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Killing Honor

Lying is lying is lying. But lying is
dishonorable only when the offense is
committed in Charlottesville or Albemarle
County: so says the Honor Committee. Now
the Committee has gone so far as to state
that the "moral sense of the current student
community" does not consider lying about
one's age in order to obtain liquor
dishonorable.

How far will the Committee go in this
destruction particulatim of the Honor
System? I can not believe that the majority
of the student community supports this
latest assault on the spirit of the Honor
System: there must be a resounding demand
for immediate reversal of the Committee's
latest decision, which can have only the
most devastating effect upon the "credibility"
of the Honor System.