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Professor Pipes also states that the Soviet physicians affiliated with IPPNW are government spokesmen. It is well understood that the Soviet physicians are not as independent of their government as are the American physicians. This is a reflection of our different ideologies and political systems. But we reject the notion that American physicians should not, therefore, work with their Soviet colleagues to educate the public on the medical consequences of nuclear war. We must accept these differences and pursue our mutual interest in survival for we are all linked by a common fate...
...right? Is the University, by virtue of its mandate to teach and pursue research, entitled to reject most over-sight by the surrounding community? Can Harvard figuratively slap a President in the face with impunity? Or has Harvard evolved into just another political entity in society, like a PAC or a lobbying group, differentiated from other political groups only by power and prestige...
...ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely on the enforceability of the rules rather than their substance...
...student representation on University committees increases annually. Sometimes this zeal for government spills over into areas not directly related to student affairs, such as the current efforts to tell the University where to put its endowment dollars. Why, then, in light of our passion for self-government, should we reject an honor code which is nothing if not an extension of autonomy...
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...