Hillfolk
Join up and help!
by Irvana Keagy and Judy McGhee
Coeds are rebelling on both coasts—and at KIJ.
In an article from Parade magazine a few weeks ago, entitled "Today's Coed: Why Is She Rebelling?" a twenty-one-year-old KU woman is quoted.
"IT'S DANGEROUS to protect students from themselves and their society," she said. "College is a synthetic environment, a cushion which makes it harder to adjust to reality later. If a college's purpose is to educate, then it should educate."
Judy
The article said she had been allowed to live in an off-campus apartmnt after she claimed tha t restrictions caused her great mental anguish.
The event which has triggered much discussion of this nature on campus is the Associated Women Students (AWS) Regulations Convention set for March 12.
DISCUSSIONS ARE now being held in every living group in preparation for the convention. Women are being asked what rules they would want made if there were no university regulations at all. Among the main issues are closing, keys, housing restrictions, and drinking rules.
Although these topics are controversial, the convention is not intended to be any kind of free-for-all. It is highly organized, and its purpose is to change regulations through debate and compromise.
Representing every living group will be a delegation of five persons. The large residence halls will have three delegations.
AFTER THE NEW regulations have been passed at the convention, they will be ratified by the Senate and approved by Dean Emily Taylor.
The success of the convention will depend on the ability of the delegates to reach an effective and mature compromise.
Irvana
Also on the KU campus is a movement to "protect" the women students from the regulations imposed on them by the AWS.
ORGANIZATIONS supporting the movement, including the KU Civil Rights Council (CRC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), feel it their moral duty to stand guard for the freedom of university womanhood.
In the questions submitted Friday to Provost Surface by the two groups the studens ask, "What is the rational and legal justification for discriminating against women?"
HILLFOLK calls to all those women students to join the interest groups and convention delegations in their respective houses and halls and to speak for themselves.
opinion, fact and fancy
It just ain't as fair
by Bill Robinson
Hearing boards, student-faculty disciplinary committees, moot courts, student courts—each a judicial body of some sort, one form of which is common to virtually every campus in the United States today. At KU the form that of a student-faculty disciplinary committee. All forms, however, have been heavily criticized lately from the standpoint that students' civil liberties are being violated.
There is one bright spot in the dimly lit circle of present dissatisfaction, that being that there have been some challenging legal-studies prepared concerning the presence of and actions taken by student disciplinary groups. One such study, prepared by William W. Van Alstyne, professor of law at Duke University Law School is of particular interest.
THE FOLLOWING "Procedure in Cases of Alleged Student Misconduct" is taken from the text of Prof. Alstyne's report, and is the
result of what he considers to be the best system of student disciplinary action. The first point of
the procedure would eliminate KU's student - faculty disciplinary committee, leaving such matters in the hands of personnel and academic deans.
A. The determination of student misconduct is primarily the responsibility of the Dean of Students and the Deans of the several colleges to administer according to procedures established in their discretion as will best promote the overall interests of the university.
B. Students who are disciplined by a sanction as serious as expulsion, suspension for longer than one semester or entry of a permanent notation on any record currently or prospectively available to any person outside the university, have the right to appeal to the Hearing Board. Students receiving a less severe sanction may be heard at the discretion of the Board.
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- The Hearing Board consists of five faculty members, serving staggered five year terms, and elected by the faculty senate.
Students appearing before the Hearing Board have the right to be accompanied and represented by an advisor of their choice during all stages of the proceeding before the Board.
The Hearing Board proceeding is de novo, without reference to any matter developed previously in an informal proceeding in which disciplinary action was considered.
- During the proceeding, the student shall be given an opportunity to testify and to present other evidence and witnesses relevant to the charge or the possible penalties involved.
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Assuming that the above procedure is fully legal and infringes on no part of statutory proceedings, there is but one consideration to be made before adopting it—where does the student fit in? He fits into the hearing perfectly, but should he be only the recipient of "justice," and not the instigator as well? It may be legal, but in comparison to the present system at KU (which is also within legal restrictions), it "just isn't fair."
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Two weeks ago, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Mark must stay put. Their reasons were enlightening. It seems that Painter is "either an agnostic or atheist. . . has read a lot of Zen Buddhism," and is a "political liberal." Also (and we're not making this up), the Court accused Painter of offering the child "more freedom of conduct and thought" and "more intellectual stimulation." On the other hand, the grandparents could provide a "stable, dependable, middle-class, Middle West background."
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A recent court case in Iowa may shed some light on the notorious politico-legal question of in loco parentis. When his mother died in a car crash several years ago, Mark Painter was taken in by his maternal grandparents. Mark's father, Harold, a newsman (Christian Science Monitor, Oakland Tribune), who recently remarried and settled in California as a Job Corps photogopher, wants Mark back. When the grandparents refused, Painter sued.
wilderness
by mike miller and jim girard
THIS IS ALL INTERESTING in itself, of course, but it seems to us that there is a broader application to be made, regarding university policies. According to the doctrine of in loco parentis, the university assumes the position of foster parent to the student. As most students are aware, many legal questions have lately been raised regarding the functioning of this doctrine.
Most questions that have been raised thus far in regard to in loco parentis have been concerned with whether the doctrine conflicts with the individual rights of the students and their former parents, and whether the university can insure a necessary degree of freedom. Obviously, now, this is not the question.
RATHER, WE MUST ASK, is the university providing its foster children a stable, dependable, middle-class, Middle West background? Rather, is there not too great a degree of personal freedom, too much intellectual stimulation? It is well known that the university offers a course called "Eastern Civilization." Is this proper parental control? And as for political leanings, what about all those Democrats in the political science and economics departments?
The question, then, is, does the University sufficiently restrict personal and intellectual freedom? In order to meet the requirement of parenthood, the university must enact even more stringent policies, forbid enrollment in classes that might present non-Middle-Western ideas, require Bible readings and chapel attendance, and make sure that there is no one more liberal than a Goldwater Republican on the university staff. In the light of the Iowa decision, it plainly may be seen that the university is sadly abusing the privileges of in loco parents.