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The University of Michigan\u2019s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs<\/a> met in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building Monday afternoon to discuss the University\u2019s discipline of student protesters<\/a> through the Office of Student Conflict Resolution<\/a> and new surveillance<\/a> cameras on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n The meeting began with SACUA Chair Derek Peterson giving Assembly members updates on\u00a0 the progress of the different motions<\/a> the Faculty Senate adopted Nov. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n Peterson also discussed Faculty Senate\u2019s Political Speech in the Public Square<\/a> series, with the first event held for\u00a0 Nov. 18 on the Diag. The event is part of a larger series organized by the Faculty Senate with the aim of promoting dialogue on a variety of issues including surveillance, artificial intelligence and free speech. This installment will focus on surveillance, which Peterson said is timely given recent changes<\/a> on campus.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will be under the eye of two new security cameras that have been installed right outside the (Graduate) Library,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThey\u2019ll be peering down upon us, I\u2019m sure, and whoever\u2019s watching those cameras will be watching with great anticipation as we say things that go against their rulebook in whatever way they have defined it, so that will be basically an exercise in First Amendment anti-surveillance activism.\u201d<\/p>\n