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Community Code rejected by student vote
Photo by Jourdan Enriquez/The Gazelle The NYUAD student body has rejected the proposed Community Code, according to results released late Friday night. ...
May 10, 2013
Photo by Jourdan Enriquez/The Gazelle
The NYUAD student body has rejected the proposed Community Code, according to results released late Friday night.
The proposed Code, which outlines an optional system of judicial peer review for disciplinary matters, was rejected by a majority vote.
On the first question, "Do you support the adoption of the Community Code as written?" the majority voted no.
On the second question, "Do you support the creation of a Community Council, governed as written?" the majority voted no.
The exact figures of the voting were not released by the Elections Board.
The vote took place online May 8-10, one month after its release to the student body.
The rejection of the Code marks the culmination of a year-long process, during which the document was crafted by an elected Community Code Development Committee and subsequently moved through an approval process by administrators and legal departments of both the Abu Dhabi and New York campuses.
Olivia Bergen, a member of the Community Code Development Committee who helped design the Code, is not sure of what will happen next. While the current Council will be dissolved, there is uncertainty as to whether a new code will be created.
"The idea of a new Code may be revisited or reintroduced, but it would be approached with a new process," she speculated.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the group crafting the document was the Community Council. It was the Community Code Development Committee, not the Community Council.
Alistair Blacklock is co-editor-in-chief. Email him at thegazelle.org@gmail.com.
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