By KC Hall
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February 23, 2005
Last night the University Board of Elections held a forum in which four student panelistsdebated the merits and faults of the single sanction.
The debate was moderated by University Judiciary Committee Judge Gavin Reddick and Tina Le, Honor Committee chair of single sanction forums.
Topics included strengths and weaknesses of the single sanction, its effect on the University's public image as well as the consensus clause in relation to single sanction, among other topics.
Honor Committee member Sara Page and Sam Leven, communications director for Hoos Against Single Sanction, voiced opposition against the single sanction policy.
Page said single sanction needs to be dynamic and put under regular scrutiny by the student body.
The students "are the ones who create these laws, and [the students] are the ones who embrace them," Page said.
Leven agreed, saying single sanction "violated several judicial principles," meaning one severe punishment is not appropriate for varying degrees of offenses.