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Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

Posted by Soulskill on from the our-way-or-the-highway dept.

Pickens brings news that a student at Ryerson University is facing 147 counts of academic misconduct after helping to run a chemistry study group through Facebook. School officials have declined to comment, but students are claiming that it is simply a valid studying technique in the information age. Quoting: "Avenir, 18, faces an expulsion hearing Tuesday before the engineering faculty appeals committee. If he loses that appeal, he can take his case to the university's senate. The incident has sent shock waves through student ranks, says Kim Neale, 26, the student union's advocacy co-ordinator, who will represent Avenir at the hearing. 'That's the worst part; it's creating this culture of fear, where if I post a question about physics homework on my friend's wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this - and my prof sees this, am I cheating?' said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself."

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  1. I shall answer the question! by GearType2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. It is cheating. No one ever gets help from anyone in the real world, and certainly not when science is involved.

  2. definition of idiocy by Bazzargh · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA:
    Ryerson's academic misconduct policy, which is being updated, defines it as "any deliberate activity to gain academic advantage"

    Great, no more turning up for class then!

  3. Re:you should not have answered that question by VorpalRodent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow, I don't know that having a bunch of armchair omniscients looking at their problems would help. I have this sinking feeling that a majority of the students would get confused when, in response to their calculus question (or what have you), the official response from Ask Slashdot is: "In Soviet Russia, calculus takes the limit of you!".

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  4. Re:you should not have answered that question by joaommp · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) I'm not a native English speaker
    2) I'm dyslexic. I can see the error now that you pointed it out, but I wouldn't notice it for myself ever
    3) This is /.! If the old saying is "in Rome, act like a Roman", than I have to do it CmdrTaco's style.

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  5. Re:147 offences? by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recognize that writing style...

    Stop e-mailing me! My penis is big enough!!!!!

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