Dustin Ponder Sanctions Email Exchange

Email 1 - 9/12/13 #

To Dustin

You have posted on the Tampa SDS Facebook page. You went to the SDS/DD movie social and an SDS party in Gainesville. You’ve attended other events that weren’t officially SDS events but were essentially part of the student movement. You have not presented proof of going to counseling. Your attempts to push the limits or violate the rules suggest you don’t truly feel remorse, or else you would proactively and enthusiastically try to comply. Don’t post on the SDS page. Don’t go to SDS parties. Stay out of the student movement.

Email 2 - Dustin Ponder <dponder44@gmail.com> - 9/13/13 #

My attendance of counseling has been shown to my unit leader.

I have stayed out the student movement while working on all my issues and attempting to make amends to all those affected. I commented on status that my partner posted which I thought was hers, it was in my news feed. IMO this is a petty and sectarian political tactic. All furthers issues you can discuss with my unit leader, and I’ll be appealing any other issue to D.O and national. I believe this “lifelong ban” on any interaction with my friends in Gainesville, who happened to be students, or anykind of small interaction with political folks with no evaluation or consideration of progress or my actual real life attempts to correct contradictions is unprincipled. Especially when I have made every effort to comply with the terms.

I have been extremely proactive in tackling personal issues in my life and trying to make amends to the parties affected. To suggest I “don’t truly feel remorse” is pretty disgust personal attack.