Honor Council Speech
Honor. Pride. Integrity. These are what Honor Council stand for and as long as we [the honor council] are there, these ethical standards are what we are about. We are not a secret police force. Neither are we Big Brother or the KGB. We are simply ambassadors of what we feel is right. And currently there are a lot of things happening amongst us that we feel are not right.
We are here today as a response to the faculty and, above all, us, the students. Honestly speaking I don't know how far we are going to go? But, there is one thing I do know and that is, if we have the support of the whole student body this time.we are not going to let Honor Council dissolve and die out. We are here so that thirty years down the road when we come back to Woodstock each and every one of us can proudly say that I was part of the generation which changed the Woodstock culture; that I was part of the movement which saw that each and every student graduated from Woodstock with his or her own report cards; that this time we took integrity in our own work and creation; that this time we did not cheat on our parents by having them receive a report card which had our names, but not our grades.
We are here to make each and every one of us believe in what is right. To make us believe that cheating, lying, stealing are not the values our parents taught us to grow with. To make us all stand up against people passing out questions before the test. That starting from today we will put the past behind us and move towards what is right. That starting today we will sign the Honor pledge in all our assignments to show that we honor the work we turn in. To show others out there that we take honor in our names and that no matter what we will never let the respect our names carry ever be taken away. At the end of the day "We're hoping that all of us together will be able to carry out the specific mission of the Honor Council, which is to educate the Woodstock community on issues of honor, and to hold us all accountable to high standards."
And after some time when we look back upon this leap we took as a community we will be proud of the role each and every one of us had to play in it.