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Group to discuss of student judicia By CATHERINE THRIFT Gamecock Staff Writer "4 An ad hoc committee made up of students and m chaired by Assistant Dean for Campus Relations Marsha Duncan,'will meet today to discuss plans for an reorganization of the present student judicial system. ha The group, which met for the first time last pc Thursday, will write a recommendation concerning the problems of the system, that will be presented to sy the Student Affairs Committee. "Their (the group's) intent is to go to groups with a dil leve of expertise in the matter and solicite their ca input," Duncan said. But so far we haven't even put together a letter to send out, since we've only met once." ' of THE COMMITTEE was set up to deal with the sa vagueness and inconsistence of the present system, tal she said. sy "The problem, from my perspective, is there are too many policies," said Duncan. "There are too kii many contradictions. It's like a lot of people wrote of out their own system and the result - an inconsistent judicial system." The new recommendation is expected to be a step c toward establishing a system that the average s student can understand and that will provide a o consistent way of handling cases. a Physical exams no longer requir4 for admission By ALRIC MIXSON Gamecock Staff Writer Physical examinations are no longer required for Uc according to the University's student catalogue. Elizabeth Wills, Assistant Admissions Director said th, physical had never been a requirement for admission. "I that a student turn in a physical but not decisive as to wt accepted or not," she said. SOME STUDENTS are not accepted until two or thre registration and it may be impossible for them to get thei she added. Wills said there was so much paper work involved that t office could not take care of it. "If it gets to where man: not turning in physicals we will have to enforce the rul said. James B. Campbell, vice-president for Student Affairs, not mean to belittle the physical, but admission to the Uj an academic basis." Before a student is treated at the he must fill out a physical, Campbell added. "If we try to enforce the rule students would claim tho hassled by the administration," he said. CAMPBELL ALSO said that the rule would be too hai pensive to enforce. Students feel it is a hassle because th go to the health center, he added. Many students are not turning physicals in to the S Service. Student Health Services Director Isao Hirata sai per cent of the students have not turned in physicals. Hi some of the physicals that are turned *- are not completely "If a physical was filled out completely it would be inva caring for the student," he said. Hirata said students do not get physicals because it is t "No one wants to pay up to 425 for a physical which he r while at the University," he said. AS AN alternative to the present physical, Hirata f, computer service to check physicals. A student woul computer agency. A form would then be sent to the stud< out. This form would contain a large number of questions, would be contradictory and could be used to double chec answers. "This would be cheaper and we would know n student," Hirata said. Hirata said health services had no way to make a stu physical. If a physical is not turned in before registratior written a letter and urged to come by the health center al HIR ATA SA ID he favored a mandatory rule that studen a physical. "This would not have to be done within a reas< of time." If a student is accepted early, the physical should be i Students accepted later should turn their physicals in d semester here, Hirata added. If a tudent did not fill out a physical before the si semester he should not be allowed to register, he said. reorganization try system What we have right now is a mess," Duncan said. re all agreed on that. And the situation gives me re discretion that I should have. IN OTHER words, you come to me with a case, I I have to more or less decide how it should be idled. Any way it's handled, there would be some icy I could point to to justify it. 'he committee believes that having an organized tem written out would eliminate such situations. )uncan stated that the present system is so organized that there is no clear indication whict, es it can handle. Technically, anytime a student violates the code :onduct, he is subject to disciplinary action," she 1. "But who decides what action, if any, should be en, how and when, is not clear." 'HE RECORD-KEEPING process of the present tem also needs to be revised, Duncan said. The student involved in a case needs to know what d of records are being kept and should be informed heir confidentiality," she said. "This is not a type of issue the whole student body n get upset over like the Green Street issue," she id. 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