Graduate Honor Court is still without a chairperson or attorney general for next year
“I don’t know what will happen to the Honor System. That’s a question for GPSF leadership, and ultimately University administration."
“I don’t know what will happen to the Honor System. That’s a question for GPSF leadership, and ultimately University administration."
An appeal hearing took place on Tuesday for UNC doctoral student Maya Little, who was found guilty by the Honor Court in October of defacing Silent Sam. Little was sanctioned with a letter of warning and 18 hours of community service in her initial case hearing.
Little’s appeal argues that the initial judgement constituted a violation of her basic rights, insufficiency of evidence and severity of sanctions.
“Maya is the bravest person in Chapel Hill. She put herself on the line, knowing that she faces violence not only from white supremacists, but also the police."
The boycott includes 36 professors, almost 140 graduate students, many of whom work as teaching assistants and in other positions, and a handful of other University members.
After being caught with under an ounce of marijuana, one student said she turned to stripping to cover the hundreds of dollars in fees and court costs. “My friends were stripping at a club, and you can make a lot of money doing that," she said. "So, I did it to make the money I needed.” In one night, she earned all the money to pay for her drug citation. It was her first time stripping, but it wouldn’t be her last.
The UNC Graduate and Professional Student Honor Court's high-profile trial of Maya Little has risen again in the community, but this time to question how objective one of the judges was.
Graduate student Maya Little walked out of her Honor Court hearing Friday afternoon. Here's why.
“I don’t think there is any University interest in charging a student for raising awareness and contextualizing the University’s history of white supremacy.”
As Maya Little awaits her verdict from the Graduate and Professional Honor Court, it has been discovered that UNC law student Frank Pray, one of the five adjudicators that will decide Little’s fate, has made public comments on Silent Sam in a number of contexts.
Maya Little, a UNC student found criminally guilty of defacing the public monument Silent Sam began her student-led Honor Court trial this afternoon.
On Monday, the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy released a statement condemning Silent Sam and supporting the students affected by the protest.
26 people have been arrested since Silent Sam was toppled on Aug. 20.
The UNC Honor Court has increased its efficiency by 25 percent since last year, meaning that students get in and out of the system almost two weeks faster.
Schools in the UNC system have cracked down on fraternities for violating student codes of conduct after a series of deaths at fraternities in 2017.
Selling student basketball tickets, including coveted Duke tickets, is considered a University policy violation and subject to punishment by honor court.
Fifty-six percent of academic cases in the University’s Honor Court concern students of color, said Honor Court Vice Chairperson Marty Davidson at the Feb. 19 Faculty Council meeting — a disproportionate figure compared to UNC’s 63 percent white campus
Two UNC students can be arrested for the same crime, go through the same Honor Court proceedings and receive completely different punishments.
After the state budget passed in September, some say a shift in control of funding for North Carolina’s public defenders might have passed through the legislature without a fair trial.
Will Almquist is a senior from Charlotte. He came to UNC as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and served on the undergraduate Honor Court for two years before being named chairperson in March. He spoke with Daily Tar Heel staff writer Anna Freeman to discuss his experiences and thoughts on the Honor Court after assuming a leadership role.