This report has been posted by the Student-Faculty Honor Committee pursuant to section 1.100(4) of the Honor Code.
On March 7, 2014, the Committee voted to approve a settlement negotiated by the accused student and the Prosecutor pursuant to § 1.060(2) of the Code. The charge against the student was that the student violated § 1.020(1)(A) of the Code by engaging in conduct intended to gain an unfair advantage for another student. More specifically, the charge was that the student kept a copy of the student’s final examination answers in violation of the exam instructions and later gave a copy of his answers to a student taking the same course in a later semester.
As part of the settlement agreement, the student admitted that the student violated the Code. No formal sanctions were imposed on the student for the violation. One reason is that the student acted negligently rather than in bad faith and accepted responsibility for the conduct at issue. Another reason is that the violation has collateral consequences that in effect amount to an appropriate sanction for the conduct. Those consequences include the need for the student to disclose the violation when the student applies for admission to the bar, the inclusion of the settlement agreement in the student’s permanent record, and the admissibility of the settlement agreement if any Honor Code proceedings are instituted against the student in the future.