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classes and/or the use of weapons and force used to commit off campus crimes."
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Foster, who eliminated the off-campus jurisdiction language, said the University does not have jurisdiction over off-campus conduct. This precedent was ruled on in a court case in 1907.
"This [amendment's] language comes straight from their ruling that said the University could not exercise jurisdiction over an event that happened off campus." Foster said.
Although Foster's amendment passed on March 23, several senators voiced concerns. Their concerns: If senators present an amended draft of the code to administration for approval without language that gives the University off-campus jurisdiction, administrators may push their draft forward without Senate's amendments.
"In regards to off-campus jurisdiction, if there aren't [further] amendments [in Full Senate], I'm not sure what would happen," said Madeline Dickerson, Rights Committee chair. "That's the whole issue behind what's been happening this semester, is we don't have any final answers."
tions, and just haven't gotten the answers."
Dickerson added:
"We've asked those ques-
While the authority to develop the rules concerning non-academic student conduct rests with the full Student Senate body according to the current Code, the final version of the Code is still subject to the approval of the Chancellor. The Code also grants the Office of Student Affairs the authority to administer and follow up on code violations.
Durham did not respond to a request for comment Friday about the administration's plans for potentially approving an alternate draft of the code.
Off-Campus jurisdiction lawsuit
Off-Campus
The student — who was unnamed in the lawsuit — filed a complaint with the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access and Yeasin was given a strict "no-contact" order against the student.
Navid Yeasin, a former University student, filed a lawsuit against the University in March of 2014. Yeasin alleged he was wrongfully expelled for a series of tweets that indirectly addressed his relationship with another student at the University.
A student conduct hearing on November 4, 2013 found that Yeasin violated the University's sexual harassment policy. The panel recommended his expul-
Yeasin appealed his expulsion to the University Judicial Board, which sided with Durham's decision, so he continued the legal process into judicial review in the Douglas County District Court.
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ston and Durham agreed with the panel's findings. Yeasin was expelled from the University on November 13, 2013.
The District Court ruled in Yeasin's favor on Nov. 17, 2014. The University was ordered to readmit Yeasin, reimburse or credit him for his 2013 fall semester tuition and pay transcript fees.
The University appealed the district court ruling to the Kansas Court of Appeals roughly a month later. The three-judge panel unanimously sided with Yeasin in a September 2015 decision that said:
"The Student Code [of Rights and Responsibilities] did not give the University authority to act when the misconduct occurred somewhere other than its campus or at University sponsored or supervised events."
Terry Leibold, a lawyer from Lawrence who served as Yeasin's legal counsel during his petition against the University, said the University's insistence for off-campus jurisdiction in student code violations is a "direct result" of Yeasin's lawsuit. He said the University is trying to overcome that decision.
Legal outlook
"Why they would want to have jurisdiction over off-campus conduct, I'm not sure what is driving that," Leibold said. "It certainly doesn't seem like a very good idea to me from anybody's perspective."
The Chancellor's ability to approve her own version of the Student Code of Rights and Responsibilities raises questions as to why governing bodies like University Senate and Student Senate even exist, Leibold said.
"It seems odd to me, that why even have a Student Senate if [the Chancellor] can just do what she wants anyway? 'What is the point of a Student Senate?' I guess is my question," he said.
Dickerson said if an alternate draft of the code is approved without Senate's consent, administrators would likely receive negative feedback from both senators and the student body.
"If they push through a code that doesn't have any of our amendments in it, they'll probably get backlash from Senate because we are the student voice." Dickerson said. "We represent all of our peers and we were elected to do that."
She added; "If they don't take our voices into consideration and our constituents' voices into consideration, then are they really
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New study shows unhealthy foods make up majority of American diet
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From soda and Pop-Tarts to ramen and pizza, the average college student's diet is known for being a mixed bag of unhealthy options. A new study published this month in the BMJ, an online medical journal, shows that students' mentality when it comes to food might not be too far removed from the rest of the country.
Foods like frozen meals, pizza, soft drinks, cookies, cakes and salty snacks comprise nearly 57.8 percent of the standard American diet, according to the study. The study also found 0.7 percent of the average American's diet is vegetables.
The main problem with processed items, Fortin said, is that the consumer lacks control over what goes into the food. As a result, a diet of mostly ready-made products will include extra unwanted fats, sugars and salts.
Kelsey Fortin, a health educator at Watkins Health Services, specializes in educating students to be more conscious about the food they put in their bodies.
Fortin said she likes to explain the short-term and long-term effects of processed foods by comparing the body to a car.
Trevor Bashaw, a freshman from Manhattan, Kan., is a member of the Lawrence group "Food Not Bombs," which focuses on providing healthy, vegetarian-based food to people in need. Bashaw said he thinks it is easy for college students to pick up bad habits when it comes to food.
Fortin said many students do not realize processed grains, foods high in salt, sugar, saturated fats and trans fats can contribute to major health problems.
"So, if I put the wrong type of gasoline in my car, it might run, but it's not going to run as efficiently, and that could be damaging things on the inside and eventually, it's not going to run very well." Fortin said.
"I think it's hard with the population that we're working with because it's kind of the idea that, 'Oh those are the things that affect people when they're older,' Fortin said.
"A lot of times you're not thinking about where the food is coming from or how good it is for you," Bashaw said.
The best way to avoid instant gratification — and processed foods — is to be proactive about eating habits and emphasize things like nutrition-label literacy
going to go grab whatever," Fortin said, "So had I taken that extra time on Sunday to go to the grocery store, and proactively plan, then I would have already known what I was going to do."
and meal planning, Fortin said.
"All of a sudden it's Monday night and it's dinner time and I need to go to the grocery store, and I don't have time to go to the grocery store, and I don't have anything at home I don't have time to cook, because I have to do x, y, or z, and I'm
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listening to students?"
Dickerson said the Senators' sentiment about proceeding to present a draft of the code was uncertain during the Rights Committee meeting. She said concerns were raised about the administration's ability to pass their own draft.
"If they aren't going to take our voices into consideration, why are we pretending to even have one?" she said. "As chair, are we at this point because we were forced to be at this point by the administration?
"We passed this draft, but was it because we wanted to, or because we had no other option?"
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