The Honor Committee held an open meeting last night, during which community members voiced concern about the Committee's failure to present a viable alternative to the single sanction.
Committee Chair Alison Tramba said if the referendum currently on the ballot which was proposed by Hoos Against Single Sanction fails to pass, the next Honor Committee would likely form another ad hoc committee to examine other options.
Vice Chair for Trials Jay Trickett explained why the current ad hoc committee studying the single sanction chose not to offer additional alternatives to the honor system during the current election season.
"The [single sanction] ad hoc committee debated the idea of having a third alternative on the ballot," Trickett said, "But we thought it would be unfair to the student body that there would be three different options because it made it unlikely that any would pass."
Vice Chair for Investigations Andrew Siegel also presented a proposal at the meeting to further streamline the investigation process by switching to an electronic database.
"It's going to be a lot more easy to facilitate the exchange of information throughout the investigative process, the trial process and through appeals," Siegel said.
The open meeting, held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda, was headed by Vice Chair for Education A-J Aronstein. In his summary of the Committee's undertakings over the past semester, Aronstein noted this was among the slowest years for Honor in recent history.
"We have made mistakes but aim to fix them through our appeals process," Aronstein said. "It will be up to the student body and the faculty to determine the course the Committee will take."
He cited changes in the investigation system that would make the process less adversarial and presented the response to the faculty survey completed last semester as among the Committee's accomplishments this year.
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