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Student Obligations and Regulations

Each student, upon enrollment at the University, assumes an obligation to obey all rules and regulations made by the University, to preserve faithfully all property provided by the state for his or her education, and to discharge duties as a student with diligence, fidelity, and honor. Failure to observe the following regulations will subject the student to disciplinary action:

1. Public Law - All students are expected to conform to all local, state, and federal laws.
2. Personal Behavior - Each student shall maintain the highest standards of integrity, honesty, and morality, and shall obey the university rules and regulations.
3. Disorderly Assembly - No group of students shall gather in such a manner as to disturb the public peace, do violence to any person or property, or disrupt the function of the university, or interfere with its faculty or staff in the performance of their duties. No student shall encourage or in any way participate in the formation or prolonging of such a gathering.
4. Disturbing the Peace and Destruction of Property - No student, organization or group of students may disturb the peace, destroy, molest, deface or remove State or university property, or intentionally or negligently injure another person (including "hazing"). In addition, the officers of the organization may be held accountable in cases of hazing.
5. Alcoholic Beverages or Illegal Narcotics - The consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages, or illegal narcotics in any form, on the campus, in university housing (to include sorority and fraternity housing), or at any event sponsored by or for a student organization or other university sponsored activity for students, is forbidden.
6. Falsification of Records - No student may falsify or participate in the falsification of any official university record.
7. Payment of Accounts - Students shall make satisfactory arrangements for the settling of university accounts promptly. Failure on the part of a student to make satisfactory arrangements for the settlement of a university account by the due date will result in either suspension or the placing of a "hold" on the student's records. A student may neither re-enroll, receive a diploma, nor obtain a transcript until the student has (1) cleared the account, and (2) paid the assessed service charge to cover the administrative expense involved in placing the "hold" on the record.
8. Weapons - The possession or firing of firearms, fireworks, explosives or weapons including but not limited to bows, knives, or guns by students is prohibited on campus, in any student residence, sorority, fraternity, approved private housing or university operated facility, except as they are used in officially approved university programs.
9. Failure to Comply with Lawful Directions - Failure to comply with the lawful direction of a University official acting in the performance of their duty may result in disciplinary action.
10. Change of Address - It is the student's responsibility to update addresses in the Registrar's Office.
11. 11. Off Campus - Actions not committed on University property may also be subject to university disciplinary action in cases where a clear and distinct interest of the University is involved or affected. This includes, but is not limited to, offenses related to the security and welfare of persons and/or property or the integrity of the educational process.