Council to discuss judicial plan

The Student Judiciary Committee will present its recommendations for a new University judicial system at today's University Council meeting. The preliminary draft of the Student Judicial Charter advocates sweeping changes in the current University judicial system, allowing for much more student involvement. Under the proposed system, a 17-member Student Judicial Council will be formed to "provide personnel for hearings, advising, and student presenting." They will participate in the settlement of serious cases, which the Committee terms "Major Level" incidents. Also to be presented along with the new judicial structure are drafts of a new Code of Student Conduct and Code of Academic Integrity. The University Council is also slated hear a discussion of the final report of the Commission on Strengthening the Community, which was published in this week's Almanac. The report contains two major changes from the preliminary draft discussed by the University Council at previous meetings. It now recommends spring freshman year rush for fraternities and sororities, rather than the original sophomore rush plan which was proposed in the preliminary report. The final report clarifies the Commission's assigned housing plan as well. The new plan advocates that freshmen be allowed to select living-learning programs and college houses as choices for rooming assignments. And it proposes that a committee be formed to design a housing plan to be implemented on a trial basis in the fall of 1996. The Library Committee will present a brief report to University Council, discussing its priorities and goals for the University's library system. Also giving their usual reports will be Interim President Claire Fagin and Interim Provost Marvin Lazerson. The University Council meeting begins at 4 p.m. in the Quadrangle's McClelland Lounge. It is open to the public.