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How to report a bad check

The Community Relations Committee works closely with the staff at the Dean of Students Office to encourage students to clear up any bad checks. The procedure allows students every opportunity to pay their debt before facing some type of sanction. The Community Relations Committee's procedure is as follows:

  1. Merchants report the receipt of a bad check to Mary White, Secretary to the Honor and Judiciary Committees, at 924-7602.
  2. The student is immediately sent a notice that he has a bad check, and that it must be cleared up right away.
  3. If no receipt of the bad check being cleared is received after seven days, the student is sent a second notice saying that suspension will result if the check is not paid in two weeks. This suspension includes the loss of registered status with all current classes being terminated and will last as long as the check remains unpaid.
  4. The second notice also allows the student an opportunity for a hearing if he believes he has reason not to pay the bad check. The Vice Chair for Services (and sometimes another member of the Committee) conducts hearings.
  5. The student is suspended if the check is not paid.

These procedures are solely for those bad checks that probably lack dishonest intent to qualify as an Honor violation. Intentionally writing bad checks is an Honor offense and will be handled as one. The Vice Chair for Services acts as an Reporter of an Honor investigation that will seek to discover if the check was meant to defraud.