<p>I wish to add some additional information to my post.</p>
<p>I agree that bad experiences can happen everywhere. However, good organizations need to be able to deal with the bad experiences. What I mean is this: If you deal with an organization and an employee of that organization treats you badly or does something wrong, you do have recourse to address the higher hierarchical levels of the organization to have the situation fixed. One employee does not reflect the image of the organization. What does reflect is how the organization recovers from that bad experience.</p>
<p>So for instance, a good manufacturer will fix/replace your product if the quality is bad. A good airline will put you in an hotel or assign you to a different flight if there is a problem with your trip. A good restaurant will give you a free meal if there is a problem with your server or dish.</p>
<p>So I understand that a student may end up having a problem with a professor or advisor. What I do not understand is how the college is unable to fix the problem after the fact. In my experience Williams deans and faculty committees are very unresponsive to the students, and very protective of their faculty/admins.</p>
<p>To Blueph, who are somewhat questioning the truth of what I am saying, and also implies that I am trying to attribute the fault of all problems to other faculty: I mentioned on some other posts that eventually I will tell my story with more details, so readers can judge. Right now, I cannot do that because, as most of you know, Williams is a small college, and it is very easy for the “squeaky wheel” to be identified and ostracized. If I wanted to blame Williams for the sake of doing it, I would come up with a fake story right now. But I am not the kind of person. I prefer to wait to be able to tell exactly what I experienced. </p>
<p>One thing that I can say at this point and anyone can verify its veracity is this, which I already mentioned before: The Student Handbook makes it very clear that students have to follow all applicable Federal, State, and Local Laws. On the other hand, a faculty can only be overturned by the College in case of discrimination. Wouldn’t you agree that a faculty should be overturned by the College whenever its actions discriminate against a student <em>or</em> violates any other applicable law or regulation?</p>