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Honor Hearings

Because the Honor System is fully
student-operated, because the Honor System
exists for the students, because the Honor
System must be responsive to student feeling
on it, because the Honor System depends
entirely on the support of all students, it is
imperative that the body in charge of the
system, the Honor Committee, be as fully
aware of as much student opinion on the
system as possible at all times. There is
widespread dissatisfaction with the system as
it stands now, and until that dissatisfaction is
gratified the system is in jeopardy.

The Honor Committee has been working
strenuously to gratify those complaints and
problems of which it is aware, and only
recently it has instituted several procedural
and other reforms as a result. The Committee
is keenly aware, however, that its "job" has
just begun and that it must be certain that its
future actions are acceptable to the students.
Thus it has set up a series of public hearings
next Tuesday and Thursday and the following
Tuesday to give all students the opportunity
to air their views.

We encourage everyone who has any
questions about the system, as most people
invariably do, and everyone who has specific
proposals or complaints, to avail himself of
the opportunity afforded by the hearings (in
order to appear at a hearing, one must register
as much in advance of its date as possible).
The Honor System is, by far, the University's
most cherished tradition; every student who
decides to accept it by enrolling at the
University has a distinct obligation to see that
it is preserved for the benefit of his fellow
students and of those to come by taking an
active interest in its welfare.