e states “On my honor I have neither given nor received aid in completing this assignment.” They also are responsible for taking any actions that will eliminate academic dishonesty and they may make suggestions to the Honor Commission that may improve the system. In these colleges, the system is totally student run. The Commission is a set number of students that is usually selected by the previous student Commission. In Haverford College, four students from each class are elected by their peers to serve on the Honor Council. The Honor Commission at North Dakota State University, however, is done a little differently. Under their system, the current commission selects three incoming freshman to start serving on the commission their sophomore year, which they will stay on until their fourth year. There is also one graduate student on the commission that is selected by the other members. The second method is likely to work better since the students are handpicked and there would be no election, which in schools usually ends up as popularity contest in the end. If the students are handpicked, they will probably take more pride in being on the committee and they will not be so easily corrupted by friends. They will also most likely have higher morals and less toleration of cheating than those that are selected by their peers. The honor system will also raise the maturity level of students at colleges and universities where the code is implemented. The trust that is placed in the students often rolls over into other parts of student life. In Kalamazoo College, the administration has even taken away Resident Advisors in dormitories, leaving students to work out all difficulties by themselves. This action will provide students with invaluable social skills that they would never learn in a classroom. Perhaps the administration of Hood College said it best when they stated that the basic aims of the honor system stems ...
