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Spence stressed that the study is for informational purposes only, and that he has no plans to implement any new system. But he did say, however, that having an honor code might be less expensive than the current set-up, because it would save thousands of dollars Harvard pays exam proctors...
...past three months Secretary to the Faculty John R. Marquand and his summer assistant, Brian R. Melendez '86, compiled data from the 68 colleges that responded to the questionnaire. According to Melendez, about half of the responding colleges and universities had some form of honor code...
Marquand said the colleges responding to the study have honor systems ranging from those that bar plagiarism to those that consider it a violation to bounce a check. Harvard, Columbia, and Yale are the only Ivy League schools with no form of honor code. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania (which has proctored exams), and Spence's alma mater, Princeton, all have some type of honor code...
...Honor Code: A. Michael Spence, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, last spring asked for a study of colleges across the country to weigh the merits of an honor code and to determine whether Harvard might benefit from such a system (see story, page...
...alma mater. His concerns lie in students' obligation to turn in their peers for cheating--"self-policing" as Jewett terms it. He said he will be interested to hear from students on this issue, "since it will only work if students honor it," and stressed that an honor code is unlikely to be implemented unless students give it "overwhelming support...