Correction to the Correction time. It's still kinda confusing!

Yesterday's correction on "Student Groups Face Stricter Conduct Code" was unclear and problematic. The correction should have said that under the Code of Student Conduct, only individual students can currently face student conduct hearings, whereas student groups as a whole cannot face a conduct hearing.

So in the future, assuming these code revisions are made, the University could charge all of SJP and hold a hearing for every one of them at the same time. This instead of holding individual hearings.

I'm not familiar with the Code of Student Conduct.. I know Calstuff Readers are, so perhaps they could comment on this. This would certainly be a huge change. It'd also be massively controversial, and I just can't see the Academic Senate approving it. Not to mention students; just about every group who would fall under this new regulation is political. Who's in favor of allowing the Administration to hold mass 60+ person hearings when they botched a case against a single one? What does it mean to 'try a group?' That each person would receive a punishment according to what the group did? IE, 'we find the Berkeley College Republicans guilty and expel all of them?'

More likely a system like this would work like the current Fraternity regulations. Breaking the Fraternity Laws can lead to community service hours, suspension of partying privileges, and revoking University recognition as an extreme. That's controversial as it is without bringing in freedom of political expression into it.

I don't think the Daily Cal is out of the woods on this one yet. The article quotes a single unnamed source. No quotes from Academic Senate reps. Nothing from Student Judicial Affairs, or University Officials. The article doesn't even make clear what Committee is hypothetically spearheading these changes. The seemingly-collobarating (sic) quote from Mr. Falcone appears to be a miscommunication; he doesn't sound that concerned in person. Ms. Ahn was acting on the same information the Daily Cal was.

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