The Syracuse University Board of Trustees Executive Board announced on Monday its position regarding Chancellor Nancy Cantor and the recent decision to re-establish HillTV by the University Hearing Board.

The Executive Board concluded several things from their review of both Cantor and the University Hearing Board’s decision, according to the SU News Service bulletins.

John Brenner, a student representative on the Board of Trustees, said with regards to discussing HillTV, he and the other student representatives told the board how other students on campus reacted to the issues of the television station.

Student representatives are not part of the Board of Trustees Executive Board, Brenner said. As a student representative, the board asks him to explain how other students on campus feel about issues, which is exactly what he did regarding HillTV, he said.

‘What we said factored into their decision, but most of their decision was based off of the information from the panel,’ Brenner said.

Conclusions made by the Board of Trustees were made during Executive Board sessions, closed meetings that took place while the other representatives on the board were in recess, Brenner said.

First, the Executive Board concluded that HillTV violated Part 3 of the Code of Student Conduct. To be re-established as an organization, the University Hearing Board deems it necessary for HillTV to revise present and future sanctions and restrictions, the SU News Services bulletin stated.

The Board of Trustees Executive Board also concluded that all actions taken by Cantor regarding HillTV, in an act of necessity and urgency, were correct, according to the bulletin.

Brenner would not comment regarding the student representatives’ discussion about Cantor.

In addition to its new sanctions and restrictions, HillTV must adopt a new name, the bulletin stated. The station must also create a ‘Committee on Cultural Competence,’ to make sure that Part 3 of the Code of Student Conduct is met.

Finally, all of the decisions made by the Hearing Board are to be put into action by the SU administration to help re-establish HillTV, according to the bulletin.

 

Published on December 5, 2005 at 12:00 pm