The second portion of a disciplinary hearing for two University students charged with violating the student conduct code during November's CIA protest will take place tomorrow afternoon.

After hearing testimony for five hours last Tuesday, members of the University Hearing Board decided to postpone Travis Parchman's (senior-computer science) and Jessica Stern's (sophomore-liberal arts) hearing to allow all scheduled witnesses to make their statements, said Donald T. Suit, director for the Office of Conduct Standards.

While the University was able to present all five of its witnesses, the students called only five of 12 scheduled witnesses before the board decided to reconvene the hearing.

Parchman and Stern face several charges -- two counts of physical abuse, one count of failure to comply with University officials, one count of disorderly conduct, one count of unauthorized entry or use of University facilities and one count of disrupting University operations.

The charges stem from last November's CIA on-campus recruitment protest at McAllister Building. About 22 protesters confronted students scheduled to interview with the agency. University Police officers were stationed at the building and videotaped parts of the protest.

Hearings have been split into two sessions in past meetings, and Suit said this fact will not be detrimental for the students. This hearing is no more complex than any other conduct hearings, he added.

"Actually, it's much like a court trial," he said. "It's meant to make sure all the students' witnesses provide their testimony."

"You have to allow at least 15 to 30 minutes for each witness. With the students having 12 witnesses scheduled, plus the opening statements and other procedures, you're talking at least seven or eight hours," he added. "The issues involved in the hearing are relatively simple and few."

Suit said Parchman and Stern are subject to the whole range of disciplinary sanctions listed in the Policies and Rules for Students handbook. The sanctions range from the mildest punishment -- disciplinary warning - to the stiffest penalty the University can impose --disciplinary expulsion.

Disciplinary expulsion is "the permanent withdrawal by the President of the University of student's privilege of registration, class attendance, or residence on campus and use of University facilities."