Brown and White Vol. 78 no. 44

              brown and white d 78 - no 44 bethlehem pa - friday april 21 1967 8660331 new due process rules discussed by fromers it should be recognized that a device would have tobe used . . . if a case was so severe that it injured the best interests of the university said assistant dean of student life william quay the device to which quay referred is found in the double jeopardy sections of the com mittee on discipline's recently released report on due process section 2.9 states that " univer sity discipline hearings will con stitute double jeopardy where a student has been tried for the same offense in a state or feder al proceeding the section also says "... where the institution's interests as an academic community are clearly involved the special authority of the institution may properly be asserted this sentence quay says would provide the university with a reason for action if a student were convicted i n a civil court of a major felony when asked if these two sec tions on double jeopardy might be in conflict preston parr dean of student life stated that there are times when a student's be havior is of interest to both juris dictions community and uni versity in different ways he added that the university would see discipline page 10 b&w photo by mccaffery several members of the committee on discipline discuss the final draft of disciplin ary procedures and principles of due process the committee presented its final product tuesday afternoon seated left to right are r c gower prof j a maurer jim smith prof a j diefenderfer and dean of student life preston parr aaup panel suggests living group reforms by robert j weintraub anachronistic regressive antl intellectual exclusive were terms aired at wednesday's american association of university professors discussion which emphasized needed reforms in the living groups at lehlgh seven panelists representing students faculty and administration spoke on the problems of living groups before an audience not much larger than the panel prof francis wuest chairman of the student life committee considers student housing inseparably bound to the educational process " lehlgh has created an academic suburbia in sayre park he said the lower campus serves as a place of business for the students when they depart tor their residences after class students seem to leave the educational aspect of the university behind he said wuest claims that new residences are not compatible with the educational purposes of the university lack of seminar rooms and other faculty associated facilities made the new residences sleeping quarters not part of the academic community he said to provide an educational focus on the upper campus wuest recommended possible faculty housing there a faculty club meeting rooms or possibly a university center annex presently an effort is necessary to rejoin the university once the student leaves the lower campus he said clarence campbell dean of residence considers " student rejec tion loneliness and dissatisfaction the greatest problem at the uni committee sets discipline rules the committee on discipline has presented to the university the final draft of disciplinary procedures and principles of due process at a meeting tuesday the committee distributed copies of the procedures and discussed certain aspects of the due process section these final regulations will appear in next year's student handbook of special interest are the principles of due process which state that in every case the student charged with an offense shall have due notice of the charges and the pendency of proceedings shall be afforded a fair and impartial hearing before a duly constituted tribunal with all determinations made on the basis of pertinent evidence properly presented shall be afforded an opportunity to appeal the decision to the university committee on discipline and ultimately to the faculty of the university shall be protected by a statute of limitations shall have received due notice of rights the sections detailing the above concepts on due process section 2.7 dealing with evidence obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure and sections 2.8 and 2.9 on double jeopardy have previously been the subject of much speculation section 2.7 states students are entitled to freedom from unreasonable invasions of their privacy -- regarding both their person and property evidence obtained by an unreasonable invasion shall not be admissahle against them the section continues saying that only authorized university officials may search and seize " for this purpose an authorized university official does not include a student either as a principal or agent a student officer or conselor may and should recognize however that the preceding rule is not intended to interfere with his responsibility for the maintaining of good order the double jeopardy sections state that in university proceedings " a student shall not be twice tried for the same offense however in the case of public court proceedings where the institu tion's interests as an academic community are clearly involved the special authority of the institution may properly i asserted section 2.9 goes on to say university discipline hearings will constitute double jeo|»ardy where a student has been tried for the same offense in a state or federal proceeding . conduct unl>ecorning a i^high gentleman or similar rules shall not constitute a separate offense where the essential elements are the same in the university hearing as in the state or federal proceedings spaak busy in brussels by bill sklar key figure in nato talks blausteln lecturer paul henri sunk is one of the key men in a series of north atlantic treaty organization discussions which may determine the balance of world power spaak has been described as the dominant figure at the current nato conference in brussels which is considering france's relation to the organization vietnam and united states interests as well as the possible exclusion of britain from europe's common market spaak has stated that the vietnam war is weakening nato but he supported the united paul henri spaak states in appreciation of its sincere effort to block communist aggression the world politician has admitted that a prime goal of the conference is to maintain the technical and economic position of free europe to avoid decadence in a state of unarmed neutrality spaak is one of the world's most honored and outspoken advocates of european unity and demo cratic tradition he is a major architect of post-war europe born in 1899 to belgium's first female senator spaak became a lawyer and militant socialist he led street demonstrations in brussels in his early years and served in world war d.he became premier of belgium in 19s8 only to retire a year later and witness nad violation of ms country's neutrality . so strong was bis nationalistic feeling that following the occupation spaak led a movement to dethrone king leopold who had remained with the germans rather than flee to britain as spaak had urged spaak continued to serve in various cabinet positions during post-war years holdingthepostof premier twice and the offiee of foreign minister six times he was instrumental in the founding of the united nations and served as first president of its general assembly in 1957 spaak newly appointed secretary general of nato was instrumental in the creation of the common market in support of that enterprise he declared the market must lead to one europe see spaak page 10 see aaup page 8