Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN A. MICHAEL SPENCE, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, commissioned a study this summer of honor codes at colleges across the nation, some undergraduates wondered just what the dean had up his sleeve...
Spence assured those who asked that he merely found the topic compelling and that he had no preconceived plans to bring an honor code to Harvard. But some students could not help but question why the dean would spend time and money to investigate such a system for nothing more than his own personal edification...
...Wetherby: 10:30, 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Cocoon: 7:20, 10; Joshua Then And Now: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:15; Creator: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Prizzi's Honor: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Maxie...
...summer camp and the very possibility that we might have to report someone who we may be friends with, someone we may have had meals with or sat next to in class makes us recoil from the notion of handling our own affairs. A typical response to the honor code proposal is: if someone cheats its his or her business; in the long run, they are the loser. But are they? The best response to this argument was provided by a fellow Crimson editor when he said: under the current system, if you cheat and don't get caught...
What's true outside the walls of academe is no less true within. Rules and regulations are, more often than not, for the benefit of the community but they are only as good as those upholding them. To reject an honor code because of the burdens enforcing it imposes on us means we like freedom but the type that is free of responsibility...