Legislation targets
judicial affairs reform Authors concerned with lack of due process
on campus
David Forbes SGA Beat
Jacque Lenz | The Appalachian
Legislation sponsors Paul A. Funderburk,
Ian A. Mance and H.
Dustin Bayard take questions from SGA senators Tuesday evening.
The Student Government
Association passed a bill Tuesday evening aimed at altering the
rights of students brought before a judicial board at Appalachian
State University.
The bill, which passed by a large majority, seeks to change the
amount of evidence required to convict, to allow a student’s
representative to speak on their behalf and to require the board
be unanimous in its decision.
“We wrote this bill because we’re concerned
with the lack of due process in Judicial Affairs right now,”
off-campus senator Ian A. Mance, one of the authors of the bill,
said. “Depending on what you’re going to Judicial Affairs
for, you could end up getting kicked out of school. If there’s
so much on the line, I think we should make them prove their case.”
Robbins said Students in Whitener
Hall should see no immediate effects of class quality due parking
lot construction in April.
By the summer of
2005, the academic departments now housed in Whitener Hall will
be relocated to a renovated Belk Library, and the existing building
will be demolished. Completion of the new Library & Information
Commons is scheduled for December 2004.
“When it is complete, we will then move [Belk]
Library into the new library and go through a construction evolution
to renovate Belk Library to fit the occupants of Whitener,”
Director for Design and Construction Dr. Clyde D. Robbins said Monday.
Appalachian
State University may be “dipping into student fee reserves”
to cover additional costs incurred by the colder winter, Vice Chancellor
for Business Affairs Jane P. Helm said Tuesday.
Helm said utilities, such as the natural gas used
at the steam plant, have gone up in cost and necessity this winter.
The Appalachian
State University Police Department has been inundated with reports
of larceny since the beginning of the semester; however, there were
several incidents last week the department is actively investigating.
