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Members
of the School of Mines community
accept the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
As a student at the School of Mines, you are responsible
for the decisions you make that affect the campus community; you need to
be a good citizen and a good neighbor. If what you do makes it so others
can’t listen to the instructor in class, or sleep at night in the dorms,
then you are not being a responsible citizen. If you see others breaking
rules and don’t do anything about it, then you are not fulfilling your
duty as a good neighbor. If you damage property, have alcohol on campus,
or remain in the presence of alcohol while on campus, you are not
accepting the duties and responsibilities of citizenship and you are
violating university and Board of Regent policies.
It is important to understand that what you
do and what you allow others to do around you impact our community. As a
member of this community, you are expected to act in way that improves and
benefits the community as a whole.
Example: You enter a room in Peterson Hall. You’re there to watch a
movie and study for a history test. Several other people are there to
drink beer and watch the movie. You see the alcohol in the room and you
decide to stay. Another student enters the room, planning to study, sees
the alcohol and decides to leave. Twenty minutes later, Residence Life
staff knocks on the door as those who are drinking beer are getting loud.
Because you chose to stay in the room knowing that policies were being
violated and you did not act against the policy violation or remove
yourself from the situation, you were not a responsible citizen.
Policies that are in
place to assist you with decision making and guide you to knowing what it
takes to accept the duties and responsibilities of citizenship include the
following BOR policies listed within the SDSM&T Student Code of Conduct:
2. Disruption or
obstruction of teaching, research, administration, disciplinary proceedings,
other institutional activities, including its public service functions on or
off campus, or other authorized non-institutional activities.
3. Disruption of or
interference with the activities of persons who are studying, sleeping, or
otherwise engaging in activities that are consistent with the normal and
expected uses of institutional facilities, or of student residential
facilities, whether institutionally controlled or not.
8. Attempted or actual
damage to property, including intellectual properties, of the institution or
property of a member of the institutional community or other personal or
public property;
11. Failure to comply
with directions of institutional officials or law enforcement officers
acting in performance of their duties or failure to identify oneself to
these persons when requested to do so;
13. Violation of
published Board or institutional policies, rules or regulations;
14. Violation of
federal, state, or local law on institutional premises or at
institutionally-sponsored or -supervised activities;
15. Making bomb threats;
16. The manufacture,
sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol, marijuana or controlled
substances by students on any property controlled by the Board of Regents
and in connection with any institutionally sponsored activity; except that
alcohol may be served at social activities held in other locations subject
to the restrictions set out in this article;
17. Illegal or
unauthorized possession of firearms, other items defined as dangerous
weapons in SDCL § 22-1-2(10), fireworks, explosives, or dangerous chemicals
on institutional premises;
19. Obstruction of the
free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on institutional premises or at
institutionally-sponsored or –supervised functions;
20. Conduct classified
under state law or local ordinance as disorderly, lewd, indecent or a breach
of peace;
21. Aiding, abetting,
inviting or procuring another person to breach the peace or to violate the
Student Conduct Code;
23. Abuse of the
Judicial System, including but not limited to:
a. Failure to obey
the summons of a judicial body or institutional official;
b. Falsification,
distortion, or misrepresentation of information before a judicial body;
c. Disruption or
interference with the orderly conduct of a judicial proceeding;
d. Initiation of a
judicial proceeding knowingly without cause;
e. Attempting to
discourage an individual’s proper participation in, or use of, the judicial
system, including retaliation against persons who brought charges or gave
testimony;
f. Attempting to
influence the impartiality of a member of a judicial body prior to, or
during the course of, the judicial proceeding;
g. Harassment (verbal
or physical) or intimidation of a member of a judicial body prior to,
during, or after a judicial proceeding;
h. Failure to comply
with the sanction(s) imposed under the Student Code;
i. Influencing or
attempting to influence another person to commit an abuse of the judicial
system.
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