What is an Honor Violation? The White Book Can’t Tell You.
To save the Honor System, we must reintroduce an objective foundation of morality and truth.
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.

