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RIGHTS
OF OTHERS BASED ON THE NATURE OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
All members of the University community have responsibilities
and rights based upon the nature of the educational process
and the requirements of the search for truth and its free
presentation. These rights and responsibilities include:
- Obligation
to respect the freedom to teach, to learn, and to conduct
research and publish findings in the spirit of free inquiry.
Institutional censorship and individual or group intol-
erance of the opinions of others are inconsistent with
this freedom;
- Obligation
not to interfere with the freedom of members of the University
to pursue normal academic and administrative activities;
- Obligation
not to infringe upon the right of all members of the campus
to privacy in offices, laboratories, and residence hall
rooms, and in the keeping of personal papers, confidential
records, and effects, subject only to the general law
and University regulations;
- Obligation
not to interfere with the right to hear and study unpopular
and controversial views on intellectual and public issues;
- Right
to identify oneself as a member of the University com-
munity and a concurrent obligation not to speak or act
on behalf of the institution without authorization;
- Right
to recourse if another member of the University com- munity
is negligent or irresponsible in performance of his/her
responsibilities, or if another member of the campus represents
the work of others as his/her own;
- Right
to be heard and considered at appropriate levels of the
decision-making process about basic policy matters of
direct concern.
Members
of the University community who have a continuing association
with the institution have an especially strong obligation
to maintain an environment conducive to respect for the
rights of others and fulfillment of academic responsibilities.
The Administration has a particular responsibility to protect
the integrity of the academic process from external and
internal attacks and to prevent the political or financial
exploitation of the University by any individual or group.
RIGHTS
OF THE INSTITUTION
The institution, and any division or agency that exercises
direct or delegated authority for the institution, has rights
and responsibilities of its own. The rights and responsibilities
of the institution include:
- Right
and obligation to provide an open forum for members of
the University community to present and debate public
issues;
- Right
to prohibit individuals and groups who are not mem- bers
of the University community from using its name, its finances,
and its physical and operating facilities for com- mercial
or political activities;
- Right
to prohibit members of the University community from using
its name, its finances, or its physical and operating
faci- lities for commercial activities;
- Right
and obligation to provide, for members of the University
community, the use of meeting rooms under the rules of
the University, including use for political purposes such
as meet- ings of political clubs; to prohibit use of its
rooms by individual members or groups of members on a
regular or prolonged basis as free headquarters for political
campaigns; and to prohibit use of its name, its finances,
and its office equipment and supplies for any partisan
political purpose at any time;
- Right
to require that persons on University property identify
themselves by name and address, and state what connec
- tion, if any, they have with the University;
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Right to set reasonable standards of conduct in order
to safeguard the educational process and to provide for
the safety of members of the University community and
the insti- tution's property.
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