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Honorary Life Members

John Motley Morehead
William R. Kenan
Luther H. Hodges
John W. Clark

Messages were received from the following members expressing regrets for their inability to be present:

Dr. L. H. Swindell
J. Hanes Lassiter
Mrs. Ed M. Anderson
Bowman Gray
John P. Stedman
Claude W. Rankin

Mr. Stedman and Mrs. Anderson were absent because of illness.

Administrative Code

Governor Sanford called on Judge Mintz for a report of the Special Committee on revision of the Administrative Code.

Judge Mintz thanked Mr. Claude Teague, Mr. Weaver, members of his Committee and others who labored so diligently to bring this report to the Board. He then presented a printed draft of the revised Code, which with a few corrections of minor clerical errors, he offered for adoption.

Mr. Hamilton seconded the motion for adoption.

The Code was then discussed at length, and Mr. Weeks called attention to that section dealing with the right of a faculty member to have advice and assistance in his own defense where the same right is denied a student. It was pointed out that a student does have the right to counsel among the student body and that counsel may be of his own choice or that of his parents.

Chancellor Aycock explained that it is the policy of the faculty and the Chancellor, at Chapel Hill, not to permit legal counsel before a student council organization. Were legal counsel permitted for the defense, then legal counsel would have to be called in for the prosecution. The students do the prosecuting and the students do the convicting. In the event a student desires (student) defense counsel, this wish is always granted. It is felt that the student council process must work both ways, and that to have legal counsel in a student council hearing would be carryin the hearing into what might be regarded as a criminal court.

President Friday supplemented Chancellor Aycock's remarks by pointing out that a faculty member has tenure status - a contractural relationship - which does not apply to a student. He also stated that the present procedure has worked in the University for more than a hundred years, and

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