This is his second term. He ran for re-election with specific platform goals in mind. Some, he said he’s already working on but has not yet accomplished. Others, he still hasn’t begun to cross off his list.

Student Chief Justice Lock Whiteside, a first-year graduate student in social studies education, had three main goals listed on his platform: raising the burden of proof for students accused of violations; creating a year-long series of alcohol awareness programs; and getting the Judicial Board out into classrooms and organizations with Academic Integrity Programs.

Inactive Judicial Board member Danielle Seale said although she does not agree with Whiteside’s stance on raising the burden of proof, that is the main thing he has been pushing for over the past year.

“To raise it means more students would still be on campus than who should be, especially students who come in for nonacademic issues like drugs and alcohol,” Seale, a graduate student in public administration, said.

Whiteside, on the other hand, said he felt raising the burden of proof would be more beneficial to students, since the board and administrators would have to obtain a lot more evidence than is required now to convict a person.

He submitted his proposal to the Student Senate two weeks ago and said he will meet with Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Evelyn Reiman about it.

Seale was not too optimistic about it.

“It might be approved by the Student Senate, but I don’t think it’ll go all the way through the Board of Trustees and the proper administrative channels,” Seale said. “Energy should be spent elsewhere.”

Whiteside’s focus, Seale said, should concentrate more on alcohol awareness programs and academic integrity programs.

“The Judicial Board as a whole has done better in past years with academic integrity awareness programs,” Seale said.

She attributes this to the fact that one judicial board member was very passionate on the issue and pushed it, but when she left, Whiteside let the fervor for it die.

Sam Walker, a freshman in biological engineering, said she does not know who the chief justice is nor his role, but said she has a general idea of the Judicial Board’s duties — “the people who usually have a say on what happens when other students get in trouble.”

Whiteside said he has been speaking at orientation sessions and to freshmen in their classes about academic integrity.

Although Walker said she hasn’t heard his presentation, her brief knowledge of the Judicial Board came from fliers she saw around campus.

Seale said she hopes Whiteside continues this type of outreach and includes the other members of the Judicial Board in these programs.

“It’s a great idea, and I’m glad to see that it’s been a priority for him,” she said.

Whiteside said another platform goal he has yet to accomplish is the alcohol awareness programs because he is waiting for the appropriate officials to purchase go-carts and other items necessary to the programs.

“We’re working with N.C. State Public Safety and the Alcohol Law Enforcement,” Whiteside said.

Seale said the board has worked with Student Health, Health Promotions and Campus Police in the past to advocate such preventative programs, and they need to be available for students again.

“Besides awareness as to what alcohol does to your body, students would benefit from knowing what the consequences are legally and from the N.C. State community [for their actions],” she said.