<p>Hard to say.</p>
<p>As I read the procedure, there is an all-campus “Plenary” meeting that requires a 40% quorum to pass resolutions and approve the Honor Code. Assuming this quorum is achieved (they had to close the library and computer labs to force students to attend in 2000), then students must return their vote cards by a certain date to ratify the Honor Code. An insufficient number of vote cards were returned in 2000, 2002, and now this year.</p>
<p>From the articles, it sounds like this Plenary meeting is not much fun. Four hours of sitting in the field house on a Sunday night listening to a few dozen super gung-ho students debate resolutions ad infinitum before voting on the Honor Code sometime after midnight. I don’t find it terribly surprising that the student body as a whole has disengaged from the process and expresses that disengagement by not returning the vote cards the following week.</p>