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Student Revised 'Code Of Conduct'

The Student Council Ad Hoc
Committee's Code of Conduct did not
appear in full in yesterday's The Cavalier
Daily. The following is the complete
Code of Conduct as revised by the
committee:

STATEMENT ON THE RIGHTS
AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
OF STUDENTS
PREAMBLE

The University of Virginia is a community
of scholars based upon mutual respect and
trust; a community whose students have proven
that they are capable of enlightened
self-government by conducting the Honor
System. The University is committed to
preserving the exercise of any right guaranteed
to individuals by the Constitution. It is clear
that, in a community of learning, infringements
of such rights cannot be tolerated. Members of
the University community assume an obligation
to conduct themselves in a manner compatible
with the University's function as an educational
institution and to be free to learn in an
atmosphere of mutual respect and
understanding. To fulfill its function of
imparting and gaining knowledge, the
University has the responsibility to protect the
individual's rights and to discipline those who
would infringe upon such rights.

As a way of making operative the
University's fundamental nature and purpose,
the students address themselves to their rights
and accountabilities by defining the
relationships of the institution to its members
and of the members to each other.

The Student Judiciary Committee has final
jurisdiction within the University community
regarding General Accountability and
Sanctions.

RIGHTS

The University affirms the essential dignity
of the individual. In order that this dignity may
be insured and the fullest measure of
educational opportunity afforded for all, the
University recognizes the following rights of all
its members:

1. To exercise full rights as citizens.

2. To academic freedom: including the
freedom to speak, inquire, to hear and be
heard; to the freedom to pursue appropriate
educational goals with opportunities for
learning in the classroom and on the grounds
provided by the institution.

3. To participate with equal status in the
formulation of purposes and polices of an
all-university nature.

4. To present speakers of their choice on the
grounds.

5. To use on grounds facilities for
University-related purposes. The institutional
control of on grounds facilities shall not be
used as a device of censorship.

6. To establish and operate communications
media free of any censorship.

7. To engage in peaceful protest.

8. To be subject to the special authority of
the University only where the University's
interests as an academic community are
involved.

9. To form groups which may formulate
rules for their internal operation provided these
rules are consistent with General
Accountability standards of conduct.

10. To be free from harassment and/or
surveillance designed to harass.

11. To privacy of personal records and files.

12. To access to their own records and files,
subject only to reasonable regulations as to
time, place, and supervision.

13. To be secure in their persons, living
quarters, papers, and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures.

14. To have a specific written statement of
the major educational and administrative
policies of the University which affect them
and to have access to all other statements of
policy.

15. To the fullest extent of due process in
all hearing proceedings.