The Tom Knight Off-Campus Lunch situation

From Stmargarets

In order to be allowed to travel off-campus to purchase their lunch, the class of 2003 was required to submit a form indicating parental consent. Thanks to poor planning from dean, Regina Ballard, the following policy was implemented: until every student had submitted their form, no student would be allowed off campus. In an act of stunning civil disobedience, Thomas Knight tested the will of the administration and his classmates, refusing to submit his form until the policy was changed. After a four week stand-off, hateful phone calls began to pour into the Knight household, nightly. Though the identity of the callers is still uncertain. Under considerable pressure from his parents, Tom caved in and submitted his form. All was not lost, however, as the following year, the school's policy was changed, so only students who had not submitted forms would be kept on campus. The name of the new rule was appropriate enough; they called it: "The Tom Knight Clause".

Recently this policy has been reversed and all members of a class must now submit their off campus forms if anyone in the class wishes to leave.