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Follow ing months o f study by its student affairs committee, the Faculty Senate passed three resolutions at Tuesday night's meeting responding to the Women's Resource Center probation issue. The meeting also saw progress in revising the academic honor code and implementing a new faculty alcohol policy. The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) was given a two-year probation last May by the Office o f Student Activities, who claimed the student group had referred abortion services. Procedural uncertainties and questions of aca­ demic freedom triggered the Faculty Senate's involvement almost immediately. Wednesday's resolutions marked the culm i­ nation o f the s tuden t a ffa irs com m ittee ’s research and deliberation op the issue and rep­ resents proposals on how to address what the majority o f senators see as a situation in need of repair. The first resolution concerned the specifics of the WRC's probation, the second raised ques­ tions about fairness in student d isc ip linary hearings and the third questioned the general relationship between academic life, residence life , the provost and the Office o f Student Affairs. First, the senate moved to criticize the WRC probation. "Be it therefore resolved that the vice presi­ dent for Student Affairs rescind the probabtion of the WRC and replace the confiscated materi­ als," read the final text of the first resolution, which passed with a 31-2-1 vote. The WRC’s probationary status demands that the group remove all materials from its files and library that “ is value-neutral on the issue