In their meeting Sunday night, the Honor Committee discussed changing a clause within its constitution as a potential way to respond to the multi-sanction referendum proposed last February.
The constitution does not currently allow the Honor Committee to have a multi-sanction system. According to Article II, it only has the power to “exclude permanently from student status University students found to have committed honor violations.”
They also discussed options for a binding constitutional response after another referendum, proposed at the same time, required that all non-binding questions passed affirmatively have a binding constitutional amendment put forth the following year.
Honor Chair Faith Lyons, a fourth-year Commerce student, said she believes amending this article is the first step to making a change.
“Prior to implementing any system, we’d have to have the power to do more than that,” she said. “So it’s kind of like the first step the Committee would take that the students would have to vote on.”
Lyons said that there are many different options on the spectrum of multi-sanction options, and the Committee would like to get opinions from the students before implementing a final system. There have been difficulties so far in getting students to participate in the discussion.
One obstacle is the lack of interest that many students seem to have in responding to opinion requests, said Committee representative Adam Buckholz, a fourth-year Medical student.
“What we keep running into is there’s a 100 or so students that really care about honor and take a lot of time to write referenda and then thousands and thousands of students that get really annoyed when they get another survey,” Buckholz said.
Lyons said the likely way of getting student feedback will be through a survey, though there may be other options that have not yet been explored.
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