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E-PrinceThe majority's effort to grapple with the ethical question posed by psychostimulants like Adderall is admirable and necessary in a community that values academic integrity. Any attempt to have the Honor Code address the use of such substances, however ...(back to the article)
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An honor code that doesn't consider "theft" a violation is not worthy of the name.
It didn't consider theft a violation when you were a student either.
I know that. It wasn't an honor code then either. It's an academic code, that they try and attach the word "honor" to it is a joke.
At the risk of sounding petty, Crusty Alum, can't the same be said for almost every academic "honor" code in this country? Or am I just missing something here?
I don't think you sound petty at all Huzzah. The same could be said for all "honor codes" that are only academic in nature. I just hold PU to a higher standard. Those other codes, and Princeton's, should be "honest" and just call themselves an "Academic Code". There's nothing wrong with that, it just doesn't have the patina that true "Honor Codes" or "Honor Systems" have. That the school tries to pretend it has an honor code is dishonest. In my mind, there are very few schools that have a true honor code -- the service academies, Washington & Lee University, and UVA all come to mind.
"Certainly, illegal Adderall use gives an advantage to students willing to violate the law; theft of non-circulating reference materials from University libraries, however, confers the same advantage and is not an Honor Code violation."
You just proved that stealing books from the library is a violation of the honor code (it's an unfair advantage) - you failed to prove that adderall is not against the honor code.