The Undergraduate Student Government senatediscussed possible updates to the Honor Committee constitution on Sunday.
U-councilor and Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 suggested a provision that would destroy any evidence concerning a case, should a student’s appeal prove successful.If the provision were to pass, there would be no record that the student had appeared before the Honor Committee after a givendecision is overturned following an appeal.
“Destruction of evidence is personally good for the students who have a graduate school or employer who ask for disciplinary records,” U-councilor Danny Johnson ’15 said.
Johnson is a former senior writer for The Daily Princetonian.
However, U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 said he was wary of the deletion of evidence, since it is important for accused students to understand that there have been successful appeals in the past. Nan explained that appeals are not general campus-wide information.
“If all records are destroyed, there’s no way for the Honor Committee 10 years from now that might commit the same harmful bias to look back,” U-Council chair Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 said. “You don’t have to name students, but just say, ‘There was a case where this procedural unfairness thing happened or this harmful bias thing happened,’ just so the Honor Committee or the administration could avoid that.”
As an alternative, Johnson said USG should consider including the number of appeals that were successful in the aggregate statistics released every five years. Such a feature would maintain anonymity while letting students see that appeals had been filed, so as to hold the Honor Committee accountable, he added.
The ideas discussed were tentative, and the senate will vote on each revision during the meeting next week.
During the meeting, the senate reflected on the success of the Undergraduate Student Life Committee’s “As I Am” campaign from last week.
Johnson said that, while the “As I Am” campaign was very well publicized, there have been a number of photography-related projects on campus, and that USG should keep in mind that the campus will become saturated by such events at some point.
The senate also approved the Projects Board’s fund requests for two cultural events.
Projects Board co-chair Tyler Lawrence ’16 explained that the Taiwanese American Student Association’s annual night market was a “massive undertaking,” requiring approximately $8,000 in total. The senate voted to fund $1,800 of that amount.
The second request was for the Korean American Student Association’s annual banquet, which is the group’s biggest ticket event for the year and open to any member of the University community. Projects Board co-chair Naman Jain ’17 said that the KASA banquet has been very well attended by people all over campus for many years.
U-councilor Dan Mozley ’17 asked whether any event theoretically open to the entire student body could obtain funding through Projects Board. Mozley noted that he had been part of another group on campus that had trouble getting funding for a similar event, because not many people outside of the group were expected to come.
In response, Class of 2016 Deana Davoudiasl said the senate should try to do a better job advertising which campus groups aside from Projects Board, such as the East Asian studies department and the Davis International Center Advisory Board, are actually providing funds for big events.
This past week, Princeton Public Works held its first annual Arts Mixer. The event aimed to help visual artists on campus socialize and showcase their works.
While the event was originally supposed to take place in the University Art Museum, the location’s high rental costs caused the group to instead choose Murray-Dodge Cafe, according to USG social chair Simon Wu ’17.
Communications Committee design co-chair Lavinia Liang ’17 said that approximately 30 students attended the event, which lasted for a little over an hour. She described the mixer as a networking event for the visual arts community that is “kind of underground.”
Liang is a contributing columnist for the ‘Prince.’
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