The Honor System on Life Support: An Alum Sounds the Alarm

In this episode of On My Honor, Kamron Spivey sits down with Iain MacLeod (W&L Class of 2022) — a researcher, writer, and passionate defender of traditional honor at Washington and Lee University. Iain shares how he went from being raised on the Honor System to uncovering its decades-long deterioration through archival research in Special Collections. From "Name Change Gate" to COVID-era overreach to the quiet removal of lying, cheating, and stealing from the White Book — this conversation traces how W&L's once-unrivaled Honor System arrived at its current crossroads, and what it will take to restore it.

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Intro & Outro Music: Jan Garber Orchestra. Accessed via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/JanGarberOrchestra78rpmCollection/59+Washington+%26+Lee+Swing.m4a