The University Judiciary Committee had its first general body meeting of the 2016-17 term April 3 to introduce the new executive board members and go over general goals of the coming term.
The committee is the central governing and operating body of UJC and is responsible for investigating alleged violations of the University’s Standards of Conduct. The committee is comprised of 25 representatives who are elected from the 11 schools at the University.
The new executive committee consists of third-year College student Mitchell Wellman as chair and third-year Engineering student Jacqueline Kouri, Law student Peter Bautz and Arts and Sciences graduate student Deborah Luzader as vice chairs.
Third-year College student Jenny Brzezynski serves as senior investigator; Law student Alex Haden and third-year College student Emily Woznak serve as senior counselors; and second-year Commerce student Kimberly Flintsch Medina serves as senior educator.
First-year Engineering student Kevin Warshaw is the senior data manager; and first-year College students Jordan Arnold and Megan Routbort are the FYJC chair and vice chair, respectively.
The entire body heard the executive board’s general goals for the term.
“The goals are that we want to always keep the UJC mission in mind, and that means we are serving all education regardless of their background or the context of their incident. We want to increase our outreach in quantity and quality,” Wellman said. “We want to battle the question of what is the difference between UJC and Honor that we all know is a problem we face.”
The committee has also set new goals for the functionality of UJC and its operations at the University.
“We want to work towards a better training system for support officers this focus,” Wellman said. “We want to have more substance in our cases that are standard ones, those hard cases where we need witness testimony, where we need evidence to make the hard calls about guilt and sanction.”
One of the main goals set out during the UJC general body meeting highlighted changing the perception of the role of the committee in contrast to the Honor Committee’s role.
“Honor deals with students who have apparently lied, stolen or cheated on something, and we deal with any other conduct that might not be representative of a U.Va. student or upstanding community member,” Wellman said. “We have twelve standards of conduct that stipulate what behavior we expect from students.”
UJC will be holding general body meetings every two weeks on Sunday.
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