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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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( a ) the recommendations of the University Senate relating to administrative direction of student affairs and discipline, and ( b ) supervision of off-campus conduct, living, and activities of students, as authorized by the Board of Trustees: (1) T h e Dean of Men, as Executive Secretary of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs and ex-officio member and under the advice and direction of that body, shall have general supervision of student organizations other than social fraternities and sororities and shall be secretary of the Student Organizations Fund. H e shall continue to deal with fraternities in matters of recognition, rushing, scholarship, and similar matters. H e shall also act as coordinating officer for the activities of various faculty-student boards except the Athletic Association and the Illini Union Advisory Committee. H e shall continue to handle men's counseling and student aid for individual men students and student employment for all students. H e is hereby relieved of responsibility for the housing of men students, which his office has exercised in the past, but will be a member of the Advisory Committee on Housing. (2) T h e Dean of Women shall deal with sororities on matters of recognition, rushing, and scholarship; act as social director for all women on the campus and for social events in which both men and women participate; act as counselor for individual women students and as adviser to the W o m a n ' s League in its internal p r o g r a m ; create and maintain women's standards for all undergraduate women students; approve all chaperons, or social directors for women in organized houses or other living groups; formulate policies and regulations concerning social conduct of women students; supervise chaperonage and sponsorship problems of social events, including the receipt, review, and filing of reports of dance executives, sponsors, and chaperons; continue for the present to handle assignments in the women's residence halls and cooperative houses through her office; assign and supervise all student women in town homes who are working for room and board; act as supervisor concerning cooperative houses for women; be an ex-officio member of the Committee on Student Affairs; advise the Director of Housing on housing policies and standards for women students, and be a member of the new Advisory Committee on Housing. (3) T h e new Division of Student Housing shall be under the administration of a Director who shall have the following functions and responsibilities: ( a ) H e shall have general supervision of all student housing under the direction of an advisory and policy-making committee (Advisory Committee on H o u s i n g ) . In matters of women's housing he will follow the policies established in conjunction with the Dean of Women. (b) U n d e r policies established by the Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate, he shall act as adviser to fraternities and sororities on problems of new construction and remodeling. (c) H e shall cooperate with the Physical Plant Department in its supervision of off-campus personal conduct of students, exclusive of that at approved University functions. ( d ) H e shall also act as executive agent of the Student Affairs Committee, with power to issue and revoke motor vehicle permits pursuant to applicable rules approved by it. His power to revoke permits shall be limited to cases where conditions of obtaining or of retaining permits, as prescribed by the rules of the Student Affairs Committee, have not been complied with by the student. When, however, the sole ground of revocation is other conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the University, he shall not revoke a permit for such cause except upon notice from the Senate Committee on Student Discipline that the student has been found guilty of such conduct and subjected to disciplinary action. ( e ) T h e Director of Housing shall have no disciplinary power, such power being lodged in the Senate Committee on Student Discipline. ( f ) H e shall be Executive Secretary of the Senate Committee on Student Discipline. A more detailed outline of the distribution and relationships of the functions and responsibilities of the Dean of Men, the Dean of Women, and the Director of Student Housing, amplifying the above general statements, is being worked out in conferences with these officers and the President.