Ethics the topic of town meeting
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers an open town meeting about ethics at Homewood.
- The News-Letter reported that about 40 students, faculty members and community members attended the meeting, which Deans Dan Weiss and John Bader hosted in Remson Hall.
- The paper reported that Senior Class President Stephen Goutman proposed the meeting; the article says he wanted community input on why students cheat and how to create change.
- The reporter writes that attendees focused on poor awareness of the ethics code and academic competition; Student Council President Anuj Mittal said, "The problem lies in not having knowledge of the existence of an honor code on campus," while Ethics Board member Jess Myers called for a community effort.
- The article adds that participants proposed stronger orientation policies, clearer rules, ethics contracts on exams and consistent reporting of violations; Mary Savage said few students know that law and medical schools take such violations seriously.
- The paper reported that students rejected a complete zero-tolerance policy; Ethics Board Chairman Benjy Silverman said he wanted students to learn from violations, and the review committee hoped to publish an ethics report the following year.