Tuesday, April 06 2010
By Lauren Redding,
Diamondbackonline.com
On-campus smokers can breathe freely agan after the University Senate's most powerful committee tossed out a proposed campus-wide smoking ban yesterday.
The Senate Executive Committee recommended strengthening the university's ability to enforce existing smoking rules rather than instituting an all-campus ban. The committee charged with examining the issue, which was brought to the senate's attention last year by an undergraduate concerned about the health risks of secondhand smoke, concluded enforcing such a ban would be difficult for a campus this large. Educating students about the dangers of smoking and the standing restrictions, they decided, would be more effective.
The senate will not vote on the issue. Instead, senate officials will send a letter to the Division of Administrative Affairs highlighting the need for greater enforcement of the smoking policy - it is against university rules to light up within 15 feet of a building...story continues here
