It was instituted on an interim basis in January 1993 and has been reviewed by the Regents each year. They decided the fate of the code on Friday. The group's members included students representing a wide range of the ideological spectrum, from the editorial board of the Michigan Review on the right to the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition on the other end of the spectrum. The students argued that the code would be used to infringe on their First Amendment rights, silencing them rather than encouraging discourse. Residential College junior Jodi Masley felt that students should have a more direct role in the judicial process on campus.
Regents have unilateral power to make decisions which affect students.
Masley proposed that MSA's judicial body assume responsibility for handling student disputes. Not all students in the SAC group agreed that MSA should handle these student conflicts. While in the Fleming Building lobby, many students were chanting that the courts should decide judicial matters and the University should stay out of the judicial system. The students quietly filed in and listened as the Regents ran through their agenda. The Regents closed the meeting to the public to discuss legal matters and the students peacefully dispersed, reappearing to plead their case at the 4 p.m. public comments session in the Michigan Union.