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

Reply-To: provost@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Unofficial St. Patrick's Day - Friday, March 4

From: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost 
[provost@illinois.edu]
To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
Subject: MASSMAIL - Unofficial St. Patrick's Day - Friday, March 4

On Friday, March 4, 2011, many students and visitors will participate in 
an event known as Unofficial St. Patrick's Day. While the University does 
not support or condone this event, steps are being taken to ensure safety 
and to minimize disruption to classes and campus operations.

The Champaign, Urbana, and University of Illinois police departments, 
assisted by other local and state agencies, will patrol the campus 
district on March 4. They will enforce all applicable ordinances in 
commercial and residential areas, and have 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 continue to 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 
4, 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 4.

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and 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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