Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ostrow's trial--despite his acquittal--was unfair. He and four other students are being tried in connection with three demonstrations last Spring under a disciplinary code which defies every reasonable conception of due process...
...Ostrow's case, B.U. was trying a student retroactively under B.U.'s new Provisional Student Disciplinary Code passed last April 20. Under that code, Ostrow had no power to subpoena witnesses. His prosecutor, judge and jury were all appointed, directly or indirectly, by B.U. President John R. Silber. Had Ostrow been found guilty, he could have appealed only to Silber...
Students for Action, an ad hoc coalition at B.U., is protesting the code, on-campus recruiting, and the remaining trials. The College of Liberal Arts faculty has already voted for the abolition of the code. People interested in helping Students for Action should contact Alan Morosky or Deborah Helsberg at the B.U. Student Union...
Students do not waive their civil rights when they pay tuition to a college. Student and Faculty letters to Silber from other schools, letters of protest or even of inquiry, will help protect these students' rights until the code is toppled...
...constitution the junta members have in mind is similar to the one introduced by the military dictators of Brazil. It vests vast power in a President, who in recent years has been appointed by the general staff rather than elected. When "national security" is in danger, the Brazilian code allows for suspension of such democratic rights as arrest warrants and habeas corpus and provides for censorship and trial by military courts...