Honor Council
I returned to school after a few relaxing weeks at home. I came back ready to begin off-season football training and to take on a new set of classes. I was also eager to find out my grade in inorganic chemistry. I had just dropped off my bags in my dorm when I got a phone call from a senior who was the head of the Richmond College Honor Council. The honor council was a student group that, under the direction of a faculty adviser, examined cases of students who were accused of violating the school’s honor code. I figured that he was going to ask me to be a member of the council. Wow, that’s pretty cool, I thought. And I’m only a freshman. I was busy with football and schoolwork, but I thought this would be a good chance to get noticed on campus for something besides the gridiron. I entered the room and exchanged greetings with two honor council members. The next words I heard were so shocking that for a moment I thought they were spoken in a foreign language. The council told me I had been accused of cheating in Dr. Myers’s Inorganic Chemistry class. Time stopped while I tried to figure out what was going on. The council members looked genuinely concerned, but I could also tell by the looks on their faces that they thought I was guilty. 40
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