Show Presidents Stand Aired Editors The following is a statement by University President A. Rat position on flie question of student The in an interview with the Chronicle emphasized that there is no set University policy in such in certain the President does not these The following is an elaboration on statement to the press on the President's in such pertaining to disciplinary I was either misquoted or the reporter misunderstood what I said when I was asked why I had a recommendation of the Student Behavior Committee calling for expulsion of a football player from school as a result of cheating in an What I said was that I had not issued any disciplinary action so I could not have overruled any recommendation of the Student Behavior If and when I did take any action any recommendation of the Student Behavior it would be based on a desire to discipline and punish the guilty party but not to condemn The judgment I exercise will always be in the direction of salvaging and rehabilitating an individual without condoning the or of the In this connection I mentioned the possibility of imposing disciplinary action short of expulsion in the case of first offenders and emphasized that every case would be judged on its own merits with the hope that the guilty could be encouraged to overcome his weakness and live down the mistake Certainly I did not say that policy is not to discharge a student for a infraction of the One can think of many violations of University regulations that would warrant dismissing a student from A. Ray University of Utah |