NEWS Meeting outlined concerns, plans for upcoming year by Kayla Eanes | Feb 25 2015 | 13 hours ago

Student Council met in the Law School Tuesday to hear from a representative from the Student Bar Association, as well as members of University Information Technology Services.

Morgan Lingar, incoming SBA president and Law School representative, gave Council an overview of the organizations current concerns and plans for the upcoming year.

I really would like to focus on student self governance in terms of how it applies to a lot of ways over the past year weve seen administrators working unilaterally without consulting law students, Lingar said.

Lingar said there have been issues with administrative control of the Keg, a weekly social event at the Law School.

When we had to get reapproved for this semester, Lingar said. We were told that we were going to have to move it to Fridays with the knowledge that next year there would be no weekly events holding alcohol at all at the Law School.

Lingar said Law School students were frustrated with the reasons for cancelling these events, cited as safety concerns about sexual assault.

A lot of people, myself included, are very concerned that that is our way of addressing sexual assault, Lingar said. Were very frustrated our voices arent heard.

Lingar said when she asked more specifically about reported sexual assaults or any research which might show a higher number of reports on Thursdays due to the association with Law School events, she was told there have been reported assaults, but administrators have not kept specific data or records.

What weve been hearing from the administrators that it is within the philosophy for the administration to make changes without consulting students, Lingar said. For a school that values self-governance, that attitude to me is very disturbing.

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