Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday

theodp writes: The Duke Chronicle published an e-mail reportedly sent to hundreds of Duke students who took Computer Science 201 (Data Structures & Algorithms) last spring, giving those who copied solutions to class problems until Nov. 12th to turn themselves in for cheating. "Students who have violated course policies but do not step forward by November 12, 2014," warns the e-mail, "will not be offered faculty-student resolution and will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct for disciplinary processes without any recommendation for leniency." The Chronicle adds that CS Prof Owen Astrachan, co-director of undergraduate studies, admitted that there is a fine line between collaboration and cheating in computer science — online and in person, although Astrachan made it clear in comments that "Students who copied code from the Internet are in violation of the community standard and course policies."

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Affected Student Here

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting AC for obvious reasons.

I received one of these emails and will be telling Duke to go fuck itself. I do all of my own assignments and use SourceTree for version control, and can demonstrate the development from scratch of each of my assignments, including handwritten development notes.

I've also hired a lawyer and we are prepared to sue the school instantly if any attempt is made to accuse me of cheating and defame my good character.

Re:yea no - happened in Middle School

[serviscope_minor]

The brother admitted to it, and was held back. The sister stayed quiet and moved on to high school.

That's school working as it should: it taught th brother a very, very valuable lesson he'll never forget. The point of school is learning things, right?