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...Board for reasons of confidentiality and consistency, we do believe that students should be more involved in the disciplinary process. We propose two changes to accomplish this end: publishing reports of all the Ad Board's cases each year without naming names and making the Student-Faculty Judicial Board (SFJB) a more viable option for students facing the Ad Board...
...also urge major changes in the use of the SFJB, a group established by the Faculty in 1987 to hear cases in which there is "no clear precedent or consensus in the community." The board should become not simply a court of choice for cases that have no precedent, but a true option for students who would like the openness of a board on which their peers sit. Instead of having the Ad Board members and the SFJB decide whether a case can go to the SFJB, the student should be guaranteed a hearing if he or she asks...
...November 7, the Crimson independently published a news analysis by Jal D. Mehta '99 titled "Disciplinary Decisions Lack Student Participation." This article analyzed the neglected Student-Faculty Judicial Board (SFJB), a disciplinary committee composed of faculty and student members. According to Mehta's article, the SFJB was established in 1987 in response to demands from the Undergraduate Council. The numbers show the SFJB has failed its goal miserably: The User's Guide to the Ad Board notes that only one case has been decided by the Student-Faculty Board in its nine years of existence...
Lewis says he thinks there have been a relatively small number of cases where students have considered using the SFJB...
...main reason provided by senior tutors for the lack of usage of the SFJB is the simple lack of precedent-setting cases...