Honor Code

I think that the idea of an honor code is great and I also think that the students decided their own rules at their school is also a very good idea. However, a very good point was raised in class last Friday, and that was that we as college students and young adults should not need an honor code. The teachers should be able to trust us, especially when we are at a small school at Ursinus, that has a small community, where the teachers get to know us better as individuals. At a school like Ursinus, the students should want to better themselves and not feel like they need to cheat both in the class and themselves. Especially since we are supposed to be seen as responsible young adults, we should not feel that it would be appropriate to cheat. We are no longer is high school, there are now even higher expectations for us as students. We are supposed to be getting ready to enter the real world and preparing to get a real job. We should know by now that cheating is only a detriment to us as scholars. We as older students should want to be able to succeed in life without cheating. If you really want to be a doctor, get into medical school, and help people you should not cheat. If you were to cheat then you would be either indirectly or directly (in the future) be damaging your patients. By this time in our lives we should not be sacrificing our integrity.