Chaffey College - Argus Yearbook (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)

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STUDENT HONOR COMMISSION ' I ' ll liring alHiUt a new high staiulard in honesty, a definite method for han- dling all cases of dishonesty was adopt- ed hy the faculty and student council on February 7 of this year. This (mo- gram was developed after a great deal of thought and research on the part of a faculty committee at the request of Director Charles J. Booth. With a desire to act with the greatest fairness to all. and to give the students a part in handling misdemeanors of all kinds — including the stealing of ]:)ooks and other articles from lockers and cars, as well as cheating and copying in tests — a student commission of five with a faculty adviser was chosen to act as judges in reported cases. The system, as worked out, is based entirely on the co-operation of the stu- dents themselves, as the six points of the test procedure illustrates. Embodied in this phase are the following meas- ures : the student is expected to be honest, and it is assumed that he is honest until otherwise proved ; definite aids are to be given to promote honesty during tests ; thought questions rather than memory cjuestions are to lie stressed ; all notebooks and papers will be kept by the instructor until all of them are in, or until the time limit is jiassed; notebook assignments are tc) l)e changed from year to year; there will be occasional open book tests. From the report of the committee which formulated the system which was adopted, it is found that indixidual cases of dishonesty, concerning which there can be no doul)t, shall be reported b}- the teacher concerned to the direc- tor, who shall be given all the facts. The director then shall have the student report to the student honor commission, at the same time giving to the commis- sion the facts of the case. The student honor commission shall consider the facts, and the student him- self shall be given an impartial hearing. The commission shall make whatever recommendations it deems advisable to the faculty committee on problem cases. This committee shall consider the rec- ommendation, and the final disciplinary measures shall be made liy the faculty committee. As soon as the policy was adopted, the first student committee, consisting of Leroy Civille, student body president. Wanda Oswald. A. V. S. president. Henry Doll, A. M. S. president, and Alice Holsclaw and ' illiam Skillman, mem- bers-at-large, ' as chosen. V. Skillman. . . Holsclaw. .1. Doll. W. Oswald, h. Civille [2i]