For as long as University of Virginia officials can remember, administrators have kept their distance from the student-run honor committee, which judges alleged violations of the school's 152-year-old honor code.
The hands-off approach has prevailed despite calls from critics every few years to curtail the students' power and soften the punishment they mete out in cases of cheating, stealing or lying: permanent expulsion from the university.
But this summer, university officials have acknowledged getting involved in the case of a Vienna man, saying the honor committee made a mistake when it booted out Christopher Leggett, who was accused of cheating on a computer science exam. …
The Washington Post; August 10, 1994
The Washington Post; June 7, 1998
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); February 7, 2000
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