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Old 08-30-2007, 01:25 PM
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Interestingly enough, though, that fact doesn't surface along several other dimensions. Princeton kids still get into fights, and steal things from liquor stores, and serve alcohol to minors, and rape other students, and are racist and sexist and all that other stupid stuff kids are/do. I agree with your point, but I think that the way the Honor Code is constructured and that fact that the Honor Code is a long-standing institution at Princeton which is a very important part of the culture really makes a big difference even for kids who normally would not care about an honor system. I guarantee people at Princeton would ride the subway without a ticket just as often as anyone else would, for example.
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