To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Provost Office" <provost@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: provost@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Unofficial St. Patrick's Day - March 6

On Friday, March 6, 2009, many Campustown bars, students, and visitors 
will participate in a commercial event known as Unofficial St. Patrick's 
Day. While the University does not support or condone this event, steps 
are being taken to ensure the safety of students who choose to 
participate, and to minimize disruption to classes and campus operations.

Champaign police, assisted by other local and state agencies, will patrol 
Campustown on March 6. They will enforce all applicable ordinances in 
commercial areas, and have been given authority to intervene if private 
parties threaten to disturb the peace. In addition, Champaign and Urbana 
officials will enact restrictions on liquor sales intended to curb 
overconsumption. Emergency medical personnel will be available to provide 
care.

University police will focus on protecting students, staff, faculty, and 
University property. In case of emergency, call METCAD at 911 (from 
campus phones, call 9-911). For non-emergencies, call 333-1216.

As in years past, we have made clear to students that academic business 
will continue as usual on Unofficial St. Patrick's Day. That has helped 
to minimize disruptions. Instructors should not need to alter 
instructional plans.

The Student Code (http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/policy/code/) addresses 
student responsibilities on campus. Sections 1-102(d) and 1-302(f) 
concern classroom conduct expectations, and section 1-307 focuses on 
alcohol consumption. The Code empowers instructors to ask disruptive 
students to leave class; after class, names of disruptive students should 
be reported to the Office for Student Conflict Resolution at 333-3680 or 
online at 
http://www.conflictresolution.uiuc.edu/forms/incidentReport/form.asp.

If asking a disruptive student to leave class could escalate into a 
confrontation, you may seek assistance. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 
6, teams of Student Affairs and Academic Affairs professionals will walk 
through and around buildings with classrooms and lecture halls where 
disruptions were experienced in the past. Team members, wearing 
University IDs, may be summoned to help. Teams will be prepared to 
document apparent Code violations and to call University police, if 
necessary.

Students will be asked not to bring any liquids into Foellinger 
Auditorium. (Longstanding policy prohibits liquids and food in 
Foellinger.)

Students who interfere with the academic mission of the University will 
face serious consequences. Thank you for reinforcing this message before 
and on March 6.

Office of the Provost
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

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