Whereas, Andrew Dickson White assigned student conduct to the faculty rather than the President in his 1866 Plan of Organization which the Trustees adopted before making him Cornell's first President;

Whereas, a key demand of the 1969 Willard Straight Hall Takeover that led to the creation of the elected Assemblies was the creation of a campus judicial system that was independent of the central administration;

Whereas, the assemblies serve as advisory bodies to the administration, representing matters of concern and constituent interests to University leadership, and;

Whereas, the three constituent assemblies–representing undergraduate students, graduate and professional students, and staff–and the all-constituency University Assembly, along with the Faculty Senate, comprise shared governance at Cornell, and;