Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:33:54 -0800
From: Daniel Pope
Subject: Re: Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Student Records
To: gilkey@uoregon.edu

Dear All,

Like Gina Psaki, I want to compliment Garrett on his draft. I have no major revisions to suggest. I do agree with Gina's point that we should make a reference to "recent changes in federal law" at some point. (I think this is better language than "recent federal legislation," since it doesn't get us back into the question of whether we're responding to the FERPA changes or the new context brought about by the Patriot Act.) I also would like to see the "while essential in a free society" phrase dropped.

In order to maintain my professorial credentials, I will offer two quibbles: First, in paragraph one, could we say we're "partially supported by taxpayer funds"? Second, a very minor stylistic point, in the second sentence of the last paragraph, I'd suggest reversing the order of the two prepositional phrases so it reads "cannot provide legal immunity from lawful orders to any of its personnel."

Garrett--thanks again for putting this together.

Best, Daniel