There are two codes of behavior here at Governor's School. One they tell you about in the handbook, at Open House, and in Info Sessions. The other is written only on men's hearts. One is championed by admin. The other is feared by admin. The one is the "Honor Code", a code which purports not to be merely a code for school but a code for life. If you know about a student involved in wrong doing, you are to turn them in. If you are involved in wrong doing, you are to turn yourself in. The other is what I like to call the "Students' Code." There is a no more ironclad wall than that wall made by the students' code. As the code of Bushido is for the Samurai so the student's code is for the govie. Violators of the student's code are marked for life, if not longer. Is there any student who does not believe that on one level or another, if Luke Payne did in fact turn in Brennan, (which is doubtful) then he deserved to have the furniture stacked in front of his door? The rules of the student's code are precise and binding. "Thou shalt not under any circumstance turn in thy fellow student, least ye thyself be turned in." Admin fears the student code, for it always stands between them and the "troublemakers." Were it but for the student code, the school would be a utopia of rule-abiding students. Van Sturgeon won't write a recommendation for people who value the student code over safety from fire. A fire alarm is pulled. Grouchy and sleepy people whine for the guilty party to turn themselves in. "Come on, I'm tired." Yet the next day had someone turned in their friend, would they not help punish the student for so blatant a violation of the trust we all hold? What is the source of this all-powerful code of behavior then? What is the cause of such a binding code of action? It is a question I do not know the answer to. It is a riddle without a solution. Perhaps it is a remnant of the tribal age. Do not let the other tribe know our secrets. Perhaps it is a product of the generation gap. All I know is I won't talk, and no amount of sleep deprivation will make me.