{"id":40824,"date":"2026-04-25T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=40824"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:40:28","slug":"honor-council-elections-results-and-remembering-academic-integrity-during-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/honor-council-elections-results-and-remembering-academic-integrity-during-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Council Elections Results and Maintaining Academic Integrity During Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Huge <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Congratulations<\/span> to the newest members of the Honor Council!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><strong>Nina McCarver<\/strong>\u00a0(2L Secretary; 3L Chief Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Jed McWherter<\/strong>\u00a0(2L Student Justice; 3L Associate Chief Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Singleton<\/strong>\u00a0(2L Student Justice; 3L Senior Student Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evan Czajkowski<\/strong>\u00a0(2L Student Justice; 3L Student Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theodore Helmhout<\/strong>\u00a0(2L Student Justice; 3L Student Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rob Jones <\/strong>(3L Student Justice)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trey Early <\/strong>(3L Student Justice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, as final exams approach, I want to take a moment to remind you of the Honor Code and your continuing duty as a Memphis Law student to report any conduct that raises a reasonable belief that a violation of the Honor Code has occurred. <em>See<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/law\/registrar\/academic_regulation_through_april_18_2025.pdf\">Honor Code<\/a> \u00a7 21.4(b)(14) (\u201cA student who fails to meet the duty to report is in violation of the honor code. . . .\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The Honor Council has the authority to investigate either an act of dishonesty or an act of misconduct. An act of dishonesty is a wrongful or improper act that questions a student\u2019s academic honesty or integrity. An act of misconduct is a wrongful, improper, or prohibited academic act. Acts of dishonesty and misconduct include, but are not limited to, the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheating.<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized assistance or collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>Plagiarism.<\/li>\n<li>Theft, misappropriation, or unauthorized possession of property.<\/li>\n<li>Compromising examination security.<\/li>\n<li>Deception and misrepresentation.<\/li>\n<li>Electronic dishonesty.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating academic dishonesty.<\/li>\n<li>Writing past the end of an examination.<\/li>\n<li>Failing to disclose admonitory incidents or misrepresentations on the law school application.<\/li>\n<li>Failing to disclose admonitory incidents while a law student.<\/li>\n<li>Knowingly referring false allegation(s).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best wishes on your exam preparation!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Riley Pearson<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Juris Doctor Candidate, May 2027<br \/>\nUniversity of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys\u00a0School of Law<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Secretary and Chief Justice Elect, Honor Council<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Research Assistant to Professor Kevin Smith and Professor Regina Hillman<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kaplan Student Representative<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Vice President, TACDL Student Chapter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"mailto:rcparson@memphis.edu\">rcparson@memphis.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">901.378.5257<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge Congratulations to the newest members of the Honor Council!\u00a0 Nina McCarver\u00a0(2L Secretary; 3L Chief Justice) David Jed McWherter\u00a0(2L Student Justice;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honor-council","category-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40830,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40824\/revisions\/40830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}