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Page 8 The Blue Banner Water continued from page one water will be used for cooking and for making coffee and juice, she said. Coffee, soda, and juice ma chines will be a problem, since they are connected to the wa ter lines, said Palien. Bottled water, instant coffee, and juices made from bottled wa ter will be supplied, she said. Paper products will also be supplied, since the Marriott’s dish-washing machine will not be used for several days, said Palien. She said the dish machine will not be used because of the sediment which will result from the water system flush ing. During the second weekend of the flushing, UNCA is hav ing an Open House. “We’re taking the premise that there will be some impact on the campus,” said Chris Brown, university admissions representative. He said Marriott is prepar ing refreshments ahead of time. There will be bottled water and drink coolers for the Open House events, said Brown. However, Brown said he does not think the water flushing will affect the Open House in “any big way.” Grocery stores are feeling the effect of the upcoming water flushing. Lynn Ownbey, manager of Best Food, said on March 1, the store received 600 cases of regular one gallon plastic con tainers of drinking and dis tilled water. “We’ll probably bring in these amounts for the next two weeks, two times a week,” she said. Ron Thomas, manager of Ingles, said his store has “plenty of water in supply and plenty on hand.” Ingles will be ordering 20 pallets containing 60 cases per pallet, said Thomas. He said he expected 200 cases a week to be sold. He also said that Ingles in tends to have floor, shelf, and refrigerated shelf displays for water. While the water department does not expect the water to be dangerous to anyone’s health during the flushing, their no tice listed several suggestions. The suggestions include not drinking or cooking with the water and using bottled water or water that was saved ahead of time. The notice also suggests not to wash clothes or dishes with the water, but to do laundry ahead of time and use dispos able dishes. Showers and baths can be taken and toilets can be flushed, according to the no tice. However, during this time, water pressure could drop oc casionally as the lines are flushed. Following phase one, the flushing of smaller, more lo calized water distribution lines will begin and continue for approximately six weeks, ac cording to the notice. Water will be discolored for 12 hours or less only in the neighborhoods that are being flushed. The second phase of the wa ter flushing will not have a system-wide impact. Arrest continued from page one According to Reynolds, a to tal of $1,070 in stolen prop erty was recovered from the subjects’ car, including an AT&T cellular phone, a com pact disc case, three watches, a compact disc player, and a ra dar detector. Wright and one other stu dent, Kevin Claridge, were notified that their cars had been broken into. Both iden tified items from the subjects’ car as theirs. Reynolds and Dennis Gre gory, investigation and crime prevention officer, said the subjects could be part of a crime group that has broken into cars in the past, but nei ther thought the three were responsible for every break-in on campus. Also, Gregory said the arrest may lessen the num ber of break-ins for a while, but that crimes will probably still occur. According to Reynolds and Gregory, the teenagers had no connection to UNCA. V.'- , - ''V Photo by Jeanette Webb The gravel lot behind the dining hall was the site of car break-ins lost Friday. Officer Richard Reynolds arrested three teenagers after discovering stolen merchandise in their car. It s finally here! Dorms will close at 9 p.m. on Fri day. Classes will resume Monday, March 18. The Blue Banner is now accepting applications hr ihe positions of Ad Manager and Business Manager. These are paid positions. Come by ihe office at Carmidiael 208 A to pick up an application! Openness of student court debated (CPS)-University of Florida first-year student Braden Malnic was just passing the time outside of his dormitory last October, throwing burnt-out matches on the ground when one hit a nearby student. An gered, the student threw a dis posable lighter at Malnic. It chipped his front tooth. Thus began Malnic’s three- month trip through Student Judicial Affairs, a frustrating journey that led to his having to perform community service and being placed on conduct probation. Malnic told his story to his hall director, who told Malnic he could receive compensation for the tooth if he took his case to Student Judicial Affairs. However, Malnic did not re ceive any money when he went before Sara Steyer, coordinator of residential judicial programs. Instead, he was found guilty of disorderly conduct, put on con duct probation and ordered to serve eight hours of commu nity service around campus. Malnic says he is being pun ished for doing nothing, the result of a system he calls “ a little messed up.” “If you [go through] the sys tem, it’s just like you’re talking to a lady who doesn’t have alot ofrespect foryou,” Malnic said. “It’s basically just like high school.” Malnic said he would want people to know his story if he thought it could change UF’s judicial system. But like most other student records, the ac count of his hearing is closed. However, a new bill before the state House Committee on Higher Education could begin to shed some light on his case and others by allowing him the option of an open hearing. The Buckley Factor Under the current system at UF, a student charged with an alleged violation of the Stu dent Conduct Code has several options; an informal proceed ing with an administrator, a taped formal hearing with an administrator or a hearing be fore the half-student, half-fac ulty Student Conduct Com mittee. If a student is charged with a violation of academic honesty, the Student Honor Court also can hear the case. Violations of the Student Conduct Code range from cheating to assault. Punishments for these viola tions can range from written reprimands to expulsion from the university. And while punishments can vary for the same violation, a 20-year-old law keeps students from knowing whether another specific student received a milder punishment for the same offense. Malnic, for example, cannot find out how the stu dent who chipped his tooth was punished. Because of the Buckley Amendment, an open hearing requires both student charged and all student witnesses to agree to open the proceedings. Passed in 1974 as part of the Family Educational rights and Privacy Act, the Buckely Amendment states that a student’s educational records are not part of the public record. Congress later amended the act to exclude campus police records, but Mike Hiestand, an attorney with the Student Press Law Center in Washing ton, said most universities use the amendment to drape a cloak of secrecy” over student judicial records and hearings. Opening student hearings would bring “ a measure of oversight,” Hiestand said, to the system to ensure that some students- athletes, forexample- do not receive milder punish ments than other students. Student Honor Court Chan cellor Karl Kiebman said open hearings would benefit the court system by letting students see how their court system op erates. “Personally, I have no prob lem at all with someone com ing in and watching my hear ings,” he said. “If I were being wrongfully accused of some thing like that, I would want the whole world to know what’s going on.” While an open student judi cial records policy has made it to Georgia’s state university system, Hiestand said he did not think the nation’s colleges would embrace the concept of open hearings anytime soon. “It looks like it’s going to be another long battle before we get this thing changed,” Hiestand said. “[Universities] are fighting any effort to open the campus judicial process with all guns blaring.” Fragile Reputations Proponents of open judicial hearings argue that student ju dicial hearings should mimic the adult criminal cases in their openness. 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