University Code of Conduct

First written down before the construction of the university the code of conduct is a living document, maintained by the Ibis scholars, that outlines strict behaviors for students, scholars, and what it refers to as laborers which has been expanded to mean anyone on the island who isn’t directly involved with the university. It controls what the proper methods of paying respect to the faculty is, uniforms for both the faculty and students, the use of various magics on university grounds, and provides for certain rights to the students including when meals must be made available. Specific punishments are also outlined in the code that vary from fines, to lashings, and potentially disbarment from the university, the punishments for faculty are significantly less severe usually only requiring a formal notice of violation. The first bylaw of the code is:

The university is a center of knowledge and scholarship and verifiable knowledge shall not be rejected on any basis of the nature of the person presenting it, any student found guilty of preventing a fellow student from scholarship on such a basis shall be disbarred from the university a member of the faculty who does the same shall have their vote on the university council revoked for a term no less than five years and no more than seven. Faculty charged with such action who are not eligible for the university council and will not be in the next three years shall instead be withheld pay for a period no longer than six months.

That bylaw along with the six others that were first written in the original document are considered the fundamental laws of the university and haven’t been changed since it was founded in 1055.