'Ucode By LAURIE DELATER First of a series If you stole a microscope from a University chemistry lab today, the University might take you to court. If convicted of larceny, you could be sent to prison or fined. But chances are you'd just be placed on probation and return to campus. But under a proposed code for governing student behavior outside of the classroom, the University could for- ce you to pay for a new microscope or bar you from the lab. IN ITS PRESENT form, the Student Code for Nonacademic Conduct is a mixed bag of rules and sanctions designed to crack down on student misbehavior ranging from theft or recklessly pulling a fire alarm to assaulting For the most recent draft of the conduct code, see Page 5. another student or instructor,. The conduct code has been the center of heated controversy between students, faculty and administrators since last winter. Students held rallies, stayed home from classes, and } called into University President Harold Shapiro's office to protest the code. Leaders of last year's Michigan Student Assembly said they would not support the rules. And fraternities, sororities and co-operatives banded together 0 0 Rules and rep rimands to voice their opposition. THE LATEST revision of the guidelines, dated March 5, is currently under review by the Michigan Student Assembly, the faculty Senate and the administration. The University's regents are expected to discuss, the code at their October meeting. If adopted by the regents, the code would replace the existing Rules for the University Community. Those rules, though in place since 1973, have proved unenforceable, University officials say. (See related story, Page 5.) The new set of guidelines would apply to all students, whether they live in University residence halls, frater- nities, sororities, off-campus housing or co-operatives. They would not apply to anyone else at the University. Faculty and staff have separate conduct rules on the University's books. ATHLETIC teams and student organizations on campus could also be punished as a group if they violated rules of the code such as hazing. In cases of theft, vandalism, or arson on campus, te cvu could be used to punish a student through a University board, even though he or she may be taken to court and convicted of the same crime. The University could punish a student by a warning, demanding payment for damage, suspension or expulsion. In other instances like harassment, the code could be used as a grievance procedure to iron out faculty-to-student or student-to-student conflicts. THE CODE also prohibits students from interfering with the "freedom of expression" or work of another student, faculty or staff member. But the definition of what exactly constitutes disruption is vague and guidelines for the sub- sequent punishment are even more ambiguous. Students who sat in on Engineering Prof. Thomas Senior's laboratory last fell could have been suspended un- der the new code if Senior and his assistants had com- plained that their research was disrupted, said Dan Shar- phorn, a policy adviser to the vice president for academic affairs. Sharphorn is helping the administration revise the code. The students stayed in Senior's lab for two days to protest research his staff was conducting because they said it had military applications. The lab was not being usedi at the time of the sit-in and Senior did not complain. The proposed code is patterned after guidelines adopted by other colleges to regulate student behavior on or off campus. The University's Dearborn campus last fall ap- proved a similar code applicable to students, athletic teams and organizations. THE NEW CODE would allow the University to set up its own judicial system to try students, even if the student simultaneously faces civil court proceedings for the same crime. The students could be reprimanded for the same crime twice, but could not receive identical punishments, Sharp- horn said. The University, for example, would not require a student who breaks a window to pay for damage if the courts already levied a fine against him or her, he added. Henry Johnson, the University's vice president for stud- ent services, said the judicial system is designed to be quicker and less bureaucratic than the courts. He said the unofficial proceedings would not require as much evidence or analysis as the courts, but he said they would be as fair. STUDENT LEADERS charge that the proposed judicial system would deny students due process, could be biased, or could place students in double jeopardy. Under the system, a complaint that a student has violated one of the rules must be filed with an appointed ad- ministrator. After a preliminary investigation, the ad- ministrator would decide whether to drop the complaint or to hold a hearing on the charge. In possible violations that would lead only to a warning, payment for damage or other lesser reprimands, the stud- ent would be called to testify before a University hearing officer. see CODE, Page 5 Ninety-five Years k Diag of Lt4U E itrial Free Warmand sunny with a high in E ditorial___ __Freed o m _ Wte 70s. Vol. XCV No. 12 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, September 19, 1984 15 Cents Ten Pages Fansriis-Club behave as -....1 Tigers . 1 ilor use clinch ALk East title C .f ¢,rk $s under fire By PHIL NUSSELL t '" . be anotherk(citation)," Kecksaid. Special to the Daily By BILL SPINDLE bESADta anh reorcfihtvoation)"Kksa. DETROIT - It finally happened in Officials from the Union's University h a Id ta eoto h ilt Detroit last night. The Detroit Tigers, -Club bar and the State Liquor Control been sent to the Attorney General, after an incredible season, clinched the Commission will meet next week to who would decide whether to issue a American League Eastern Division for discuss recent violations of the club's formal citation to the U-Club the first time since 1972 by downing the s ~. liquor license, the Daily learned U-Club officials have two weeks from Milwaukee Brewers, 3-0. yesterday. Sept. 14, the day the Liquor Control All 48,810.Hfans were filled ih -The U-Club was cited with one Commission mailed the citation to club emotion thiroughout the night. The violation of state liquor control laws officials, to decide how to respond, said cheering was virtually constant along .,Aug. 28, after a liquor control official Ken Wosniak, a commission aide. with monster "waves" which rivaled was servu The club can either acknowledge that ed adrik onJul^18 those of Michigan Stadium. THE BAR has a "private club" the violation occurred and explai the THE ENTIRE scene was almost liquor license which restricts sales to circumstances, ask for a hearing on the straight out of a page in a Hollywood students, professors, staff members, matter, or not respond n which case script. Some fans did m