Students have an opportunity to win prizes and enjoy free movie nights this week as The University of Alabama Academic Honor Council hosts its sixth annual Academic Integrity Week.

Beginning today, the week includes events that are designed to raise awareness of academic integrity on campus. The theme of this year’s Academic Integrity Week is “Champions don’t cheat. Choose Integrity.”

“Our university’s success on the football field attests to the integrity of the Crimson Tide,” Luke Lewis, president of the Academic Honor Council, said. “As members of the Capstone, it’s our duty to make sure that carries over into all aspects of our campus culture.”

According to the organization’s recent press release, the UA Academic Honor Council is a student organization that works with faculty members and students to increase the awareness of academic integrity and provide a student voice in matters related to academic integrity.

The council serves as a body of leaders who will uphold the high ethical standards required by all members of the community of scholars at The University of Alabama. The goal of the council is to encourage the campus community to act on the values of the Capstone Creed.

Academic Integrity week began as an effort to actively promote living with integrity, with an emphasis on academics.

“The best way for students to get involved is to simply show up and participate in as many events as they are willing that the Academic Honor Council puts on during Academic Integrity Week,” Drew Dolan, a graduate assistant in the Office of the Assistant Dean of Students, said. “We try to use events, such as movie night and the volleyball game, that college students are already inherently interested in, and then add an integrity-based to theme to it.”