UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 26, Page 2
April 6, 1995
Faculty Senate recommends a 'smoke free' campus

     Except for residence halls,  University of Delaware buildings
will soon be smoke-free.
     At its Monday meeting, the University Faculty Senate approved a
new smoking policy that declares the interior of all University-owned
or occupied buildings and University-owned vehicles to be smoke-free.
     According to the resolution, which must be approved by the
University's provost and president, smoking will be permitted outside
one designated entrance for buildings with multiple entrances.
     Unit heads of a building will determine which entrances will be
smoking or non-smoking, in cooperation with the assistant director of
plant operations, grounds division.
     The resolution will be included in the Faculty Handbook.
     An open hearing on the proposed smoking policy was held in
October, but the original decision to amend the smoking policy was
initiated by the senate in 1991. The new policy passed with three
opposed and one abstention.
     In other business, the senate approved a new conflict of interest
disclosure statement for grant proposals, amending the resolution to
allow it to be updated by the research committee as needed. A
statement on professional ethics, taken from an American Association
of University Professors document, also was adopted.
     Two resolutions concerning sabbatical leave were approved. The
first provides that the applicant be notified promptly of the action
at each of the three levels of administrative review-by department
chairperson, college dean and provost-to assist in planning the
sabbatical.
     Recognizing that some units cannot afford to hire substitute
instructors for professors on sabbatical leave, the senate removed a
sentence from the Faculty Handbook stating "The granting of the leave
must not result in additional costs to the University."
     Senators also agreed that the nominee for the Professor of the
Year award sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE) can be selected from the winners of the Francis
Alison Award and from the nominees or winners of the Alumni
Distinguished Professorship.
     The student Code of Conduct also was revised at the meeting, with
senators amending the definition of dangerous instruments, deadly
weapons and explosive chemicals prohibited on campus.
     Also prohibited under the revised policy are BB guns, pellet
guns, air rifles, paint guns, decorative or functional swords and
martial arts weapons.
     Fireworks are included among prohibited explosive devices.
                                                        -Cornelia Weil