from principles of honor to encourage and promote a trusting relationship among the students. The honor system is also there to help students improve their own honor through self-discipline and to offer students the opportunity to exercise their responsibilities and democratic rule on campus. They also want to make the students more aware of their personal principles of honor (Hood). If every college and university in America adopted these principles, the students of today would be better prepared to deal with the adult world of tomorrow. In a sense, it would seem like the honor system promotes cheating since there are unproctored exams and unsupervised living quarters. However, the only way that this reasoning stands is if we have the assumption that college students have no morals and that the only reason they do not currently cheat is because they are afraid of getting caught and punished. In reality most students do not cheat because they know it is wrong and they know they will not get anywhere by cheating. Fortunately for us, most college students have realized that when they cheat, they are only hurting themselves.When students do cheat, it is usually because of a great deal of external pressure placed on them by parents and the work force. Students today have been raised in an environment where cheating is acceptable. Many parents even brag about cheating the Internal Revenue Service or about getting extra money back when making purchases. Whether parents realize this or not, that is a major factor in whether or not a person cheats in school. If a child sees their parents cheating in any sense of the word it merely reinforces the idea that cheating is not bad if they do not get caught. While the problem of cheating on college campuses will never go away, no matter how hard people try, it can be significantly reduced with the implementation of the honor system. It will take time to put into practice but once it is, t...
