When faculty members are told the outcome, they realize they didn't send a case into a deep, dark, black hole. They see that, by God, something happened. So will the community at large. Traditionally, a summary of violations has been reported just once a year. If the new charter is approved, cases will be reported regularly, possibly in the Daily and the Stanford Report .
Publicity can accomplish a lot.
Davis students who cheat can also be required to take out ads or write anonymous letters to the campus newspaper describing what led them to cheat. It may sound hokey, but it works. Only one point has proved conten-tious. One can argue that when there was a single person deciding your fate, you wanted an extremely high burden of proof. Maybe now with a committee, students will feel their rights are protected.