Trust and honesty are important facets of the IMSA community and few would argue that our community could thrive without them. A survey was recently distributed to 250 randomly-selected students and a different one was given to all 62 faculty members through campus mail. Questions on the student survey brought up issues of residential life honesty and trust, substance use, acade mic honesty and theft. Not many, as shown by the figures to the left. There is also some trust lost among the students.
Academic dishonesty is a common offense as shown in the figure to the right.
Christian Nokkentved, social science teacher, said he usually trusts his students, though he admitted that he might be somewhat na ve. The survey results suggest a majority of students fail to meet certain standards of trust and honesty. With students violating the trust of residential life staff on a nightly basis and regularly cheating on tests, there seems to be no easy solution to th e problem at hand.