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      Subsequent to these hearings, the committee invited several

 students and faculty to meet with it to discuss its preliminary

 conclusions and recommendations. Among the students who accepted

 the committee's invitation wece the President of Student Government,

 the president of the Student Coalition to Prevent Campus Violence,

 the chairman of the graduate division of the Judicial Board, and

 t'he editor of The Kentucky Kernel.

     Many of the recommendations in this report were advocated by

students, faculty, or staff during meetings with the committee.

     There was, to illustrates almost unanimous agreement among the

persons testifying that a Hearing Officer is needed to assist in the

University's judicial processes, that search and seizure provisions

should be redefined, and that the Dean of Students should not be cast

in the role of prosecutor. TZe committee does not imply, however,

that all suggestions which came to it have been incorporated into its

recommendation. Nonetheless, the committee affirms that each of these

suggestions was given careful consideration.

     The committee's recommendations are being presented to you in

the form of a revised Code of Student Conduct. The committee does

not regard this revised document as a set of inviolate polici es and

procedures. In presenting it to you, the committee acknowledges

that the sense of urgency in ccmpleting its assignment before the

beginning of the fall semester prevented refinement which, indeed,

would have been desirable. It recognizes, however, that the Board

has never considered the Code as unalterable and has established a

Student Code Committee to receive and consider recommendations for

changes in its provisions.