"This is
an
institution that Ignores the constitution!" impassioned and very busy month for the URI Student Rights Coalition. They organized and led a series of protests regarding the administration's recent changes to the university's judicial policies. The changes included giving the new "conduct board" jurisdiction over students who lived off-campus, new policies regarding October
dorm
room
was an
searches that allowed
an
RA to search
a room
without the consent of
appeals process that would allow the likely than not" they were guilty (which punish President Carothers later vetoed). On October 10th, nearly 100 students marched to Green Hall chanting and waving protest signs. President Carothers was present to view the students' disgust at the changes to the Student Handbook. At 2:30 p.m. on October 18th, students gathered on the Quad in formal dress and placed gags over their mouths to symbolized that they had been silenced by the Faculty Senate. They filed quietly into the auditorium where the monthly Senate meeting was being held, filling almost half of the gallery. Through the entire meeting they stood silently. Though they did not say a word, their presence made a strong statement on behalf of the student body. the student who lived there, and conduct board to
a
changes
student if it
in the
was
"more
"I'll quote
Benjamin
Franklin
ThOSe
who would
sacrifice for
liberty
security
deserve neither!" -
100 Fall
Morgan Grant