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200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant

Posted by samzenpus on from the people-get-what-they-deserve dept.

Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."

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  1. In other news by MRe_nl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Successfully cheating is the only part of the curriculum that has any relevance in the real world".
    To bad these students hadn't advanced to "plausible deniability" yet.

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  2. There is no such thing as cheating by nilbog · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There is no such thing as cheating, only getting creative with your sources. The real world, whatever your career will be, relies on the same behavior that is punished in school that they call "cheating."

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  3. Re:Wow. by lgw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot, the place where you're modded "Troll" for suggesting that taxes are bad. WTF has geekdom come to?

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