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r Commission on Campus Disruptions and effective hearing and determination. This power shall include the power to exclude any person from the hearing for interference with the hearing. with witnesses during the hearing. Editor's note: Following is the complete and final text establishing a Temporary Hearing Commission on Campus Disruption. Approved by the University Council of the State University of Buffalo on Mar. 1, 1970 and headed by Dr. Robert L. Ketter, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, the temporary commission will adjudicate the cases of the 20 students who were suspended Thursday. The Commission will remain in existence until the creation of a University-wide judicial system is established. Section V. Failure to Appear In the event that the alleged offender shall fail to appear Or to present a reasonable excuse therefor, the Hearing Board may recommend to the President that, subject to applicable laws, rules and regulations, he temporarily suspend the alleged offender from all rights and privileges as a member of the faculty, student body, or staff of the University, or as a visitor. Section IV. Hearings Upon a showing to the Chairman of probable cause contained in a complaint filed by the University Advocate (who may act upon the request of any person complaining of an act of physical disruption) or by the President, or by any Vice President or Provost of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Chairman shall proceed to initiate a hearing. The Chairman shall assign a legal officer to preside at the hearing and shall appoint from among the Hearing Officers a Hearing Board of at least three members to conduct the hearing of the case. The officer who has applied for initiation of a hearing shall have no further part in the proceeding other than as a witness. In appointment of a Hearing Board, the Chairman shall give consideration to representation on the Board of Faculty, students and staff in view of the parties to and circumstances of the particular case. The Legal Officer shall preside over the hearing, make rulings as to procedure and evidence and render advice to the Hearing Board, but he shall not vote as to findings and recommendations. Subject to the procedural safeguards provided herein, the hearing shall be conducted . informally. The Hearing Board may summon witnesses, and the members of the Board may ask questions of witnesses, and may discuss the evidence among themselves and Section VI. Procedural Safeguards Temporary Hearing Commission on Campus Disruption The Chairman shall cause written notice of the charges and of the time and place of the hearing to be delivered to the alleged offender and to the person who applied to the Chairman to initiate a hearing. He shall be served with notice by certified mail, return receipt requested. The alleged offender shall be afforded reasonable time to prepare for the hearing. The alleged offender shall be entitled to be present throughout the hearing, and in accordance with the procedures established by the Board, to present evidence and arguments, and question witnesses in the hearing. The alleged offender shall have the privilege to be represented by counsel. Section I. Creation; Composition There is hereby created by the Council of the State University ot New York at Buffalo a Temporary Hearing Commission. The Commission shall consist of 13 members: a chairman and 13 hearing officers. The Commission shall be served by a panel of legal officers. Hearing boards drawn from the Commission shall conduct hearings of physical disruption cases as herein provided. The Commission shall be fully constituted and authorized to act as soon as its membership has been appointed. The Commission shall continue in existence until it has been superseded by the creation of a University-wide judicial system or abolished by order pf the Council of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Robert L. Kattar was named chairmen of the Temporary Hearing Commission of Campus Disruption which will adjudicate the cases of the 20 students suspended last week. The student suspensions were the first ones ever handed out on any State University campus. Chairman A hearing may be open to the public or closed, as determined by the Hearing Board in consolation with the Chairman of the Commission, provided that the alleged offender shall be entitled as of right, upon request, to a closed hearing. in any closed hearing, if the alleged offender so -continued on page 8- Section II. Appointment of Commission Members and Legal Officers physical disruption is an act which violates any law, or any rule or regulation applicable to the campus or any facilities owned or operated by the State University of New York at Buffalo, and includes (1) assault; (2) battery; (3) threat of injury to person or property; (4) willful destruction of property; or (5) trespass into a classroom, office or any other place in which any authorized activity of the State University of New York at Buffalo or of any of its faculty, students or staff is carried on, with the effect or the intent of causing interference with such activity. The jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend fo faculty, students and staff of the State University of New York at Buffalo and to others whose activities violate any of the provisions herein. Hearing Boards shall have the power, subject to the procedural safeguards established herein, to regulate the conduct of hearings in the interests of a just, speedy The chairman of the Commission shall be appointed by the Council of the State University of New York at Buffalo upon recommendation of the President. Upon the mutual recommendation of the President and the Chairman of the Commission, the Council shall appoint the remaining members of the Commission from among the faculty, students and staff of the University. The President and Chairman shall appoint a panel of five legal officers from the Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence. Appointments of the Chairman, Hearing Officers and Legal Officers shall be for a term commencing immediately and continuing until the Commission shall have been superseded or abolished, but no later than June 30, 1971. Junior Year in New York Three undergraduate colleges offer students from all parts of the country an opportunity to broaden their educational experience by spending their Complaint commission Ten members of the Temporary Hearing Commission on Campus Disruption have been named. Besides Chairman Robert L. Ketter, the other members of the Commssion chosen thus far are Edward G. Dudek, president. State University of Buffalo Civil Service Employees Association; Richard H. Cox, Faculty of Social Sciences and Administration; Andrew W. Holt, assistant dean, Graduate School; George H. Nancollas, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics; Edward L. Wallace, Faculty of Social Sciences and Administration; John Sirjamaki, Faculty of Social Science and Administration; Richard A. 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Courses may be taken in the School of Commerce School of Education Washington Square College of Arts Chairman Ketter stressed that his committee’s work will be “absolutely divorced from the Administration” and will “only act on documents presented to us in a formal complaint.” The jurisdiction of the Commission shall be limited to cases based upon charges of physical disruption. An act of ER Sponsors fUl rkctawM I %ili jMtviaf Mnl illnn MUCH IS, 14, IS EXPANSION OF WARENESS & CHOICE MrWwtary bw rtkliMs group MARCH 14-21 ’35 o person — *50 a couple 8S4-623I PLAZA SHOE REPM and Science New York University also sponsors Junior Year in France (Paris) Junior Year in Spain (Madrid) ONE STOP SERVICE CENTER $h**t Rtpalnd Whll*-U-Wait Laundry & Drycleaning ONE DAY SERVICE University Plaza Write for brochure to Director, junior Year in New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, N.Y 10003 Page four The Spectrum Monday, March 9, 1970