Code of Conduct - Private University in FL

[deathcode]

I'm attending a Catholic Private University in South Florida. I have an email account from the university just like every student/faculty/staff.
I started to receive emails from a staff member in big quantities about events and notifications for students, these emails came from her personal account at school. I was receiving near 10 emails a day from this person when I had enough and I reply to one of them saying if she could please stop bombing my email account with emails that were not of my interests. She replied that those emails were of the interest of all the University community and that I can choose not to read them, also she told me she had no way to take me off her mailing list.
What I did was to create a rule on my email account so that every email that she sends, will be automatically forwarded to her email account.
Due to such action, every email that she was sending, she would get it back (I did that to show her how annoying her unsolicited emails were).
She sent me an email asking me to stop doing this so I replied that she can opt out not to read them.
Consequence of all this I received an email from the Dean of Students asking me to stop such behavior.
After back and forth emails with this person, about policies and SPAM conversations, he showed me a PDF file with the email policies which clearly states that communications with the student body will be sent fro the official University email address (which is not this ladie's email address by the way). The Dean asked me to stop by his office to "talk" about the email policies and code of conduct and all that, giving me one week to schedule a meeting with him otherwise there would be an Administrative Hearing. Since I already read the policies, I told him I was a very busy guy, and that since I already stopped forwarding emails to this lady, that I considered the matter closed and that I I see no need to meet with him to discuss anything and that he can go ahead and have his meeting.
A week has passed and I received an email saying that I have a meeting at his office and I don't want to attend.
I believe this guy is upset at me and he took this whole issue in a personal way and that's why he's conducting this meeting.
Also based on what I read in the code of conduct, I don't think I violated any rules and if I did, I stopped my actions when I was "warned" by the dean.
Like I said before, I think he's upset because I don't want to meet with him and basically I told him to "fuck off".
My Question is:
_ Do I have the obligation to attend this "Administrative Hearing" (he said it will be conducted without me if I don't show up).
_ What are my rights as a student?
_ Can they suspend me for something that I haven't done? Remember I stopped my behavior when asked to do so.
_ Can I hire a lawer to go on my behalf? This whole thing turned out to be a matter of "I'm not showing at your office because I don't fucking care about you bitch" (sorry the language)
Any advice on my situation?

Regards

Ezequiel Santamaria

[Philesq]

Hiring a lawyer should put an end to the problem quickly. You do not have to attend the hearing since it is not a criminal court, but they could take further action and suspend or expel you. You could advise the school that if they take any action against you, that you will seek a court order staying such action. However, the best course of action for you is to retain a lawyer.

I had a similar problem in college. I represented myself at the hearing and won. The office of residential life decided that they did not like the outcome of the hearing and evicted me from the dorm anyway. That's when I hired a lawyer. He sent one letter to the university threatening a lawsuit and the matter was immediately settled allowing me to remain in the dorm; refunding the rent paid for the semester; waiving the rent for the following year; and allowing me to move to the best dorm on campus and choose the room I wanted.

I would probably look for a criminal lawyer or a personal injury lawyer. An attorney in either of these fields should be able to easily and quickly take care of the problem. You will probably have the best luck finding a criminal lawyer because personal injury lawyers usually take cases where a much higher fee is involved.

[Blacklight]

i think you can change you personal e-mail that you are using in your school, unless the e-mail was
issued by the school itself.