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Editorial: Title 5 Not all high fives

Student conduct educators Heather Dunn Carlton and Jessica Heskin waited patiently at 6:50 p.m. on Monday in the Redwood Room of the University Union. They were to give a presentation and hold a question and answer session about the recently revised Title V and Executive Order 628, otherwise known as the Student Conduct Code.

The objective of the forum was to ensure that no “impression of Sacramento State students, groups and athletes of being less than standard would get to the community.”

They explained that the main changes were due to modern technology in the university, increased concern over hazing, and off-campus conduct.

Carlton explained that with the majority of students having cell phones, the pressure to text answers during an exam or quiz increases.

Heskin also warned the students of the content that they place online. If students identify themselves as Sacramento State students and write a statement, or place a photograph, that contains lewd behavior and are caught by an administrator, they can be reported to Student Affairs.

Possible punishment for disobeying the Student Conduct Code range from a warning to probation, suspension or expulsion. However, each report is handled on a case-by-case situation.

Leonard Valdez, the student conduct officer, was also present at the meeting. He warned the students against missing appointments with him. He said that if he would to meet a student about one charge and the student misses the appointment, the student would have an extra charge of “case obstruction.”

Another change to the code was about hazing. An example that the educators gave was if a Sac State group were to haze a student, the witnesses, hazers and the person being hazed could be subject to possible punishment by Student Affairs ?” who also stated that they have the right to define hazing.

Some students did find the forum somewhat repetitive.

“Everything they said was common sense,” said Rose Burke, a freshman statistics major. “Everyone knows right from wrong.”

Jamie Gonzales can be reached at [email protected]