The representatives who will sit on the Honor Committee and the University Judiciary Committee for the next year were announced by the University Board of Elections last night. Internal elections will take place within both committees in the coming month to choose committee chairs.
For the Honor Committee, second-year student Brandon Cuffy was elected to represent the Architecture School. Third-year students Jess Huang, Sophie Staples, Blaire Hawkins, Tyler Alexander and Kiefer Pirrung were chosen as College representatives. Third-year Charles Fellers was elected as the Darden representative, with third-years Ryann Burke and Christina Polenta being chosen to represent the Commerce School. Graduate student Erin Kallman and third-year student Thaddeus Darden were elected to represent the Engineering School, while Julie Caruccio was chosen to represent the Education School. From the Law School, second-year student Andrew Lloyd and first-year student Sarah Robertson were elected as representatives, and Jon Overdevest and Adam Trusner were elected as the graduate College representatives. From the Medical School and Nursing School, first-year Aaron Trimble and second-year Honour Alston were elected as the representatives, respectively.
"I'm really excited," Staples said of the election results. "Everyone who was elected is really qualified, and I'm looking forward to working with everyone this year. I'm hoping we'll have a chance to expand and diversify and really represent the College with our support-officer pool."
According to Pirrung, in the coming year, the Honor Committee will continue to improve its transparency, promote education by working with student leaders and continue to achieve the benefits of the honor system.
"Obviously, we have a duty to protect [students' identities] and not share details of the cases," Pirrung said, "But we would like to improve what people know about the honor system."
Alston, the nursing representative, noted the need to expand the honor system to include on-Grounds groups who may feel left out.
"I think that the education aspect needs to be improved upon; I feel like a lot of demographics are not addressed, not well informed," Alston said, adding that the Nursing School, with its physical separation from Central Grounds, often feels of the loop.
According to Trimble, Medical students have similar feelings toward the Honor Committee, which "doesn't seem too relevant to the Medical School," Trimble said. "I would like to change that and represent the feelings the Medical students have towards the Honor Committee."
Trimble added that some changes might have to be made to the Honor Committee's procedures to improve these areas of concern.
"I would like to see the way reporting is carried out a little more thoroughly," he said. "I think that could go a long way to improve accessibility to the honor system."
Staples noted that she will also work to improve the honor system by continuing to focus on benefits.
"I'm working to increase the number of flexible exams given to students," she said. "That's something I'm going to ... continue in the coming year."
According to Staples, the new Honor Committee will assume its duties April 7. In the meantime, she said, new representatives will be trained in the workings of the Committee.
Outgoing Honor Chair Ben Cooper noted that he is pleased with the results of this year's elections.
"I think everyone elected seems capable, and I look forward to working with them and making the transformation," Cooper said.
For UJC, third-year students Merriam Mikhail, Grayson Lambert and Laura Riggs were elected as representatives from the College, third-year students WilliamO'Flaherty and John Thornton were chosen from the Commerce School, and third-year Yiding Li and second-year Eric Schneiter were elected from the Engineering School. Tricie Crider and Michael Murphy were elected to represent the Darden School, third-year student Michael Chapman was chosen as the Education representative, and Alexandra Heller and Carey Mignerey were chosen to represent the Law School.
According to Lambert, UJC has a "great committee" for next year that "will look at making UJC a stronger, more effective body."
Thornton said he plans to maintain communication with Commerce students to accurately represent them on UJC.
"Generally the school is a little smaller and a little more personal, so it's a little easier to get in touch with students about UJC and see what they want out of UJC," Thornton said.
Outgoing UJC chair Connor Sullivan noted that he was satisfied with the election results.
"I thought that the races that were contested were between highly qualified candidates," Sullivan said. "I don't think it could have turned out badly, but I think it turned out very well. I'm eager to see how internal elections will go later this month, to see who will replace me."
According to Sullivan, UJC will transition April 1, and the executive positions will be elected at some point before that. In the meantime, he said, the current Executive Committee will conduct training for new judges and inform them of "everything a judge needs to know"
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