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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978
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432 BOARD OF TRUSTEES the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. Litigation Initiated by James B. Oros (50) A complaint has been filed in the Circuit Court for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Kane County, Illinois (Case No. 77-MR-7447), by James B. Oros, a student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The complaint seeks judicial review and reversal of the decision of the Academic Irregularity Hearings Committee on June 23, 1977, sustaining the grade of E given to Mr. Oros in Rhetoric 105 and seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction vacating the June 23 committee action, directing the removal of the grade from the plaintiff's record and the removal from the University files of all records pertaining to the decision. The complaint alleges that plaintiff has been deprived of certain constitutional rights without due process of law and has been denied equal protection of laws by virtue of the actions of the committee and of the established procedures for its operation. No monetary damages are sought by the complaint. T h e defendants include the University, the Academic Irregularity Hearings Committee, and the members thereof (Thomas C. Bloomer, Robert M. Copeland, and James J. Scanlon), each of whom is an employee of the University. Pursuant to previous delegations by the Board of Trustees, the university counsel has been given interim authorization to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University and to provide representation for those employees of the University who request the same and represent that any actions alleged to have been taken by them in the matter were taken in their capacities as University employees. T h e university counsel has recommended that such authorization be ratified, approved, and confirmed in all respects. I concur. The student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Conlon, Mr. Overstreet, Miss Winter; no, none. On motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. There being no further business, the board adjourned. EARL W. PORTER GEORGE W. HOWARD III Secretary President LUNCHEON GUESTS Guests of the board at luncheon included vice chancellors, deans, directors, student leaders, and staff from the Medical Center campus.
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