LANIUS AND DOWNES: Honor referenda aren’t about self-governance
By W. Andrew Lanius and Colin M. Downes | February 18, 2015The overall effect of the campaign’s referenda would be to fabricate a mandate for abolition of the single sanction in advance, without having a concrete policy on the table. That would wait until next year, when the proposal would come with both the imprimatur of the Honor Committee and the weight of this year’s referendum behind it.
