Police charged East Carolina University Student Government Association President M. Cole Jones, with “misdemeanor charges of breaking and entering as well as assault on a female and assault with a lethal weapon,” recently, according to an article in ECU’s newspaper, The East Carolinian.

With elections taking place at State, administrators said if a situation such as this happened at the University, it would be processed like a normal student.

Evelyn Reiman, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, said the process to determine whether the president could continue his term would be determined by his status as a student; this in turn affects his standing in office.

“It would really be the same process that would occur for any student,” she said.

Reiman said typically a staff member in the Office of Student Conduct would assess the situation and determine the appropriate steps to take.

“[However,] every case is so specific,” she said.

Bobby Mills, student body president candidate, said the student would probably be directed to Paul Cousins, director for the Office of Student Conduct, or Chancellor James Oblinger before anything drastic like termination happened.

“I don’t know how we would [exactly] handle this,” Mills, a junior in economics and political science, said.

Adam Compton, student body treasurer and candidate for SBP, said considering the new Policies, Rules and Regulations, the University would probably demand to see the president’s judicial history.

He said a pending review in the Office of Student Conduct would probably follow and result in a termination of office.

“[Termination] would depend on that student’s record and what that student has done in the past,” Compton, a junior in construction engineering and management, said.

ECU has yet to remove Jones from office, according to the article in The East Carolinian.

Compton said he thinks the case would be different here.

“I definitely think that here at NCSU he may have been removed from office,” he said.

According to Mills, N.C. State would probably not remove the student from office. He said instead the University would just keep a closer watch on the president’s following behavior.

“Just like people would probably treat you different if you did something wrong,” he said.

Mills said the atmosphere right now concerning criminal cases seems to be guilty until proven innocent.

“A lot of people would probably lose some respect about that just because [the SBP is] in that situation,” he said.