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From: ln63szb@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments (Honor System)
Message-ID: <854@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 06:09:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcc13.854
Posted: Sat May  9 06:09:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 03:59:14 EDT
References: <263@rruxa.UUCP> <1466@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Reply-To: ln63szb@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Grobbins)
Organization: U.C. San Diego
Lines: 15
Keywords: cheating, honor systems
Summary: is required snitching reasonable?

In article <1466@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> dam@uvacs.UUCP (Dave Montuori) writes:
>The four basic tenets of the Jeffersonian honor system, as originally
>defined, are:
>                 I will not lie.
>                 I will not cheat.
>                 I will not steal.
>                 I *will* report anyone I see doing so.

This last rule is the one that bothers me.  While I realize it may
be fundamental to the success of an honor code, it seems that it is
not a fair responsibility to place on students.  The first three
require a student to be an honest student; the last requires him to
be a judge and possibly an executioner.

Grobbins.