of the Boston PD? Given that one of these young men was ‘shouting from the rootops’ of the intention to break the law, I suppose the police had little option! </p>
<p>Does a dorm room carry the same assumption of privacy as a private home? It’s my understanding that in most high schools students are told that there is no ‘assumption of privacy’ regarding their school lockers, for example, because the lockers are the property of the school. In other words, the school can search the lockers if they make that choice, without regard to privacy of the student. Just curious how that would apply to a dorm room regarding right to privacy.</p>
<p>I would assume that shouting through an open window is the equivalent of broadcasting. There can be no assumption of privacy. I don’t know about the policing at NEU. I would assume that if a Harvard student had shouted into the street through his open window, the police, whether HUPD or the Cambridge Police would have reacted the same way, namely by arresting the student who was loudly advertising his roommate had illegal stuff for sale.</p>
<p>chedva, my thought is these kids weren’t trying to get kicked out. I picture this situation as two giddy 18 year olds and an overexuberant (and yes, dumb) way of tasting ‘freedom’ for the first time. Boy was that freedom short-lived. Tough lesson but also not without its humor to those of us watching from a distance.</p>
<p>katliamom,
my goodness you gave me a moment of panic. I thought your daughter had been expelled!<br>
I hope that this doesn’t reflect too badly on NEU…every school has it share of dumber than dumb freshmen.</p>
<p>Lets see - illegal substances being made available by shouting from the rooftops (attempted drug dealing - illegal) - drug paraphanalia in the room (illegal) - alcohol in the room (possession - illegal) - uummmmmmmmmmm - kids under 21 - several charges here - since NEU - let alone the state of MA has a no tolerance policy - not even a question of them staying. There right to privacy was not even a question on this one.</p>
<p>What would hard to find campus jobs have to do with this?? nothing at all. This sure ends their college careers for quite a while tho - bet their parents are just thrilled!!</p>
<p>I wonder if their parents got a refund on tuition since they withdrew before classes started.</p>
<p>I would be so mad at my son for being an idiot I don’t think I would react rationally. I would have told him to join the Army but I don’t think the army would take them !</p>
^^ just a bit slow on the up-take - oops@@</p>