University of Chicago Disciplinary Actions: 1997-98 The Office of the Dean of Students in the University has been asked by the Council of the University Senate to report each year on matters pertaining to the University disciplinary legislation enacted by the council on May 23, 1970, and amended on June 8, 1976. I am happy to report that no University disciplinary committee was required to meet during the 1997–98 academic year. The Office of the Dean of Students also reports to the council on disciplinary matters that have occurred in the various academic units during the year. In 1997–98, area disciplinary committees were convened on five occasions to act on questions involving seven students. The Committee on College Discipline was convened two times: A student was judged to have committed physical abuse against another student in an altercation on a neighborhood street. The committee placed the student on probation and required that the student perform thirty hours of community service and seek counseling for alcohol abuse. In a second meeting the committee considered requests for review from three students who had been ordered to leave the residence halls by the Director of the University House System following a series of incidents that involved intimidation and harassment of other residents, playing with fire, and use of illegal drugs. The committee sustained the decision to remove two of the students, but decided there were mitigating circumstances with the third and permitted that student to remain in the residence halls on probation. Disciplinary committees in the professional schools and graduate divisions met on three occasions: In the Biological Sciences, a student was found to have videotaped another student without that student’s knowledge or permission. The committee placed the student on probation for nine quarters. A committee in the Physical Sciences concluded that a student had deliberately interfered with an experimental apparatus without the knowledge or permission of the researcher in charge. The student was suspended for four quarters. In the Graham School of General Studies a committee expelled a student who had tampered with University library books for the purpose of theft. The chart below shows the numbers of students sent before area disciplinary committees for the past ten academic years.
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