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Housing contracts for current residents will be available beginning on Febuary 18 at the Housing Office.
New student housing application-contracts are available on-line for admitted students.
Stadium Apartments will close after Spring 2013.
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Discipline Process
UMD expects students to act responsibly and maturely. Discipline
is viewed as an opportunity to develop respectful and responsible
citizens of the UMD community. Policies and procedures are
established to outline standards by which all members of the
community can live together effectively. The discipline process
is designed to address inappropriate or illegal behavior with
the goal of changing future behavior for the overall benefit
of our living communities. Sanctions are not necessarily sequential.
Factors influencing the sanction may include: severity of
violation, repeated violations, student attitude, and impact
of behavior on the community. Campus residents have responsibility
towards, and may be held accountable, in three communities:
Housing, the University, and the surrounding community. Violations
involving more than one community may result in sanctions
in each community. Violators must accept full individual responsibility
for their actions and cannot expect the University to provide
them with immunity from civil or criminal prosecution.
Residents violating and/or associated with violating Housing
and/or University policies and regulations will be referred
for disciplinary action. All roommates present during a violation
will be held accountable. Generally, an RA or Residence Life
Security staff member has first contact with a resident(s)
violating a policy or regulation. The RA will typically refer
the resident(s) to the Program Advisor, Residence Life Specialist
and/or Assistant Director of Housing. The Housing official
will listen to the resident(s) and staff person(s) and gather
any other information pertinent to the incident. The Housing
Official will then take the following action:
- Define the disciplinary action sanctioned which may include,
but not be limited to: Housing probation, Respectful Community
Projects, formal papers, work service hours, mandatory counseling
sessions, restitution, termination of the Housing contract
and/or eviction within 24 hours, loss of future on-campus
Housing privileges and/or;
- Refer the incident to the Conduct Code Coordinator for
violations which are disciplinary offenses actionable by
the University and/or;
- Refer the incident to the criminal authorities for violations
of city, state or federal laws.
Appeals
An appeal is a review of the disciplinary action and not
a re-hearing of the incident unless appropriate. To be considered,
an appeal request must be made in writing within 5 class days
of receipt of the disciplinary sanction disposition, and must
include a clear statement based on one or more of the concepts
described on the Disciplinary Action Appeal Form.
Appeal forms are available at the Housing Office, 149 Lake
Superior Hall. Appeal requests should be sent to John Weiske,
Associate Director of Housing, 149 Lake Superior Hall, within
five class days of receipt of the original disciplinary sanction.
Be sure to include your name, address, and phone number on
the appeal form. An appellate board will review the appeal
request and make a decision to either deny or hear the appeal.
Residents are expected to comply with the imposed sanctions
while an appeal request is being considered.
University Conduct Code
The following are defined as disciplinary offenses with which
the Conduct Code Coordinator is concerned:
- Scholastic Dishonesty
- Falsification
- Identification and Compliance
- University Facilities and
Services acting to obtain fraudulently
- Disorderly Conduct on Campus
- Theft and Property Damage
- University rules
- Weapons on Campus
- Disruptive Demonstrations
- Keys possession
- Violations of Federal or
State Law of Special Relevance to the University
- Sound Amplification
- Disruptive Noise
- Attempt to Injure or Defraud
- Disruption of University
Events
- Persistent Violations
- Scholastic Dishonesty:
submission of false records of academic achievement; cheating
on assignments or examinations; plagiarizing; altering,
forging or misusing a University academic record; taking,
acquiring or using test materials without faculty permission;
acting alone or in cooperation with another to falsify records
or to obtain dishonestly grades, honors, awards or professional
endorsement. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Falsification:
willfully providing University offices or officials with
false, misleading, or incomplete information; intentionally
making a false report of a bomb, fire, natural disaster,
or other emergency to a University official or an emergency
service agency; misusing, altering, forging, falsifying,
or transferring to another person University-issued identification;
forging, or altering without proper authorization, official
University records or documents or conspiring with or inducing
others to forge or alter without proper authorization University
records or documents. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Identification
and Compliance: willfully refusing to or falsely
identifying one's self; willfully failing to comply with
a proper order or summons when requested by an authorized
University official. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- University Facilities
and Services acting to obtain fraudently--by deceit,
by unauthorized procedures, by bad checks, by misrepresentation--goods,
quarters, services, or fund from University departments
or student organizations or individuals acting in their
behalf; misuse, alteration, or damage of fire-fighting equipment,
safety devices, or other emergency equipment or interference
in the performance of those specifically charged with carrying
out emergency services; wrongful use of University properties
or facilities. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Disorderly Conduct
on Campus: threats to, physical abuse of or harassment
which threatens to or endangers the health, safety or welfare
of a member of the University community; breach of the peace,
physically assaulting another; fighting, obstructing or
disrupting teaching, research, administrative, and public
service functions, obstructing or disrupting disciplinary
procedures or authorized University activities; vandalism.
[Top][Conduct
Code]
- Theft and Property
Damage: theft or embezzlement of, destruction of,
damage to, unauthorized possession of, or wrongful sale
or gift of property belonging to the University, a member
of the University community or a campus guest. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- University rules:
violating other University, college, department, union and
residence regulations which have been posted or publicized.
Provisions contained in University contracts with students
shall be deemed "rules" under this code. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Weapons on Campus:
possession of firearms, incendiary devices, explosives,
articles or substances usable as weapons or means of disruption
of legitimate campus functions, activities or assemblies;
or using firearms, incendiary devices, explosives, articles
or substances calculated to intimidate, disturb, discomfort,
or injure a member of the University community, except in
those instances when expressly authorized by the head of
a University department whose activities properly require
the use or possession of any of the enumerated items. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Disruptive Demonstrations:
intentional participation in a campus demonstration which
disrupts the normal operations of the University and infringes
on the rights of other members of the University community;
leading or inciting others to disrupt scheduled and/or normal
activities of any campus building or area; intentional obstruction
which unreasonably interferes with freedom of movement,
both pedestrian and vehicular, on campus. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Keys possession:
making or causing to be made any key to operate locks or
locking mechanisms on campus without proper authorization;
using or giving to another a key for which there has been
no proper authorization. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Violations
of Federal or State Law of Special Relevance to the University:
when the violation of federal or state law, including but
not limited to those governing alcoholic beverages, drugs,
gambling, sex offenses, indecent conduct, or arson occurs
on campus, the offense will also constitute an offense against
the University community. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Sound Amplification:
using sound amplification equipment such as a bullhorn on
campus or in buildings without written permission of the
Vice President for Student Affairs or the Vice President's
designee, except when such use is authorized for official
University activities. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Disruptive
Noise: making noise or causing noise to be made with
objects and instruments which disturbs classes, meetings,
office procedures and other authorized University activities.
[Top][Conduct
Code]
- Attempt to
Injure or Defraud: to make, forge, print, reproduce,
copy or alter any record, document, writing or identification
used or maintained by the University when done with intent
to injure, defraud or misinform. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Disruption
of University Events: unauthorized entry upon the
playing performance area or the spectator areas of any athletic
contest, exhibition or other event. [Top][Conduct
Code]
- Persistent
Violations: repeated conduct or action in violation
of the above code is relevant in determining an applicant's
or a student's membership in the University. [Top][Conduct
Code]
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