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Thursday, September 21, 2000 The Official Campus Newspaper Volume 4 No. 1
Gardner-Webb Honor Code gets
new emphasis from students
Pilot photo by Jessica Webb
Hannah Woody, (r) Student Government Association president and Andy Polk, SGA vice-president, prepare to hang a copy of the Gardner-Wehh
University Honor Code in a classroom as part of a new emphasis on integrity and character building.
Jessica Webb
Pilot staff
If you have noticed the
new, blue and red plaques
hanging in your classroom,
you have probably wondered
what they were. Maybe you
have even walked over to
read it or sat close enough to
read the phrase “My Honor
is my Life.” If you are a
freshman, you have had it
explained to you in your
University 101 class.
Whatever the case may be,
the Honor Code is now
prominently displayed in all
classrooms.
This project, started by
Student Government
Association president,
Hannah Woody, is an effort
to increase the awareness of
cheating on campus.
“Now everyone has a
chance to see the code, even
if they don’t care,” said
Woody.
Woody began to think
about the project this sum
mer. She designed it with the
help of Dean of Academics,
Dr. Gil Blackburn.
First, Woody decided to
change the way the Honor
Code was signed.
In past years, the Honor
Code has been signed during
registration, when incoming
students are bombarded with
information and rushed
through long lines. This
year, the Honor Code was
explained by an executive
officer of SGA during
University 101 classes, for
merly called CCXP.
If the student agrees to
the policy, he or she then
signs the pledge. In cases
where students do not agree,
the student must sign the
back of the pledge stating the
disagreement.
All pledges are
filed in the
Student
Development
office.
Secondly,
she decided that
the code needed to be visual.
With a little help from
Administrative Assistant,
Vicki Webb-Morrison, the
SGA officers put the plaques
together and hung them in
every classroom.
“Maybe seeing the code
during a test will cause peo
ple To think twice about
cheating,” Woody said.
Woody, along with the
SGA officers, thinks the
Honor Code is important,
especially to a school that
boasts character building.
“If we as
an institution
can build
integrity, it
will last
throughout
[the students]
life and we
will have accomplished the
goal for this project,” said
SGA vice-president, Andy
Polk.
According to Bruce
Moore, Dean* of Student
Development, there are three
types of cheating on campus.
The first is blatant cheating
with a cheat sheet. The sec
ond is cheating that occurs
during Dimensions. This can
occur in two ways: 1) by
someone swiping his or her
card and then leaving, 2) by
swiping someone else’s card
for them. The third area of
cheating is plagiarism.
“Now everyone has a
chance to see the code,
even if they don’t care,”
SGA President Hannah Woody