Mike Christensen- Honor Code Schmonor Code

In their time at CNU, all students must sign an Honor Code, which runs as follows:
"On my honor , I will maintain the highest standards of honesty, integrity and personal responsibility. This means I will not lie, cheat, or steal and as a member of this academic community, I am committed to creating an environment of respect and mutual trust."

While aspiring for the students to keep an honor code is a noble endeavor, the administration does so in a way that destroys the very essence of the honor code and creates a phrase without meaning. In example, a student is first forced to sign and sometimes even write out, the code when entering CNU and then whenever taking an exam. To make someone submit to a code of honor is antithetical to its meaning! Honor, if someone has it, is something that a person holds within themselves. It is a guiding force by which they act of their own volition. You cannot instill honor by making someone sign a piece of paper.
Even worse is the fact that the administration punishes people for violating this "honor code". A system of honor is own in which the people control their own actions through their own code of honor. To have punitive measures for people who violate their own morals is ridiculous! It destroys the very meaning of honor, and makes the code system into a law system, without any attachment whatsoever to the actual concept of honor.
Is forcing compliance with an honor code a dishonorable act itself? How might the administration try to cultivate actual honor in the student body?