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Two BYU students represented the university’s Honor Code during the National Conference on Ethics in America Oct. 29 through Saturday on the campus of West Point Military Academy in New York.
Shannon Monroe, a senior from Martinez, Calif., majoring in psychology and French, and Eric Anderson, a senior from Tremonton majoring in public relations, spent the week meeting with students from dozens of other universities across the country. The event was sponsored by the Military Academy and sought to bring people of varying backgrounds together to discuss codes of honor at different learning institutions.
BYU was selected to send representatives to the conference because the BYU Honor Code includes areas relating to personal conduct, said Rush Sumpter, Honor Code office director.
Sumpter said the pair was selected to attend the conference in part because of their work with the Honor Code Council. Anderson chairs the public relations committee, and Monroe serves as the peer support committee chair on the council.
Upon arrival at the conference, the delegates were placed in small teams with representatives from other colleges. These groups were asked to pool ideas about honor from their respective universities and backgrounds and create a new honor code.
Participants also discussed ethical issues with CEO’s of major corporations at the conference, as well as giving student presentations pertaining to their own institution’s code of honor.
“Most people thought our Honor Code was interesting,” Anderson said. “They were most surprised about the provision we have with clean language. It’s very different at BYU than at other universities around the country.”
This is the first year BYU was invited to the conference.
