The 16 current TCU students, who were separated from the university after last week’s drug bust, could ask to be reinstated.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said each of the separated students is entitled to a hearing to determine their permanent disposition with the university.

Once the students attend the disciplinary hearing they will then go through the determined disciplinary action, which could include suspension, Lisa Albert, university spokesperson, wrote in an email.

“What normally happens is most of those people never come to the hearing,” Boschini said.

Students are normally advised by their lawyers to not attend their hearing because if convicted by their peers, the outcome doesn’t look good for them in court, he said. Others just never show up to their hearing because they’ve moved past the event both emotionally and physically. Attorney Trent Loftin said his client will be attending the hearing.

 “We’re definitely going to try it [to get his client reinstated],” Loftin said. “ We’re going through procedural of due process of the constitution to get him reinstated because I feel like he’s been falsely accused as of other ones.”

Loftin said he could not give his client’s name because it is impending on his client’s defense right now. He did give his thoughts on the case though.

“I think when all the evidence is presented and the facts are presented, our client and most of the other people will be exonerated when this is all finished,” Loftin said.

For now the separated students, who have not been formally charged, are banned from the university. The students are considered separated, rather than suspended, Albert wrote in an email.

“They’re no longer students and they cannot attend class,” Boschini said.

The students are also not allowed on campus right now but will be able to come back for a judicial hearing, he said.

According to the student handbook, the penalty for a violation of the Drug Abuse Policy for sale, distribution, or manufacture of a prescription drug or controlled substance would be permanent expulsion from the university.