<p>Can anyone speak to the honor code at Bowdoin - </p>
<p>how prevalent is it in daily life of students?</p>
<p>are there self-scheduled exams?</p>
<p>Take home and/or unproctored exams?</p>
<p>general view of students about cheating/lying/stealing…is there enough integrity that someone would rather fail than be dishonest?</p>
<p>You are clearly also looking an Haverford. Any school that hypes up their honor code only does so because they have little else going on to be proud of (fighting words, I know). Every school has an honor code, and chances are, its strongly enforced by students at any academically rigorous school you look at. </p>
<p>Yes, there are self scheduled exams. </p>
<p>Yes, there are take homes and unproctored exams. </p>
<p>Bowdoin kids ain’t no lying cheaters.</p>
<p>no, Haverford not part of the equation :)</p>
<p>certainly wasn’t implying that about Bowdoin students.!!</p>
<p>Oh Clariano – poster is just kidding.</p>
<p>/ zar09 Before you dismiss a group of people or a belief system, I respectfully suggest that when you feel there is something glaringly illogical/irrational about someone else, to keep an open mind and consider the possibility that there may be a nuance/perspective you may not have recognized in your analysis. You may disagree and that’s fine but debates between rational people aren’t usually clear-cut and easy. After all, HC considers among its loyal alumni, within the last 10 years, the deans of faculty at Duke, Princeton (also Nobel winner) and Williams; the presidents of Cornell and Emory; the department heads of Chemistry at MIT, biomedical research at Johns Hopkins and graduate research at UCSF; in addition to chief editors of both the LA Times and the NY Times and 2 MacArthur Awardees. Such smart people aren’t easily duped.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine anyone at HC stating that students at other schools cheat or steal because they lack an honor code. If that’s the message you got on tour then that is very unfortunate and needs to be corrected at the source. As you stated, many schools have honor codes and that’s not what makes HC unique. Each school with an honor code conceptualizes it differently and, so, are differently implemented and this is what makes HC and the other schools potentially different. For example, Davidson’s and UVA’s are based upon a sense of southern honor and chivalry; military honor for the military academies; Athenian ideals of a perfect democratic society for Wellesley and Conn College; and Haverford’s is based upon its Quaker history and value of consensus and inner light. Are you familiar with how such ideas can be manifested in a campus culture? What is Bowdoin’s honor code based on and how does Bowdoin’s campus culture inform the implementation of its honor code? Football is played both in the US and Brazil but the game isn’t the same.</p>
<p>If the idea of “campus culture” and how it may impact such things is abstract for you, here’s 1 HC alum’s perspective on how campus culture affects classroom dynamics at HC and Williams where he teaches. Imagine then how campus culture and history influences something like an honor code…</p>
<p>[Building</a> for the Arts](<a href=“http://www.haverford.edu/publications/Fall%2006/buildingarts.htm]Building”>http://www.haverford.edu/publications/Fall%2006/buildingarts.htm)</p>
<p>Michael J. Lewis ’79 was an economics major at Haverford, but he now teaches art and architectural history at Williams College. He is the author of The Politics of the German Gothic Revival (1993); Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (2001); The Gothic Revival (2002); and a forthcoming survey history of American art and architecture; he is also a frequent contributor of architectural criticism to journals such as The New Criterion and Commentary….</p>
<p>Lewis’ own aesthetic awakening came in his senior year at Haverford, when he took a course on urban history at Bryn Mawr. Upon graduation, he secured a Fulbright Fellowship to study the reconstruction of Germany after World War II, then earned a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of Pennsylvania. After returning to Bryn Mawr for two years (1989-91) to teach the very course in urbanism that had sparked his professional interest, he served as a historian at the Canadian Center for Architecture before joining the Williams faculty in 1993. </p>
<p>When he got to Williams, Lewis says he assumed teaching at one highly selective liberal arts college would be pretty much like teaching at another, but he discovered that the cultures of Haverford and Williams were decidedly different, largely owing to their respective heritages. </p>
<p>“I tried doing exactly what had been done to me at Haverford and Bryn Mawr,” Lewis recalls. “I’d come in to class and say something like ‘Frank Lloyd Wright was a bad architect. Flat roofs leak, so that’s bad architecture.’ Then a student would say, ‘But, Mr. Lewis, is architecture just about keeping the rain out or is it about ideal form?’ When I got to Williams and I said ‘Frank Lloyd Wright is a bad architect,’ the students would just look at me and write it down. I could not push their buttons.” </p>
<p>Lewis came to believe that the difference between Haverford and Williams students was not a matter of intellect but of historical roots. </p>
<p>“Haverford and Bryn Mawr, while not religiously Quaker, have inherited the culture of a Quaker meeting house. Any moment, the spirit may move and someone will speak out. Williams is a Puritan culture. When I speak, I am Cotton Mather in his pulpit. There is a tremendous culture here of cordiality, the covenant of the camp. It may be the product of our remoteness. You don’t argue during the day with someone you’re sure to see that night.” …</p>
<p>(note, I don’t think the professor is implying students at Williams don’t have debates in class but rather it is likely that to stimulate such debates, they may need to be contexted and set up differently than through “confrontation” which is the norm at HC and plays a role in its honor code as well)</p>