UA Codes and Judicial Committee

Minutes
Codes and Judicial Committee
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
2:00pm
501F Day Hall

Present: R. Helms, L. Falkson, E. Klass, K. Clermont, K. Rourke, J. Robinson, E. Loew T. Bishop.

I. Approval of minutes

November 12, 2003

R. Helms asked for comments of the minutes. Minutes were approved.

II. Report from the UA/SA

R. Helms said the CJC recommended at the last meeting that M. Grant, Tim Marchell and himself go to the SA meeting to get undergraduate feedback on the recommendation regarding disciplinary records and alcohol violations. The SA did not really want anything to do with it. They think that having an alcohol violation on their record will keep them out of Law and Medical schools. The code is already strict with this policy and it doesn’t look like there can be a compromise between the SA and the CJC. R. Helms said that they went to the UA and did not bring this issue up, but they did up changing the limit on the amount of community work violation and it was approved. The issue of other sanctions for violations of probation recommendation was also approved. The issue of the disciplinary record for alcohol is still open. R. Helms thinks that if they go back to the UA it may pass.

E. Klass said that there are new faculty and staff members on the UA and it will probably outweigh the undergrad vote in favor of it. From a student prospective, it is not popular. He proposed a compromise to read that habitual offenders or people who are JA’ed for the same offense it would be permissible to be on their disciplinary record but there would be a strict provision in the code that would say that. For the first offense, it would kept off the record. The students are most afraid of that people who generally don’t have bad behavior are going to get caught one time and have it be on their record. The people who continue to break this one law should be the ones who have it on their record.

J. Robinson agreed.

R. Helms said that at the SA meeting, several students thought that 10 offenses would warrant it being on a student’s record.

E. Klass said that he would vote for the change if it was actually written in the code that nothing happens on the first offense even though the JA already has that policy because it is more public and not just a JA policy. A disciplinary record sounds like a criminal record.

There was more discussion on what the change should say and how the undergrads will take it. There was no quorum so the CJC wasn’t able to make a change and it was recommended that R. Helms take the original proposal back to the UA.

A. Change to CJC Charter

R. Helms said that the UA approved the change to the charter that the CJC recommended to give them complete responsibility for recommending hearing board candidates.

B. Disciplinary records

III. Code changes from JA

A. Add to Title Three, Article II a new section “BB” that would prohibit the possession of firearms and weapons.

IV. Items from Hearing Board chair (see memo of April 10, 2003)

A. Ensure same panel looks at “changed circumstances” in cases of suspension

B. Allow chair of the board to issue procedural rulings without panel override

L. Falkson said that she had spoken with David Yeh and he said that they send a hard copy of the code to the freshman before they arrive on campus. He was thinking that maybe they could send as a .pdf in an email.

R. Helms said that maybe there should be a summary sheet to send or something that would encourage them to read it.

V. Adjournment

R. Helms adjourned at 2:45.