The UVA student body has opted to save “single sanction,” referring to the only punishment for honor code violations: permanent expulsion. Critics of the system got a referendum on the ballot for spring elections, asking whether single sanction should be abolished in favor of tiered consequences. Though the resolution would be nonbinding, it would have brought a formal change to the ballot next year for referendum.
But supporters of single sanction won by the slim margin of 62 votes after the results were tallied: 50.5 percent of the 6,476 votes were cast against the multitier system. Turnout in the election tilted toward undergrads, of whom 42 percent cast ballots compared with only 21 percent of grad students.
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