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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 15

C H A N G E IN HOUSING REGULATIONS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, URBANA (16) At the Urbana-Champaign campus, the University presently requires all single undergraduate men and women, other than seniors' who are under twentyone years of age as of September 1 of any particular academic year to live in housing approved by the University for the entire academic year. After extensive study, and with concurrence of the Director of the Housing Division and the Dean of Students, the Chancellor has recommended that the following policy be adopted for the Urbana-Champaign campus effective September, 1972. All single undergraduate men and women who will be twenty-one years of age or who have achieved second semester junior status (75 semester hours of academic credit) by September 1 of the academic year may elect to live in housing of their choice. All other single undergraduate students must reside in approved housing for the entire academic year unless specific permission is granted by the Dean of Students. After such a period of living in University-approved housing with more formalized guidance and academic assistance, students stand to gain from the maturing experiences of selecting housing from a broader range of possibilities. The educational merit of the variety of living arrangements available in the community provides students with the living experience that they will need for their professional and personal lives after graduation. Students have made very explicit their desire for such a modification and indeed have asked for changes which the administration is not ready at this time to recommend because of educational, budgetary, community, and other impacts. Consultation with students has been extensive, has extended over a long period of time, and will continue. Implicit in this recommendation are the following goals: to establish an educationally unique program with the residence halls which cannot be offered by other living units; to adjust the livability of residence halls to meet the needs of today's students; to keep University residence halls as competitive as possible. When budgetary conditions permit, further experience is available as to the educational merit of the new arrangement, the community housing market is not adversely affected, enrollments and appropriations are stable, married students are not adversely affected, and when some housing units are converted to other purposes, further recommendations may be presented to the Board of Trustees. Given the appropriate considerations and approval, the Urbana-Champaign campus will further accelerate a phased withdrawal from requiring students to live in University-approved facilities. The immediate effects of changing the regulations on bond commitments, on the supply of married student housing, on fraternities, sororities, and other private housing should be negligible because of the limited number of students involved and the limited number of approved spaces available. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . AGREEMENT W I T H VIDEORECORD CORPORATION OF AMERICA FOR T H E DISTRIBUTION OF VIDEOTAPED PROGRAMS,

MEDICAL CENTER

(17) T h e Chancellor at the Medical Center campus has recommended that the University negotiate a nonexclusive licensing agreement with Videorecord Corporation of America under which that company would have the nonexclusive right to duplicate, reproduce, manufacture, sell, lease, and otherwise distribute reproductions of the videotaped programs developed at the Medical Center campus in the "Consultation" series. The agreement would authorize the reproduction of these programs on "videocassettes" and would allow the presentation of these reproduced programs "through a player device or devices used in conjunction with a television set or sets, television monitors, large screen viewers or other electronic means." However, the license would not extend to "any over-the-air-tclevision broadcasting rights (but does extend to microwave transmissions) or to any rights to use video1

Seniors are denned as those who have 90 semester hours or more of academic credit.