W&L Community Discusses Honor System’s Enforcement
Respondents to a student poll offer dozens of potential changes to the Honor System.
The Honor System, a defining feature of student life at Washington and Lee University, is a heavily debate dissue among the student body.
Many of its core components, including the Single Sanction, where all Honor Violations (HVs) result in the perpetrator being expelled, have elicited markedly opposing responses: being referred to by some as “extremely problematic,” yet retaining the support of just over half of respondents to The Spectator’s recent student poll.
W&L Community Discusses Honor System Reforms
Respondents to a student poll offer dozens of potential changes to the Honor System.
W&L Students Polled on Honor System
Respondents to a student poll remain mostly favorable on the Honor System, but question the Single Sanction and highlight other issues.
A Proactive Defense of the Traditional Honor System
The modern Honor System’s self-contradictory subjectivity can only be resolved by a return to its roots in objective morality.
The Evolution of the Honor System
W&L’s distinctive system draws on centuries of tradition and Robert E. Lee’s key contributions…
