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Last week in The Crimson, Tehshik P. Yoon '96 naively called for the introduction of an honor code in the College. In his idyllic vision of a Harvard based on personal honor, Mr. Yoon too lightly dismisses the stereotypical image of the blood-thirsty pre-med willing to do anything for an A. From my experience, this caricature is far closer to the truth than Mr. Yoon admits...
With an honor code, an intelligent student would be able to cheat, knowing that he will never be detected. Seventy percent of Harvard students were valedictorians in high school, but far fewer are Group I now. It would seem very tempting for students to reclaim the academic success that once came so naturally by bending the rules just a little...
...honor code could work anywhere, it would be at the nation's military academies. There academic and moral training extends 24 hours a day. The honor code of the Naval Academy is simple: "a midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal...
...Naval Academy cannot make an honor code work, it seems unlikely that "a brief statement about morality, conscience and academic duty to be printed somewhere in the Handbook for Students" along with a short inscription on the inside of each blue book will be an effective substitute for the watchful eye of Mother Harvard...
...give up until I get one." Her lawyers plowed right into the legal obstacles that precede the Feb. 23 competition. Last week the U.S.O.C. called a hearing in Norway on Feb. 15 requiring Harding to respond to charges that she not only failed to live up to the Olympic code of conduct but participated in the crime or failed to report her knowledge of it. The result could have led to her expulsion from the Games. Harding struck back by asking for a temporary restraining order -- and filing a $25 million lawsuit. On Friday a circuit-court judge in Oregon...