From: Frank Stahl fstahl@molbio.uoregon.edu
Subject: Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Student Records
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:24:24 -0800
To: gilkey@uoregon.edu

Dear Friends, I concur with Gina and Dan that Garrett has done well. I wonder only about the following sentence:

"As head of the University, the president has made a commitment that he and his office will be involved with the counsel's office in formulating general policies governing such requests and, to the extent permitted by law, in evaluating individual requests."

The subpoenas that are of particular concern (as expressed at the first Senate meeting on this subject) are those issued ex parte. It is those subpoenas (uniquely) that need presidential review, but it is those subpoenas (uniquely) that the President is forbidden by law from seeing, or even knowing the existence of.

Therefore, I find the phrase quoted above, while totally accurate, to be misleadingly comforting and, arguably, disingenuous. I (and the President, and the Senate -- I suspect) hope that the Committee can find some way to involve the President where he is needed without putting him, the Counsel, or the Registrar at risk. If the Committee can find no such way, it should so inform the Senate and should consider removing the empty phrase quoted above.

Respectfully, Frank

Franklin W. Stahl American Cancer Society Professor Institute of Molecular Biology 1370 Franklin Boulevard 1229 University of Oregon Eugene, OR, USA 97403-1229 Tel: 541-346-6096 Fax: 541-346-5891