Former HillTV members will have a chance to appeal Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s decision to disband the station after receiving an announcement from Dean of Students Anastasia Urtz.

A Public Safety officer delivered Urtz’s letter to the apartment of former HillTV general manager Rich Levy on Friday afternoon. The letter says the case will be heard by three tenured faculty members, but does not say who specifically. There is also no date and location for the hearing specified in the letter, Levy said.

The case will not be heard by the Judicial Review Board because it qualifies for ‘modified procedures’ as stated in the Judicial System Handbook, Levy said.

Cases can qualify for modified procedures if ‘safety and security issues so demand, when special expertise is needed to ensure fairness or in other circumstances where in the university’s sole discretion, the procedures described herein are deemed insufficient to meet the objectives of educating and protecting members of the university community,’ according to the handbook.

The three tenured faculty members chosen will have the authority to decide what sanctions should be imposed against HillTV, Levy said.

‘We’re glad we’re going to get a hearing and have the opportunity to defend accusations made against HillTV,’ Levy said. ‘And we’re pleased that our appeal was acted on by university.’

Published on October 30, 2005 at 12:00 pm