During World War II, the War Advertising Council created posters in America that read “Loose lips might sink ships.”  The British employed a similar idiom, “Careless Talk Costs Lives.”  The phrases were meant to convey caution, that unguarded or careless...

To be honest in all things also means being honest…with ourselves.  But that’s a tricky phrase, and we must be careful about what it means.  Today, we often hear people say that you must “be true to yourself”—a paraphrase of...

One thing you may have noticed about the Honor Code’s commitment to honesty is that it demands that we be “honest in all things.”  But surely that cannot be right. What about the little lies, that don’t do anybody any harm?  If...

Our Honor Code starts with being “honest in all things.”  One might say that it embraces the spirit of the famous words, popularized by Benjamin Franklin, that “honesty is the best policy.”  As it turns out, however, that phrase first...

There is a danger in recognizing, as we did yesterday, that true honor—adherence to what is right—has little concern for the opinions of others.  The danger is that it could cause us to regard the Honor Code as a purely...

We’ve been talking about the Honor Code, but what is honor anyway?  You’ve probably heard the word used in one context or another: The National Honor Society for high-achieving high school students; the command to honor your father and mother; someone who...

So, our Honor Code is a statement of the ideal CCA student, written down to be constant and unchanging.  All well and good—but what exactly are we supposed to do with it?  Writing it down or even reciting it doesn’t...