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...Napoleon is more than just the stuff of legend. His accomplishments remain alive in France today. Though some say his control of the press, repression of opponents and creation of a secret police make Napoleon the godfather of totalitarianism, his record also includes founding the legal code, central bank, public administration, and higher education system on which the French still rely. Similarly, Napoleon also established France's Legion of Honor - then named himself to it almost immediately...
...Weinstein ’03 thinks he is Mekhi Phifer. “All I’m trying to say is that all my bitches need to be down with the 3-1-3,” said Weinstein, who has no numbers beginning with the area code 313 saved in his $200 Nokia cell phone...
...biggest problem with honor codes is that, well, they don’t work. If a student is a cheater, is it really feasible that putting his signature on a piece of paper is suddenly going to infuse him with integrity? I don’t think so—and neither, I suppose, do the nearly 50 ex-University of Virginia students who are now looking for a new school, after they made a travesty of their school’s vaunted honor code by cheating off each other in a physics class last year...
...feckless honor code or some other similar nostrum, then what...
...also institute a policy of publishing anonymous descriptions of cheating incidents in the school’s campus newspaper. And while individual students are not explicitly named as cheaters in print, actions like these help to change the atmosphere of cheating on campus—essential for honor codes to be effective. If three-quarters of students engage in cheating, signing an honor code in hand—but not in spirit—will do little to change the atmosphere of a college. If, on the other hand, students understood that they hurt one another, and themselves, by cheating...