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Upon entering UVA, each student pledges to act honorably and to hold fellow students to the same standard. According to the official website of the Honor Committee, an honor offense is defined as an intentional act of lying, cheating or stealing which warrants permanent dismissal from the university. To determine if an alleged offense meets the standard of an honor offense, a series of questions are asked: Was the act of lying, cheating or stealing committed? Was the act committed willfully or intentionally? Would open toleration of such an act impair the community of trust sufficiently enough to warrant permanent...
...system is one way in which Harvard can better fulfill these ends. Raising consciousness and accountability may not prevent a student from stealing a laptop, but if caught, the trial process may prevent him from stealing in the future. In addition, one would hope that if someone saw an act of theft, he or she would feel justified and comfortable in bringing the matter before the student-composed honor committee. If a student failed to do this and was later caught, he or she would be held responsible...
...than three months for a rape conviction when he killed Carpenter, confessed to the crime and said, "I told her that I...hated to kill her, but I had to so she wouldn't squeal on me." A clear indication, they contend, that he discerned the gravity of his act. The stay left Carpenter's family despondent. "This is not the way the justice system should be set up," said the victim's brother Mark Moseley, a former placekicker for the Washington Redskins...
DIED. LEAH RABIN, 72, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and blunt-spoken supporter of the Arab-Israeli peace process; of cancer; in Petach Tikva, Israel. Rabin's last public act was to ask Israeli leader Ehud Barak to send former Prime Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate with the Palestinians...
...Gore also set out his own recipe for the much-plugged national healing that George W. Bush has been invoking in his own cause. "In many ways the act of voting and having that vote counted is more important than who wins the majority of the votes that are cast, because whoever wins the victor will know that the American people have spoken with a voice made mighty by the whole of its integrity...