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Committee Considers Policy Change
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the counselor is told to take in I
the event of misconduct is to i
warn that student. He said, “vio- |
lation of quiet hours composes j
about 95 per cent of these actions
of misconduct.”
“Really," Williams said, “in the
case of quiet hour violations, the
counselor is encouraged to tell
the student who has made the
complaint to go and warn the
violator himself.
“If that doesn’t work and the j
violator is still making noise, then
the counselor should warn the j
student that it is a violation of
quiet hours,” Williams said.
If. after warning the violator,
the noise still persists, the coun
selor is “very likely to campus
that student for one of the week
end nights as a sanction,” he ■
said.
Williams told the Committee
that under the spirit of the Con
duct Code, “counselors are en
couraged to have the students
accept the responsibility for this
kind of misconduct. ... If after |
exhausting this situation and the |
violation is not corrected, then
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almost by default the counselor
has to take the action.”
Another point discussed was
that the counselors are encour
aged to do any sanctioning inside
the student's own room, and not
before the rest of the students.
Right to Appeal
Williams said in the case that
a dormitory resident is unjustly
campused, "which is very much
an exception to the rule,” then
the student, by reading the Code,
knows he has a right to appeal
to the minor court if he wishes
He said, "any time a student
feels his counselor has really
done him in, then oi course the
counselor is told to refer that
student to his supervisor, to the
head resident, or possibly to me."
Nickerson also asked Williams
if it had ever happened that a
counselor had used "mass punish
ment ... if nobody tells who did
this the whole place is cam
pused?”
“Not to my knowledge,” Wil
liams said. "In the particular case t
at Henderson there were sixteen
men sitting in the hall after quiet
hours and they were very noisy.
The counselor told me at the time
he was prepared to let them sit
there as long as they wanted,
until the girls from Caswell, the
adjacent dormitory, called and j
said it was so noisy coming
through the end of the hallway
that they couldn't study.”
Williams said at mat point the j
counselor went out and told them j
to go back to their rooms, "and
apparently they didn’t budge, and
he said he wanted them to know
that he wasn’t above campusing
all sixteen of them for violation
of quiet hours.”
“This, then,” Williams said,
“was interpreted by the students
to be coercion of a group campus.
But under the circumstances l
believe he would have been jus
tified in campusing all of them.”
Williams agreed with members
of the Committee that any at
tempt to punish a whole group
just to find one or two guilty par
ties would be "an error of judg
ment.” He said he was sure this
point was brought out during
orientation week. Williams said
the thing that disturbed him was
that the counselor has to "play
as great a role as disciplinarian
that he does.”
In reply to questions, Williams
said he felt that none of the
counselors would show any hesi
tancy to sanction on the spot, or
to take a case to minor courts if
necessary.
Wendell Basye, professor of
law and chairman of the Commit
tco questioned Williams about |
the recent agitation and a letter
he hail received from the Inter
Dorm Council to allow dormitory
units to establish their own judi
cial bodies to enforce housekoep
inn rules rather than the pres
ent methods of sanctioning by the
counselor or through the minor
court system.
Matter Clarified
Williams said, “It wasn't be
cause they feel the counselors are
doing an inadequate job. 1 think
they feel that in the full spirit'
of the Code that this would be
the ideal . . . that they would sit
in judgment of themselves."
Dean Nickerson said he felt
that much of the confusion about
this matter had been clarified at
a dinner meeting of the hall pres
idents last Wednesday.
"Some of the students didn't
seem to understand the recent
changes in the Code. . . They
thought they were compelled by
the Code to adopt housekeeping
rules, and they weren’t sure they
wanted to do this," Nickerson
said.
"But when they understood, at
the dinner,” he said, "that this
was a permissive thing and that
they could do as they please about
it, i think this took the heat out
of it.”
Carl asked the director of dor
mitory personnel If he thought
establishing judicial authority in
individual dormitory units would
he feasible.
Williams said lie was in favor
of any type of system they could
come up with that would allow a
counselor to be more of a coun
selor and less of a disciplinarian.
"Yet,” he said, "part of the
problem you would run into in a
dormitory situation, which is non
selective living, i that majority
rule sometimes doesn’t sit well
with a minority because fresh
men must live in dormitories.
Ilasye said there was "nothing
in the Code which prevents dor
mitory units from getting to
gether and deciding to put out
any rules they want as long as
they don't also go through the
process of trying to sanction
them." Basye said due to the
situation that this was a required
living experience during the first
year, there "has to he some cen
tral authority."
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