Comments | xmatt: 365 degrees

xmatt

365 degrees

Aug 20, 2005 12:21

Okay, stuff is taken care of here in Portland. It's been a nice week of doing nothing, and tomorrow I shall return to Wesleyan. I've realized that I'm going to be pretty busy at school this coming year, between ( Read more... )

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fatima109 August 20 2005, 16:41:34 UTC

geez. you're only taking four credits a semester, right?

xmatt August 20 2005, 16:54:26 UTC

This semester, yes. I might have to or want to take 4.5 or 4.75 like I did last semester though. Thanks to that, and to AP credits, I'm a whole semester ahead credit-wise.

fatima109 August 21 2005, 00:58:36 UTC

1. geez. 2. that's good.

ayellowrose August 20 2005, 21:38:03 UTC

Wow you got on the Honor Board? Congratulations. I interviewed but was unsuccessful. :( If a spot ever opens up let me know, because I would still love to be on it.

odin714 August 21 2005, 08:23:58 UTC

HONOR BOARD? But...but...you're THE MAN NOW!!!

Out of curiosity - and I don't mean this caustically at all - why would you want to sit on it?

xmatt August 21 2005, 12:44:16 UTC

Well, actually, it's not really "the man" at all. The administration has been slowly dismantling the various institutions where students can govern themselves (including the nerfing a lot of the SJB's authority), but the honor board is still intact. And it isn't just to persecute students who are cheating, there can be times where professors unilaterally decide to to act as judge, jury, and executioner in deciding someone has cheated, and in that case the student could invoke their right to a hearing by their peers.

Mostly though, it just seemed like an interesting intellectual challenge.

odin714 August 21 2005, 19:05:38 UTC

you're completely right, and it's quite comforting to know you'll be on it. as someone who was the victim of said judge/jury/executioner, it's nice to know.