80th Year, No.92
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 5, 1970
Senate respects students' rights
A Code for Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct was passed by the Student Senate Wednesday night after certain revisions were adopted.
Major sections considered were
Photo by Ron Bishop
Dean's discuss right's bill Emily Taylor, dean of women, and William M. Balfour, dean of student affairs, discuss possible revisions in the Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct Code.
Confidentiality of Records, Violation of Law and University Discipline. Use of Facilities and Use of University Funds.
The important discussion centered on Confidentiality of Records which emphasizes the privacy of all records relating to students. The Code states that respect must be accorded the confidential relationship between the University and its students.
Concerning the article are the following controlling principles:
1. The student academic record, supporting documents and student files are confidential.
2. Separate files for academic, discipline proceedings, medical and psychiatric, financial aid, student personnel and guidance bureau records are to be maintained.
3. With some exceptions, no entry shall be made in any student record without notice to the student.
4. Each student shall have access to to his records and files.
5. Only upon prior written consent of the student concerned, can information in any student file be released to an individual or organization. Exceptions are recordkeeping personnel and members
of the faculty with administrative assignments for internal educational purposes and routine purposes. Officials from federal, state and local agencies may be given general information if expressly requested.
6. A student may request that his records be destroyed upon graduation. Personnel records shall be maintained for more than five years.
In regard to law and discipline, the Code says if violation of a law occurs on campus and is also a violation of a published University regulation, the University can take action against an offender who has been subjected to civil prosecution. This applies only when the University interest involved is clearly distinct from that of the community outside of the University.
A student who intentionally causes a substantial disruption, the Code states, or obstruction of University activities may be subject to a sanction not greater than suspension. A second offense under this section may subject a student to a maximum sanction of expulsion.
Limitations under the Code says
Mobe hears Velvel
Lawrence Velvel, KU associate professor of law, told approximately 75 people at the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) meeting Wednesday night that inflation, race relations and poverty are important issues but war is the most important issue of all.
Concerning human resources, Velvel said that every minute the President thinks about war he is ignoring other domestic issues. Engineers building ABM systems could be designing engines that
"The reason is greenbacks." Velvet said. He said that until the war is ended other important issues cannot be solved because of lack of finances and human resources.
would not pollute the environment, he said.
Money spent for war makes it impossible to solve other issues," Velvel said.
Velvel called President Nixon's Vietnamization program "a hoax." He said it is like saying to the North Vietnamese, "If you don't agree to end the war, we agree to get out."
Speaking about the situation in Laos, Velvel said if the United States sends troops there "the social upheaval will be terrible."
"If the United States does not end the Vietnam War, war will end the United States," Velvel said.
13-18, and Anti-Draft Week March 16-22. SMC members divided into work groups to discuss tactics for ending the war such as tax resistance, interfering with draft boards and house-to-house canvassing to solicit funds for the Quaker Rehabilitation Center in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam. Fund raising for the Center will be Saturday with headquarters in the American Baptist Center.
At the end of Velvel's speech, SMC members discussed future plans for Moritorium Week April
Tentative plans also call for an SMC investigation into defense contracts at KU and academic qualifications of ROTC instructors.
The meeting concluded with a majority decision for combined anti-war activity in Lawrence and Kansas City on April 15.
that no sanctions or other disciplinary measures may be imposed against a student by the University concerning nonacademic conduct other than what is prescribed in the sections.
Concerning Use of Facilities, the Code states that University facilities shall be assigned to student organizations for regular business meetings, social functions and for programs open to the public. Facilities are also to be made available to groups within the community.
LATE BULLETIN
The following statement was released this morning by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., as his reply to demands made by the BSU last week:
The recent demands of the Black Student Union at the University of Kansas cannot be considered as reasonable, legal, or attainable as short-term goals. Even to consider these demands by September of this year, or by 1971, would require the unconscionable and illegal termination of hundreds of faculty and staff members.
If the BSU were to address itself to long-range goals instead of short-range demands, reasoning men and women would not question goals that are consistent with equal opportunity for all minority groups.
The pursuit of equal opportunity can be accelerated, but affirmative action programs and incremental growth are far from the firing of large numbers of one group of people in order to create instant jobs for another group of people.
The University of Kansas will continue its work toward greater opportunities for minority groups, but our efforts will be within our resources, within reason and within the law.
--says the referendum, "the issue will be put to student referendum in the March 17-18 election.
Miller circulates Wescoe Hall petition
A petition with the intent to put the Wescoe Hall financing to a referendum vote is being circulated by its authors David Miller, Eudora junior seeking student body president, and Dan Beck, Prairie Village, junior, running for student body vice-president.
The Wesco Hall Referendum says that "the Student Senate passed an increase of $7.50 per student per semester in student fees" and would be paid "for the next 20 years" for academic buildings like Wesco Hall. If the required names are acquired,
So far the petition has tallied 1,222 of the necessary 1,247 names, but they have until March 9. Beck thinks they will be successful and hopes for as many as 1,600 signatures.
Miller said that Rick Von Ende, Abilene, Texas, graduate student, was going to challenge the petition because he does not want it. Miller added that Greg Thomas, Shawnee Mission sophomore seeking the position of student body vice-president as a member of the Alliance Party, had signed the petition.
Beck said that members of the other campus parties are disenchanted with their parties platforms, in particular Marilyn Foreman, Sioux Falls, S.D., freshman running for Student Senate with the Alliance. He said she was unhappy with the Alliance's stand of the Vietnam
situation and wanted something more pragmatic so she has formed the Oliver coalition in support of Miller's platform.
Miller said that last spring a referendum decision was passed to have student representation on the basis of living groups to supplement the current school representation and for more student power in the University Senate. He said that no action had been taken by the Student Senate Executive Committee, in particular Peter George, Rick Von Ende and David Awbrey.
"We think that direct orders from the student body should be followed up," he said.
Miller said that he wanted to make
government more responsive to the student problems. He said that students leaving University resident halls was such a problem for which he wanted a solution. The solution is not for a year long contract he said, but to give the students a chance to voice their complaints and move towards an answer.
Beck said that off-campus housing to the north and east was a slum and would not meet with the Lawrence Municipal Minimal Housing Code.
"Over one year ago," he said, "the student government had the responsibility to investigate. Nothing has been done and the slums are still there. We suggest constructive action."