September 21, 1984 (vol. 95, iss. 14) • Page Image 1
…Faculty play quiet role in code battle By THOMAS MILLER Third in a series .Although the battle over a code governing students' behavior outside the classroom has appeared to be a showdown between…
… students and ad- ministrators, there is a, third group whose behind-the-scenes, and oc- casionally public, role may play a bigger part than most think. The University's faculty certainly s more at stake than…
… first glance would reveal in the debate over adop- tion of a student code for nonacademic conduct. FACULTY leaders say they have at least two good reasons for being in- volved in the issue. Traditionally…
… faculty government has felt obligated to keep tabs on campus or educational developments which affect the civil liberties of students. "Believe it or not, faculty do take an interest in students and their…
… subcommittee of the faculty Senate Assembly, investigates national and local issues which may in- volve the civil rights of professors and students. Also, under current University bylaws, the faculty Senate must…
…- ministrators and the University regents may change University bylaws to bypass students and possibly even the faculty if the groups refuse to adopt the code. "(THE CODE)is a major campus issue," said Moerman…
…. "It is clearly not just an issue between the students and the administration." So far, however, faculty government and its leaders have kept a low profile in the debate, preferring to express opinions…
…- tigating the code and the possible bylaw ,change, at the request of the faculty Senate and the Michigan Student Assembly. In a report sent to University President Harold Shapiro last year, the board said…
… that it was "especially con- cerned that vague or open-ended wor- ding" in parts of the proposed code would encourage especially stiff or perhaps even arbitrary punishment of students. And by leaving…
… students confused over what is acceptable conduct and what is not, the code could have a "chilling effect" on legitimate protest or freedom of speech, the report said. MOERMAN SAID he wasn't entirely…




