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Committee Studies
Code Formulation
On Student Rights

The Committee on Student Rights and
Responsibilities, created last year to
recommend provisions for a new Code of
Conduct, plans to review next week the
means by which students have the right
to make changes in the code.

Formed to resolve disagreement
between students and the administration
on several issues of what a new conduct code
should contain, the committee will "review the
process by which the Standard of Conduct is
formulated and make recommendations on its
implementation and the machinery with which
to do this," said Daniel Meador, chairman of
the group.

New members of the committee are Harold
Dunbar, a third year law student, and Shelton
Horsley, associate professor of surgery. No
longer a member of the committee is Robert
Wood, assistant professor of government and
foreign affairs.

Over the summer, materials were sent to the
participants, divided into approximately equal
number of students and teachers, concerning
the rights students and the issue of campus
dissent. These materials included the Carnegie
Commission Report of Campus Dissent, the
ACLU'S Administrators' Guide to Codes of
Conduct, and literature from the judicial bodies
of the University.

Meeting at 3:30 in Pavilion 8, the committee
will concentrate on the "whole philosophy
behind student rights and where jurisdiction
lies," said Brian Siegel, a fourth-year student
member of the committee.