It is no secret that there exists racial bias in the formation of this country’s most powerful institutions, including in higher education. Studies have shown that students of color are more likely to be punished, and are punished more severely, than white students. This project aims to identify how students perceive racial bias to operate within the adjudication of social and academic code violations at Bowdoin College. This paper utilizes a Foucauldian perspective on discourse and critical race theory to analyze the ways in which a neoliberal ideology and its ensuing “race-blind” racism and staunch individualism may operate within the judicial system at Bowdoin. This research finds that academic institutions are likely to view students of color as financial liabilities sapping resources away from ‘deserving’ students – and that this rhetoric and its ensuing policies can persist because of neoliberal contradictions in discourses of equity.