Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported, Harper and Hugle were in contact with a Pole whom Harper knew by the code name of "the Minister." His real name is Zdzislaw Pryzchodzien. According to the mole, he is an official of the Polish Ministry of Machine Industry, but actually is an operative of the Polish intelligence agency, SB, which works closely with the Soviet...
...school's catalogue provides a detailed description of the honor system. "Each student acknowledges the obligation to report any violation of the honor code he or she has observed," it says. "Each person's obligation to the undergraduate student body as a whole transcends any reluctance to report another student." The catalogue addresses a student's "two-fold" responsibility, not only to himself but also to the academic community at large...
...catalogue's commandment-like tone notwithstanding, the honor code sounds reasonable: after all, if sums up the foundation on which academic institutions are based. Yet the realities of Princeton's system undermine the code's ideals...
...faculty members. Princeton's committee consists just of undergraduates. Of course Harvard's system has critics who question some of the hows and whys of the Ad Board's closed-door proceedings. Yet Princeton's system makes Harvard's seem more than tolerable. Harvard has no explicit honor code, though it of course encourages academic honesty and deals swift punishment to discovered plagiarists and cheats. But its methods lack the problems inherent in Princeton's student-run system...
DESPITE THE HONOR CODE, a number of Princeton students apparently think cheating isn't that bad after all, or is at least a risk worth taking. A 1978 Honor Poll revealed that 17.1 percent of students questioned said they had cheated on an exam. Clayton believes that, after the poll, the Honor Committee felt pressure from the university's faculty to convict a greater number of students...