What’s it to Me?
Honor 4-1
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Training Objective
• Task: Introduce honor as an important
component of your everyday life
• Condition: Deliver material in a classroom
environment by the Company Honor Rep and
discuss scenarios based upon the Honor Code
• Standard: Review questions based upon
material in the lesson and your real world
experiences
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What do I know?
• Through your basic knowledge of the Honor Code,
Honor System, and your short time as a cadet, you
have begun your growth into living as an honorable
person
• You can now continue to grow by learning the
necessary mindset you must acquire and accept in
order to live honorably for the remainder of your life
• You will be provided with methods to help prevent
you from getting yourself into trouble
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Mindset
• STIC
– Suffer. The. Immediate. Consequence.
• When faced with a decision that could compromise
your honor, you must understand the immediate
consequence is always better than ruining your
college career and everything you have invested into
The Citadel.
• Stick to what you know to be the right decision, you
will not let yourself down in the long run
• One wrong decision is all it takes to compromise your
honor and ruin your career at The Citadel
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Method
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If you ever feel trapped and find yourself in a potential
honor situation...
Talk to the teacher
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Many Honor Violations could be prevented if the cadet had contacted
the professor and communicated the situation
Often times, teachers will understand you are in a stressful situation
and try to help you
You must complete the task honorably, no matter what restraints are
upon you
Ask your Honor Rep
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Many Honor Violations outside of the classroom could be prevented
had the cadet confronted their Honor Rep prior to committing the
Honor Violation
When you are unsure, you must ask
“I didn’t know” is NEVER an excuse
Common Areas of Concern
• Lying
– Serves as the most common accusations of the 4 parts of the Honor Code
– Instill the mindset to STIC and always tell the truth
• Plagiarism
– Understand the format the teacher is asking for
– Know how to properly cite your sources
– Go to the Academic Support Center
• Even if you feel “pretty sure,” the ACS is available to help you to prevent any errors
• Fake ID’s
– Trash It
– The use of any document, on or off campus, to misrepresent one’s identity or
status to gain a benefit that one would not have received without the
misrepresentation will be considered and treated as a false official statement.
– Honor Manual Page 2, Section III, 5, a, 2
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Scenario
• You went out of town for the weekend. Though
expecting to return Sunday morning, you had car
trouble and did not return until Sunday night at
2200. Stressed from the day, when walking into your
room, you realize you have forgotten about the 5
page research paper due at 0800 the next morning.
You have not done any research and know there is
no way you can finish the paper and are going to fail.
You question copying and pasting large paragraphs
from the internet in order to fill 5 pages.
What should you do?
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STIC
• Suffer. The. Immediate. Consequence. If you feel it is
too late to contact the professor, work the best you
can to complete the assignment, without comprising
your honor. Regardless of the grade you will receive,
putting yourself at risk of an Honor Violation is
NEVER the answer.
• If this seems simple, good. Know situations like this
are common honor accusations and happen often.
On many occasions, the right thing to do seems very
clear, yet the cadet chose otherwise.
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Scenario
• Your roommate goes out on leave after Friday
parade. While getting ready to go out yourself, your
roommate calls and tells you he forgot to sign-out.
He’s already walked out of the gates and is sitting at
the bus stop near Capers Hall. He gives you his
Lesene Gateway username and password and simply
asks for you to sign out for him.
What do you do?
What should you tell him to do?
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Think Honorably
• Though it may be seem easy to sign out for
your roommate, you are lying if you sign out
for him. You must tell him that you refuse to
sign out for him and that he must return to
campus and sign out properly.
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Scenario
• You and your roommate decide to ‘hit King Street’
with some buddies from CofC. You all meet up and
go to an 18 or older club. Fortunately, everyone is 18.
At the door your roommate realizes he left his ID
back in his room on campus. Thankfully he looks very
similar to his CofC friend who has already gotten in.
The bouncer is not looking so your friend asks to use
the CofC friends ID. Since the CofC friend is not a
cadet, and the ID your roommate is trying to use is a
real ID, you assume this is not an Honor Violation.
Are you correct?
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WRONG
• This is an Honor Violation. The Honor Manual
states a false official statement as “The use of
any document, on or off campus, to
misrepresent one’s identity...”. As a result,
whether the ID belonged to a cadet or not,
your roommate attempted to misrepresent
himself.
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Review
• Provide an example when the STIC method
would be useful.
• Name at least two people you can approach if
you ever feel trapped in a potential honor
situation.
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