The Honor Committee continued to discuss possible changes to its bylaws yesterday evening which would introduce "informed retraction" to honor cases.
Batten School Rep. Michael Karlik proposed the plan last week, which would provide an alternative to conscientious retraction or formal honor proceedings.
Karlik's informed retraction proposal, which differs from the legislation discussed by the Committee last semester, would allow a student to come forward and admit his mistake after having been approached by another party accusing him of having violated the honor code. The student submitting the informed retraction would then avoid formal honor proceedings and possible dismissal from the University by fulfilling punitive obligations decided by the professor or any other parties affected by the act.
At yesterday's meeting Karlik said the Committee's main concerns with the proposal can be summarized into three potential problems.
The first concern dealt with the logistics of determining who would punish the student making an informed retraction.
The second point concerned the "arbitrariness, reporting rates, who gets [to use] the IR, [and] who gets reported," Karlik said. The proposal's ambiguity on certain technical aspects means that it is unclear whether there would be a limit to the number of times a student could use informed retraction, Karlik said.
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