Referrals - cases referred to Judicial Affairs have always been the more serious one's, but since the separation of Judicial Affairs from Community Standards, the concentration of serious cases is more pronounced. Police Services and Residence Life are the two largest customers of Judicial Affairs in that they refer the most incidents. Violations - the most frequent violation at all locations continued to be by far, Alcohol. At the other locations, all of the violations were very much the same. Disruptive behavior by students continues to be a problem in and out of the classroom.
Drug related violations continue to increase, specifically, marijuana and designer drugs.
We will continue discussions with University officials and local authorities in regard to our current practice for responding to incidents occurring off the University premises. Alcohol continues to be the largest problem on and off campus. As student housing continues to disperse into areas outside of the borough of State College, there will be increasing pressure for the University to respond. Academic Dishonesty - we need to continue our review and improvement of the process for handling Academic Dishonesty violations. In 1998-99 the cases reviewed was 8.