Central State Students are opposing the honors program rule that has been in tack for years. Imagine being a diligent worker from your freshman year through your senior year and receiving one failing grade. By doing so students are no longer eligible to graduate with honors after many semesters of tedious work. A criterion that any student interested in joining and completing the honors program is a cumulative grade point average of 3.2. As an incoming freshman the requirements consist is a SAT score of 900, Act score of 21 and a grade point average of 3.0. By completing these requirements students are now eligible for recognition of being one of the elite students on campus.

Students that have received a failing grade are outraged that they will not be able to complete the program without a fight or petition. In order for a student to maneuver around the rule is to file a petition with the university that will change the grade of the course that was failed. Central State University Honors Program President James McCray expresses that “An honors student achieves a certain level of excellence; everyone stumbles at some point in time. However one grade should not define your college career.”

Although the criterion is strict for the honor student participants I think that they should have a chance to redeem themselves through a petition. One grade should not be the defining factor of a student graduating and receiving the recognition that they have worked for. Graduating with honors should be a completion of grade point average, and projects during the duration of college. The purpose of the honors program is to excel with academics, part of the process is to recognize your short coming and fix them so that you may move on and excel.