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...about the same amount of space allotted to the section on “Nonpayment of Telephone Bills.”This is more than a mere inequity in distribution of handbook space: It is indicative of the emphasis that Harvard places on the role of honor and integrity in the life of students. The fact that the handbook devotes much space to detailing disciplinary procedures and possible punishments, but essentially none to addressing the underlying problem of dishonesty shows that the College administration has chosen to address the symptoms and not the illness. To actually address the core...
...working on her second book. My heart froze, it took my breath away. A voice inside my head said “we don’t belong here—she cannot compete with these students.” During the senior year my daughter served on the honor council and had to present evidence against her best friend. She did so, knowing that she would lose a young man who meant the world to her for five years of daily phone calls, instant messages and zany, ridiculous outings. He spent the night before the hearing apologizing...
...TABLESThe Internet makes it easier for students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have been trying to do and they have failed. This is the only technology that works to stop student plagiarism,” said Barrie, who started TurnItIn in 1996. Barrie added that Harvard would benefit from TurnItIn...
Derek C. Bok’s ascension to Harvard’s top post could revive the debate over a College honor code. The incoming interim president has praised such codes in two of his own books.In his 1990 book “Universities and the Future of America,” Bok wrote, “Perhaps the greatest benefit of honor systems is the stimulus they give students to think about their own moral responsibility and to discuss the subject among themselves. This is such an important advantage that one wonders why more colleges have not adopted...
...honor of her extensive accomplishments in technical theater, Goldman has been awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts by the Office of the Arts...