A member of the Student Body has withdrawn after the Executive Committee found him/her guilty of an Honor Violation in a closed hearing. The Executive Committee determined in the closed hearing that the student violated the community's trust by plagiarizing his/her English paper. The student used a scholar's words without quotation marks or attribution, paraphrased without giving proper attribution, and the student's argument closely mirrored the uncited work for multiple pages of the paper.
In the student's defense, he/she said that he/she was sick, busy with school work, used many sources and did not intend to plagiarize the paper. However, the Executive Committee determined through credible evidence and deliberation that the student violated the community's trust by plagiarizing his/her paper.