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(02/20/17 5:44am)
In 2005, the Consensus Clause amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution narrowly failed to pass ratification by the student body, garnering 59.5 percent of the popular vote. This result even beat out last year’s multi-sanction vote of 58.9 percent. The Consensus Clause would have required a majority of the entire student body to vote in favor of the constitutional changes affecting sanctioning. This would have effectively set the single sanction in stone, as the largest voter turnout in recent history failed to even reach 41 percent (because not all authors uniformly support the single sanction, we will not comment on the merits of the Consensus Clause).
(02/13/17 5:06am)
Two students, Vendarryl Jenkins and Nathan Gonzalez, have recently proposed an amendment to the Honor Committee Constitution that would lower the qualified majority needed to ratify future amendments from 60 percent to 55 percent. On Feb. 7, they published an open letter that introduced this proposal to the student body. We want to be clear the editorial which follows does not take a stance on the substance of the amendment itself. Upon reading the letter, however, we felt that it was necessary to respond to certain claims the amendment’s sponsors make, some of which are premised on incomplete and inaccurate information.
(02/23/16 5:38am)
Before addressing the authors’ non-legal concerns with the single sanction, we would like to dispel some egregious misinformation: Jaeyoon Park and Ian Robertson’s recent op-ed “Honor is not above the law” makes incorrect assumptions about due process and the honor system. The authors have contended that the honor system as it currently functions “violates basic due process of law.” First, it is important to note that both the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (an appellate court one step below the U.S. Supreme Court for federal cases arising in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina), have already dismissed a direct challenge to the sufficiency of due process protections for students accused of an honor offense in the case Henson v. the Honor Committee of UVA. Now we address each of the authors’ arguments in turn.