Rajesh Jain's April 5 column "Losing faith in honor" said that the Honor Committee defines the criterion of triviality as, "Would open toleration of such an act impair the community of trust sufficiently enough to warrant permanent dismissal from the University?"The Honor by-laws, in fact, say that "an act is considered to be non-trivial if open tolerance thereof would be inconsistent with the community of trust."
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