Starting Small | Aaron Lee

Harker is an institution that prides itself on the unifying honor of its community: its members are noble in following basic tenets that keeps the community bonded. As a Harker student, the word honor not only reminds me of ethics, but also of Harker's very own student government and honor council. As elections approach, one must think of the honor that these candidates portray to the community. True, when one runs, he or she might discuss improving the community, making it more honorable, and giving himself credibility by calling himself for example the "nicest guy on campus", in order to appeal to voters. Why not start small? Why not forget all the complexities one involves with honor and attempt to be honorable on a basic level? Keeping yourself honorable on a scale as small as respecting other fellow students, even when not in front of everyone, makes you a better person than that candidate who overlooks honor on the small scale and attempts to envelop himself with it on a bigger scale.