A. REPORT INITIATION (Language modified, October 16, 2005)

Purpose: The Honor Committee does not exist to police the student body. Instead, it adjudicates allegations that members of the community bring to its attention. The act of bringing a possible honor offense to the attention of the Honor Committee is called a "report" n "initiation." (Language modified, October 16, 2005)

1. Any person may report initiate honor proceedings against any other person who meets the criteria set forth in Subsection IV.A.2., below. To do so, the reporting witness initiator should contact either an Honor advisor or a Committee member.

2. All reports initiations must conform to the following guidelines:

a. the person whose conduct is in question must have been registered as a student at the University of Virginia at the time of the alleged incident, and

b. the report initiation must occur within two years of the alleged incident.

If those criteria are not satisfied, the Vice-Chair for Investigations should drop the case.

3. Students cannot be re-investigated for an offense if a trial panel has previously acquitted them. Cases dropped by the Investigative Panel may be reinvestigated if:

a. a new report initiation is filed,

b. the Executive Committee determines, prior to an accusation, that either this new report initiation entails new evidence, or that the previous investigation was conducted in bad faith, and

c. the Executive Committee determines that the new evidence or bad faith investigation could have affected the outcome of the original Investigative Panel.

4. Throughout the entire Honor System process, the reporting witness initiator and the investigated student will each be assigned one advisor by the Vice Chair for Investigations.

5. Within a reasonable amount of time after the report initiation of a case, two counsel will be assigned to the case by the Vice Chair for Investigations.