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===Honor system===
{{Main|Honor system at the University of Virginia}}

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 |title = Honor Pledge<ref>[http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/code.html The Code of Honor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118221358/http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/code.html |date=January 18, 2015 }}, accessed December 15, 2014</ref>
 |quote = On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.}}

The nation's first codified honor system was instituted by UVA law professor [[Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.]] in 1842, after a fellow professor was shot to death on [[the Lawn]]. There are three tenets to the system: students simply must not [[lie]], [[cheating|cheat]], or [[theft|steal]]. For its first 180 years it was a "single sanction system", meaning that committing any of these three offenses would result in immediate expulsion from the university. In the spring of 2022, following decades of criticism and waning support, a proposal to replace the penalty of expulsion with a two-semester suspension passed a student referendum with over 80% of the vote and took effect immediately.

The honor system is intended to be student-run and student-administered.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Honor Committee | publisher = University of Virginia | url = http://www.virginia.edu/honor/ | date = December 11, 2006 | access-date = January 9, 2007 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061013105720/http://www.virginia.edu/honor/ | archive-date = October 13, 2006 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> If accused, students are tried before their peers—fellow students, never faculty, serve as counsel and jury. Although Honor Committee resources have been strained by mass cheating scandals such as a case in 2001 of 122 suspected cheaters over several years in a single large Physics survey course, and federal lawsuits have challenged the system, its verdicts are rarely overturned.<ref>{{cite news |author=Greta von Susteren |title=University of Virginia Tackles Cheating Head On |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/10/bp.00.html |work=[[CNN]] |date=May 10, 2001 |access-date=November 13, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127181118/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/10/bp.00.html |archive-date=November 27, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Meg Scheu|title=Judge Denies Call to Dismiss Lawsuit|url=http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/1999/07/judge-denies-call-to-dismiss-lawsuit|work=[[Cavalier Daily]]|date=June 22, 1999|access-date=November 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505025911/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/1999/07/judge-denies-call-to-dismiss-lawsuit|archive-date=May 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>In 1983 the Fourth Circuit rejected a challenge brought by an expelled law student, the [http://openjurist.org/719/f2d/69/henson-v-honor-committee-of-u-va-u Henson case] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020150/http://openjurist.org/719/f2d/69/henson-v-honor-committee-of-u-va-u |date=November 25, 2014 }}, concluding U VA's student-run honor system afforded sufficient due process to pass constitutional scrutiny.</ref> There is only one documented case of direct UVA administration interference in an honor system proceeding: the trial and subsequent retrial of student Christopher Leggett.<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert O' Harrow Jr. |title=Honor Case Causes Uproar at U-Va.; Some Angry Over Official Intervention, Student Panel's Unusual Reversal of Decision |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-905552.html |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=August 8, 1994 |access-date=November 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329042444/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-905552.html |archive-date=March 29, 2015 }}</ref>