Not every act that is illegal is a violation of the Honor Code, and not every legal act is permissible under the Code. 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. The distinction between the law and the Honor Code is critical and must be preserved.
The performance-enhancing properties of these drugs do not per se provide cause for their ban. Coffee, energy drinks and caffeine pills may act on the body in a different way than drugs such as Adderall do, but each can enhance academic performance. Energy drinks for instance, claim to prolong the time one is able to study. The majority does not justify its position that one form of performance enhancement is inherently more objectionable than the other. Unprescribed pyschostimulant use cannot logically be made an Honor Code violation without revising currently accepted notions of academic integrity.
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