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HONOR COMMITTEE BY-LAWS
2006-2007
Effective December 3, 2006, forward

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the by-laws in use at the time a case is reported are the same by-laws to be used throughout the Honor process.  Copies of by-laws from prior academic years are available in the offices of the Honor Committee.  Capitalized terms in these by-laws shall have the meanings ascribed to them in Section VI (“Definitions”).

I. THE HONOR SYSTEM—PURPOSE, JURISDICTION, SPECIAL PROGRAMS

II. ORGANIZATION

A. Honor Committee

B. Executive Committee

C. Support Officers

D. Code of Ethics; Standards Panel

III. CONSCIENTIOUS RETRACTION

IV. PROCEDURES:  HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS

A. Report

B. Investigation

C. Investigative Panel

D. Psychological Hearings

E. Trial Request

F. Trial Panels

G. Pre-trial Conference

H. Trial Hearing

I. Effect of Guilty Verdicts and “LAGs”

J. Post-trial Proceedings

K. School of Continuing and Professional Studies

L. Registration Blocks and Transcript Holds; Degree Holds

M. Procedures on Bad Checks and Honor Debts

V. CONFIDENTIALITY

VI. DEFINITIONS