rPage Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, April. 4, 1969 Poge Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Frdy Arl4,16 Excerpis EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is We fa the major portion of the text of a controve statement issued by the Central Student Judiciary, explaining their elements action yesterday suspending all The poll proceedings in the trial of eight a shadov SDS mnembers. The trial will be tur resumed when CSJ receives "ac- to US, r ceptable" answers to the questions ?.result. listed at the'end of this document. Thisi We normally seek to proceed as domesti promptly as possible with con- tory life sideration and disposition of the ties whi matters brought on before us. We vite, leg do this both in aid of the con- The le venience of the parties, and in Universi obedience to the judicial due pro- the civil cess enjoined on us by the Student more pi Bill of Rights, which is declared merely, a source of law for us by the Stu- tives, to dent Government Council Con- We, w stitution. . ' cannot Nevertheless, in the matter ants het brought before us today, the same vision 1 concerns which usually urge speed, posite - call on us to delay. We accept sume th jurisdiction of this case, but sus- consent pend all further proceedings until but comi certain questions ... have received less pala formal and definite responses. who sta We certify these questions be- do not, cause, for the first time since We h Fall, 1967, we find before us a case required which cannot be fairly adjudicated of Righ by us . . . without a prior clarifi- coercive cation of the legal status of this and del body, and its relationship to other cised. University entities. There In all the cases hitherto before ent, fac us since Fall, 1967, the parties ac- we re-e3 cepted our. authority to give a fore pr( final and binding adjudication of This is t the controversy. This jurisdiction- interpre by-consent is the first basis of our ments of authority. versity Secondly, the student commu- this cas nity desires an impartial and com- stitution petent tribunal to settle its con- In the troversies, and acquiesces -iuntil we must this date =~- in our assumption of before u this duty. the dam The final basis of our authority proceed. is the willingness of the student for this body to thwart and defeat efforts ceeding by faculty or administrative per- the diffi sonnel to usurp the judging of as our ji student controversies, or the pun- Our s ishment of nonacademic miscon- problem duct of student defendants. (1) D It is also true that a disputed fendant and perhaps uncertain tie .xists, ters nom which in the eye of the legal sys- convicti tem entitles us to act as agents of other, in the Board of Regents, delegates other U: of the powers entrusted to them we wou] by the Constitution of this State. Presideu In every case previously before tection us, we proceeded with the highest sure to possible authority - theeconsent to the 1 of the parties, freely given. And - with an authority collateral and supplemental thereto, there was confidence throughout the con- CORR munity in our undertaking, and a for SF resulting protection against chal- lenges to our work. In such cases, is MA the clarification of our legal ties report( would add nothing to the moral authority, and little to the prac- dar in tical effect, of our deliberations. The D In this case, however, all is changed. from text of CSI statement DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN p om ace for the first time a rsy of great concern to: s outside this institution. ice power, until now never w behind the cases brought ises here, watchful of our is not a dispute over the c arrangements of dormi- . It is a matter with penal- bh well may require, or in- al enforcement. egal coercive powers of the ty's administration, and i authorities, are further-. resent not as enforcers but possibly as alterna- our own dispositions. who perceive this sharply, . presume that the defend- re brought to us have a ess clear. Quite the op- - we must conclusively pre- lat the defendants do not freely to our jurisdiction, e instead from fear of even atable judges, or enforcers, end behind us, to act, if we in this case. old that judicial fairness of us by the Student Bill ts demands that such a jurisdiction be defined imited, before it is exer- is a second,. and independ- tor which also requires that ,amine our authority be- °oceeding with this case. he unfortunate widespread tation of the public com- f the President of the Uni- regarding the test which se poses for our own in- aal survival or extinction. ese peculiar circumstances, , before calling the parties s, search for ways to mend rage done to our ability to to a fair judgement. And unhappy manner of pro- we again can only plead iculty of our circumstances justification. search brings us to these s: ouble Jeopardy: The de- cannot be sure, as mat- w stand, that acquittal or on by us will be a bar to ndependent proceedings by niversity agencies. Though ld willingly assume that nt Fleming intends the pro-, we desire but cannot as- the defendants, in fairnessr atter we cannot speak for ECTION - The date pring Commencement him, but must ask him to speak to us in such uncertainty of their for himself on this point. rights. (2) The enforceability of our (4) Our own ability to judge decision: The nompainats hr impartially: The innuendo some decision: The complainantsehave have found in President Flemning's rights to be protected; they dohaefudiPrsenFlmgs not mstatements, that we must please cme before us as cats-pawhim in our result or be dismissed of other interests, but as aggrieved from our position, must be erased parties under the rules of Central frmorpstoms eeae Student Judiciary, seeking to win on the highest authority. 'e r., iThese problems, we believe, protection regardless, and ide ust find solutions before we pro- pendent of, -adm istrative con- -ceed. It is our decision, then, to venience or embarrassment in fu- certify these questions to the Pres- filling our judgement. Yet as mat- ident of the University, who, as a now stand, we would proceedman trained in law and aware of unable to say that the University itsn is by its administration, must be, as we S its own rules committed to unt him, among the most eager legally enforcing any judgement to contribute a solution to these we make in conformity with our difficulties: rules. -Under which Regental Bylaws (3) The validity of our rules of and executive decisions are we em- procedure: We must, if we act at powered to hear this case? all, act in accord with the rules -Under the terms of the above that the Student Government authority, may we hear' the case Council Constitution and our in obedience to our Constitution Manual prescribe for us. Yet we! and Manual? cannot assure the parties that -Is the University committed they may relly on these for their to enforcing any decision we nake, protection, and raise them as ob- proper under the Constitution and jections in subsequent appeals. We Manual, subject only to rights of cannot require the parties to come appeal as specified and limited by the above documents, and the fac- ulty's right to review expulsions and suspensions? -Will the University be bound, in any subsequent legal proceed- ings arising from this controversy, by the findings of fact properly made by us from the record of the case? -Is 'the University committed not to adjudicate before any of its agencies the cases we decide, properly brought before us under our Manual and Constitution? -Is the University committed not to revoke our juridiction, e.g. by the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal, except to replace us by a body of enduring authority?" Dated: April 3, 1969 -Marc Wohl Chairman, Central Student Judiciary -Hamilton Pitt -Jeff Hansen -Barbara Addison -William Bleich -Alec Nelson -Larry Glover -Jane Hoffman -Daniel Share (Continued from Page 3) lected Colleges," on Friday, April 4 at 2:00 p.m. in West Alcove. Rackham Building, Chairman: R. J. Young. Dorothy Florence Patterson, Speech, Dissertation: "An Historical, Descrip- tive Study of the Televiison Teaching 'of Spanish in the Detroit Public.- Schools Followinghthe Principles of Foreign Languages in the Elementary Sehool (FLES)," on Friday, April 4, 1969, at 3:15 p.m. in Room 2020 Frieze Building, Chairman: E. E. Willis. Alan Heezen, Mathematics, Disserta- tion: "Some Subgroups of the Finite IUnitary Group," on Friday, April 4 at 4:00 p.m. in Room y3231Angell Hall, Chairman: J. E. McLaughlin. READ AND USE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS 0 4 --Provide a reliable and econom- ical public transportation system capable of serving the total com- munity. 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