Word: cammarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student interest in the formulation of college policies makes itself felt directly through the Cammarian Club--the Brown student government organization. Its two major projects at present are pushing through an honor system for the College and drawing up a report on all phases of college life, to be completed...
...working honor agreement was drawn up by the Cammarian Club and submitted to the faculty last winter. Faculty members were not opposed to the idea of an honor system at Brown, but agreed that at least 75 percent of the students would have to approve the plan in an all-College referendum before it could be put into effect. After a short campaign to publicize the honor system, the agreement was put to a student vote in March. Only 62 percent favored its adoption...
...Cammarian leaders were not deterred. After studying a comment section on the ballots, they discovered that very few who had voted against the system opposed it on principle. Most objections were aimed at certain clauses--such as the reporting clause--which existed in the specific agreement. A special Honor System Committee set up under the Club is now supervising trial applications of the honor system in a few freshman courses whose instructors favor the idea. If these experimental applications of the system meet with student approval, the Club will probably press for another vote. Next time it expects success...
...Cammarian Club, Brown's undergraduate student government, passed a unanimous resolution Friday urging the reinstatement of the editor of the Brown Daily Herald who had been put on probation for writing an article criticising a Dean's Office ruling...
...Providence, Brown's Cammarian Club, a form of student council, has also been considering the possibility of adopting the honor code. The Cammarian Club takes the same stand as Dartmouth's Council on the matter and would have the already existing Student Court act as the enforcement agency...