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College Honor Systems

Honor is a particular objective concept. There is horizontal honor. There is vertical honor.

If someone is a private in the Army, there is Horizontal Honor. There is an equality. All privates graduated basic training.
If someone nicks your kit, you make sure you nick somebody else's.
Always be first in the queue when the grub's up and then eat it quick so you can go round and have some more.
Never volunteer.
Always look after number one.
If someone drops you in it, make sure you drop them in it.
 
Judge not, lest ye be judged, ammirite?
Indeed:

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?​
 
Indeed:

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?​

Breaking the law in Torah may have been a death sentence.

There is Judgement, like Judging someone unto death. The wages of sin are death.

There is judgement as in vanity.

There is chastising and rebuking. To chastise and rebuke there was a standard. Did you understand the standard?

The standard at a University may have been "Don't cheat or plagiarize." Given someone cheated or plagiarized, and they replied back "judge not," it doesn't fit. Doesn't work. They just get kicked out.....or the school was corrupt and dishonorable.

Christianity is standards based. Someone was a fail or a pass. They were in darkness or the light of the Lord. (Ephesians 5:8) Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves. Was someone.....missing the mark?
 
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An incident at Brown University attracted some attention last Spring:

For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm this spring. Quite a few students had expressed anxiety about being in a classroom after a gunman killed two students and injured nine in a December mass shooting at Brown, and so “it was appropriate,” he said, to allow students to take their exams at home.
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His welfare economics class typically attracted up to 30 students, but this spring he taught 86—an increase he attributes to the promised take-home exams. When the midterm came along, the average score was 96 percent.

Given that the historical average for the midterm had been 65%-80%, he suspected cheating via AI, so he changed the rules so the final would be in-person only. A bunch of students immediately dropped the class and nine others didn't bother showing up for the final. Of the students who did show up for the final, none scored higher than they had on the midterm, and only two came within 10 points. Two students who scored 100 on the midterm got a zero on the final.
 

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