PORTLAND (AP) – The parents of a teenager who was killed in a high-speed car accident two years ago want the driver to be prohibited from attending the college where both were students when the accident occurred.

Luke Chouinard is poised to return to St. Joseph’s College in Standish when he is released from jail this fall after serving his sentence for manslaughter.

Chouinard was at the wheel when he crashed on a country road in Naples in August 2003 in an accident that killed John Queenan and injured another student. Choiuinard and Queenan were both freshman at the time.

Queenan’s parents believe Chouinard’s return to campus would disrupt other students, particularly those who were friends with their son. Barring a convicted felon from attending Saint Joseph’s would send a powerful message to students about the consequences of reckless behavior, they said.

But they have also asked the college to help get Chouinard into another school so that he can continue his education elsewhere.

“It just doesn’t feel right that (Chouinard) would be able to go back,” said John F. Queenan.

Saint Joseph’s President David House said Chouinard remains enrolled and that the school does not intend to take any unilateral action against him because of his conviction.

“I know that Luke will have satisfied the criminal sanction assessed against him by the state of Maine,” House wrote in a letter to the Queenans provided by the family. “I believe that no useful purpose would be served…to prevent his return to the college, if that is what he wishes to do.”

Chouinard and Queenan were friends for the few days before classes started in the fall of 2003.

Queenan, of Hooksett, N.H., was a member of the golf team. Chouinard, of Oxford, was a soccer player. Both were 19 and lived across the hall from each other.

John Queenan had been on campus just five days when his parents got a call in the middle of the night on Aug. 28, 2003, from a nurse at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

Their son had been in a crash on Route 114 in Naples while returning to campus after a trip to the Maine Mall. He died the next day. Police said Chouinard was driving twice the 40 mph speed limit.

A jury convicted him of manslaughter and other charges and he was sentenced by a judge to 15 months in jail, about half what prosecutors had requested.

Chouinard is looking forward to returning to school, but that doesn’t mean he’s been able to put the accident behind him, said Leonard Sharon, an Auburn lawyer who represented him and believes efforts to bar Chouinard from Saint Joseph’s benefit no one.

Kyle Rennick of Beverly, Mass., who was also in the car when it crashed, doesn’t think Chouinard should return to the school. Rennick broke his jaw in two places in the accident and had to have his knee reconstructed.

Rennick’s perception of the accident and of Chouinard changed over time. He suffered a severe concussion and for awhile remembered nothing of the crash or the period leading up to it. In time, his memory returned.

“I tried supporting Luke for a little while,” Rennick said. “Then the courts got involved and it got very defensive and Luke got very cold to me.”