In honor we trust?
"I really do think that the vast majority of people here are honorable.”
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"I really do think that the vast majority of people here are honorable.”
Many college students wouldn’t think twice before feigning illness or computer malfunctions to explain to a professor why an assignment is late. But at the University of Virginia, that could get you expelled.
During her freshman year, Julia Neufeld ’10 plagiarized her roommate’s computer code — and got away with it.
Each day during Dead Week, some of the 14 faculty, staff and student members of the Committee on Discipline (COD) assemble in West College around a long oval table. With Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, the committee chair, seated at the head of the table and an accused student accompanied by a single representative — usually a faculty member or dean — on one side of the table, the committee will hear cases and dole out punishments for infractions of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” (RRR).
Last January, Shafiq Kashmiri ’10 was working alone in his room on the final problem set for an upper-level engineering course when his phone rang. It was a classmate — someone who often struggled with work for the class — calling to ask for help with the assignment.