The Honor Committee met Sunday night to discuss ways to increase its outreach efforts with students and faculty in their respective schools.
Caroline Herre, a graduate student and Architecture representative, suggested engaging student groups within the Architecture School with Honor.
“We mostly discussed how to reach out to current organizations and more people in the Architecture school and engage them with us and the Honor System over all,” Herre said.
Corinne Thomas, a fourth-year student and Commerce School representative, said taking advantage of student personal mailboxes would be an effective method of outreach.
“A couple things that we discussed that were new was taking advantage of the fact that every student at McIntire has a personal mailbox and people constantly advertise in that space, so we were thinking of flyering over there,” she said.
Fourth-year College student Katie Deal suggested holding a roundtable discussion for new professors and faculty members across different departments to discuss their understanding of Honor.
“That could be bringing together the Anthropology department [and] the WGS department and having either [graduate] students [or] professors there to discuss what Honor’s origins are and how they’re contextualized within a specific culture,” Deal said. “So a much more intellectually driven conversation about Honor as a cultural institution rather than Honor as a punitive system.”
Honor Chair Matt West, a fourth-year College student, also discussed an issue that has arisen involving falsification on Title IX reports.
“The past couple years there’ve been Title IX reports that potentially questions … whether an Honor report would stem from a Title IX report. So a situation where an accuser was reported to the Honor Committee for lying to the Title IX coordinator for filing that report,” West said. “So it’s an interesting complex situation [that] we never had to formally deal with yet but remains a possibility.”
West said he has scheduled a meeting with the Honor Committee’s legal advisor and University Title IX Coordinator Catherine Spear, which may result in a proposed by-law change for the organization.
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