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| Ethical Development To Be A Focus Of New Campus Program | ||||||
| CSULB Dean of Students Mike Hostetler and Academic Senate chair Wayne Dick addressed the A.S. Senate Wednesday to promote a program that is geared toward raising ethical awareness among students. | ||||||
| The Student Ethical Development program, as it has been dubbed, is a project that has been in the works for three years, started by the office of the dean of students and supported by the vice president for Student Services, Judicial Affairs, Student Life & Development and STARS/SOAR.� Hostetler hopes that this program will "raise student awareness of the fact that ethics and developing a philosophy of life are very important and should be a focus of each student in their college." | ||||||
| Several efforts are being made to urge ethical development among students including distributing ethics posters, pens, note pads, and mugs, as well as posting an ethics bulletin board in the Student Union. Perhaps the most significant change, however, will be the inclusion of an "Honors Pledge" that Hostetler and Dick endorse, which they hope will be added to all blue books and syllabi in the near future.� The pledge reads, "I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this assignment/examination," and will include a line that students can sign. | ||||||
| It is important to note here that it is not mandatory for students to sign their name and Hostetler noted that the implementation of this program "is not because of an ethics problem," but the fact that "the University should be a place that pushes an idealistic stance."� Hostetler, reading from a report he and Dick created, said that it is not "[the university's] goal to tell anyone what his or her overall ethical base and philosophy of life should be.� Each must decide on one's own. However, this takes serious reflection and active thinking to achieve." | ||||||
| According to Hostetler and Dick's report to the Senate, one "prime mission" of American higher education has been to develop a student's ethical and philosophical development, but this goal has been neglected "somewhere along path of history."� Dick added that "[we are trying] to build a culture of honesty," and the Senate agreed that this program is a good idea and henceforth adopted it. | ||||||
| In other news, several proposed bylaw amendments were brought before the Senate today in anticipation of the upcoming campus elections.� Richard Haller, executive director of A.S.I., pinpointed three important amendments that would be included on the ballots themselves, and the Senate noted a clarification regarding a previous discussion involving how much each candidate can spend and receive in contributions to their campaign.� The previous dispute was over whether students should be limited to spending a maximum of $500 or $1000 on their individual campaigns, but it turns out that students actually enjoy the benefit of unlimited campaign spending, and are only limited to a maximum of $500 in contributions. | ||||||
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