academic pcirforimance established by their professors, but
they should have protection through orderly procedurec
against prejudicedt or capricious academic evaluation.
  C. Protection Against Improper Disclosure. Ilnfornatiozl
about student views, beliefs, and political associations
which professors acquire in the course of their work as
instructors, advisers, and counselors should be considered
confidential. Protection against imlsroper disclosurc is a
serious professional obligation. Judgmncts of ability and
character may be provided under appropriate circum.
stances.

                 IL. Student Records
  Institutions should have a carefully considered policy
as to the information which should be part of a students
permanent educational record and as to the conditions
of its disclosure. To minimize the risk of improper dis.
closure, academic and disciplinary records should be sep-
arate, and the conditions of access to each should be set
forth in an explicit policy statencant. Transcripts of aca-
demic records should contain   only information about
academic status. Data from disciplinary and counseling
files should not be available to unauthorized persons on
campus or to any person off campus except for the most
compelling reasons. No records should be kept which rc-
fiect the political activities or beliefs of students. Provision
should also bh made for periodic routine destruction of
noncurrent disciplinary records. Administrative staff and
student personnel officers should respect confidential in-
formation about students which they acquire in the course
of their work.

                 III. Student Affairs
  In stsident affairs, certain standards nmust be main-
tained if the academic freediom of students is to be pre-
served.
  A. Freedom   front Arbitirary  Discriminat ion. Colleges
and universities should be open to all students who are
academically qualified. W hile sectarian institutions may
give admission preference to students of their own per-
suasion, such a prccrencc should be clearly and publicly
stated. College facilities and services should be open to
all students, and institutions should use their influence
to secure equal access for all students to public facilities
in the local community.
  B. Freedom of Association. Students bring to the cam-
pus a variety of interests previously acquired and develop
many new   interests as members of the academic coned
munity. They should be free to organize and join as-
sociations to promote their common interests.
    1. Alfiliation vwith an extramural organization should
not of itself affect recognition of a student organization.
    2. Each organization should be free to choose its
own campus adviser, and institutional recognition should
not be withheld or withdrawn solely because of the in-
ability of a student organization to secure an adviser.
Members of the faculty serve the college community when
they accept the responsibility to advise and consult with
student organizations; they should not have the authority
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    5. Student organizations may be required to submit
a current list of officers, but they should not be required
to submit a membership list as a condition of institutional
recognition.
    4. Campus organizations should be open to all
students without respect to race, rcligion. creed, or na.
tional orgin, except for religious qualifications which
may be required by sectarian organizations.
    5. Students and student organizations should be fret
to examine and to discuss all questions of interest to
them, and to express opinions publicly or privately. They
should also be free to support causes by any orderly meant
which do not disrupt the regular and essential operation
of the institution.
    6. Students should be allowed to invite and to hear
any person of their own choosing. While the orderly
scheduling of facilities may require the observance of
routine procedures before a guest speaker is invited to
appear on campus, institutional control of campus fi.
cilitics should never be used as a device of censorship.
It should be made clear to the academic and larger corm.
munity that sponsorship of guest speakers does not neces-
sarily imply approval or endorsement of the views ex.
pressed, either by the sponsoring group or the institution.
  C. Student Participation in Institutional Government.
As constituents of the academic community, students
should be free, individually and collectively, to express
their views on issues of institutional policy and on mat-
ters of general interest to the student body. The student
body should have clearly defined means to participate
in the formulation and application of regulations affect.
ing student affairs. Student governments should be pro.
tected from arbitrary intcrvention.
  D. Student Publications. Student publications and the
student press are a valuable aid in establishing and main-
taining an atmosphere of free and responsible discussion
and of intellectual exploration on the campus; They are
a means of bringing student concerns to the attention of
the faculty and the institutional authorities and of for.
mulating student opinion on various issues on the campus
and in the world at large.
     1. The student press should be free of censorship
and advance approval of copy, and its editors and man-
agers should be free to develop their own editorial poli.
cies and news coverage.
    2. The integrity and responsibility of student pub-
lications should be encouraged by arran7gements which
permit financial autonomy or, ideally, complete financial
independence.
    3. Editors and managers should subscribe to canons
of responsible journalism. At the same time, they should
be protected from arbitrary suspension and removal be.
cause of student, faculty, administrative, or public dis-
approval of editorial policy or content. Only for proper
and stated causes should editors and managers be subject
to removal and then by orderly and prescribed pro-
cedures.
       IV. Off-Campus Freedom of Students
   A. Exercise pf Rights of Citizenship. As citizens, stu-
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