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Review Power

This reform in review of committee
decisions is tempered by another clause of the
constitution which states that the Dean of
Student Affairs has the power of special review
to change the decisions of the committee if he
feels it is in the best interest of the University.

Even with this clause, however, the constitution
is different from the previous constitution
where the Dean of Student Affairs could
set the penalty to be imposed in any case.

Another change in the constitution is in
membership. In the old constitution, only men
could sit on the Judiciary Committee. The new
constitution, however, allows women to run
and serve on the committee.

It also raises the number of members on the
committee to nineteen with two more members
coming from the college, one more from the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and one
coming from the Nursing School.

Any impeachment charges under thy new
constitution will be guaranteed to be heard in
"a fair trial" which entails the new ruling
concerning the regulation of student discipline
hearings.

Ralph Feil, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, in commenting on the proposed
constitution stated that the "Old Constitution,
considering the number of women here at the
University now and the number coming soon, is
inadequate because it excludes them from the
University judicial process."