Proposed amendments to the White Book will shift responsibility for enforcing the Honor System away from elected representatives, creating two separate honor standards for law and undergraduate students.

Last week, the Executive Committee (EC) voted to approve a set of amendments to the White Book, the governing document of W&L’s Honor System. These changes would shift control of Closed Hearings away from the elected EC toward panels largely shaped by the accused students’ school.

The Spectator opposes these amendments because they would place enforcement of the Single Sanction in the hands of a body unwilling to uphold it, while undermining the principle of representative, peer-driven judgment. Furthermore, the amendment creates a two-tiered system of justice that softly bifurcates the undergraduate and Law student bodies.