WHEREAS pursuant to Article 3, Section 3.1 of its charter the University Assembly (the Assembly) may propose changes to the Campus Code of Conduct (the Code) subject to the University President’s approval; and

WHEREAS members of the Cornell University community have indicated they would like more information about misconduct by all university registered organizations, not just Greek-letter houses, and the University is creating a website(s) for sharing this information; therefore, be it

RESOLVED the following changes be made to the Code:

On p. 33 of the Code, change Title Three, Article III.G.4.a as follows:

a. All who are involved in the complaint, investigation, hearing, appeal, and reporting processes are obliged to maintain confidentiality of the proceedings, except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code. They shall protect the confidentiality of all judicial records, except those records specifically referred to in Article II.B and except those of university registered organizations. Copies of judicial records shall not be released to outside sources without written consent of the subject of such record, except as may be required by law and except that the records of university registered organizations may be shared as deemed necessary to educate the community or to provide information to the community about the organization’s conduct.

RESOLVED on adoption by the Assembly this resolution be conveyed to President Skorton for his consideration and approval.

Respectfully submitted,
Gregory Mezey
Chair, Codes and Judicial Committee
UA Member