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- What three specific offenses violate the spirit and purpose of the Honor System?
Answer: Lying, cheating and stealing.
- By what method can these offenses best be prevented?
Answer: A system under which the students themselves assume the responsibility for fair play. This is known as the Honor System
- If an offense occurs, is it the primary responsibility of the Honor Council to detect and report it?
Answer: No.
- Whose responsibility is it?
Answer: It is the primarily responsibility of every individual in the student body and faculty.
- How can the student body best prevent lying, cheating and stealing in the school?
Answer: First, by having each student "play the game" as a sportsman should. Second, by making known to the Honor Council any offense or suspicious circumstance.
- What is the difference between "tattling" and reporting an Honor System offense?
Answer: "Tattling" is telling on a boy for some minor offense. It is done in bad spirit and is intended to harm the boy reported. Reporting an Honor System offense is a duty and responsibility of all. It is necessary to uphold the honor and maintain the spirit of the students and the school.
- How serious is failure to report an Honor System offense?
Answer: Failure to report an offense should be regarded as an offense in itself, as it violates the spirit of the Honor Code.
- Is there any possible benefit to the boy reported?
Answer: Yes. (a) It will give him a chance to clear himself, if he is innocent. (b) It may save the boy from future dishonorable acts by correcting him if he is guilty.
- If everyone knows that Honor System offenses will be reported to the Council, what effect will this assurance have on the students?
Answer: (a) It will make every boy feel that the Honor System is working and will increase respect for it. (b) It will prevent boys from committing offenses.
- Of what boys is the Honor Council composed, and how are they chosen?
Answer: The Honor Council is composed of representatives of each class, chosen by each class, and elected by secret ballot.
- What are the duties of the Council?
Answer: (a) To investigate every case reported; (b) to clear a boy if he is innocent and to recommend procedure if he is guilty.
- Is a boy necessarily expelled from school if he is found guilty of an Honor System offense?
Answer: A boy found guilty of an honor violation shall be subject to dismissal from school. Each case, however, is judged on its own merits.
- What are the conditions resulting in expulsion?
Answer: The second honor violation or the seriousness of the offense are such conditions.
- If a boy is heard to complain that cheating is going on in the school, what action should be taken?
Answer: He should be brought at once before the Council: (a) to give evidence in support of his statement; (b) to give reason for the statement, or if he has no reason, to apologize.
- If a boy is expelled for an honor offense, is this fact made public?
Answer: For the sake of the boy's future, and out of consideration for his parents, that is not done.
- What is the wording of the pledge put on test and examination papers?
Answer: On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid on this test.
- Is a test or examination paper considered pledged if the above pledge is not specifically given?
Answer: Yes. All tests and exams are under the Honor System and a boy's signature to such paper signifies that he has neither given nor received help.
- Why is the pledge written out on each test?
Answer: To call attention repeatedly to the Honor Code and to reinforce the idea every time a test or exam is taken.
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