Uh... last time I checked MIT wasn't to big on the whole sports scene.
Having a sport program in no way reflects on the quality of the engineering education either. Look at Stanford, Ga Tech... and so on.
This is not a US judicial hearing. It's administered through the school, and the "judges" are comprised of both students and faculty.
Usually, it's because the expense, hassle, or risk of a full hearing is great.
There is no monitary expense to a school hearing, and the kind of blemish cheating puts on an academic record definetly exceeds any hassles.
The student didn't plead the fifth. He admitted to cheating. He broke rules that were explictly laid out to him during the first few class periods and decided to whine about it when he was caught.
Any school that refuses to discuss their 'honor code'
The school didn't discuss the code with this particular writer. The code is available to all on-line at www.honor.gatech.edu, however.
The writer completely glosses over the fact that this "student" maybe, and most likely is, lying. Why else would the student accept the lower grade without protesting it to the appropriate school governing committies? Maybe becuase he knew the evidence against him was rock-solid.
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Uh... last time I checked MIT wasn't to big on the whole sports scene. Having a sport program in no way reflects on the quality of the engineering education either. Look at Stanford, Ga Tech... and so on.
This is not a US judicial hearing. It's administered through the school, and the "judges" are comprised of both students and faculty. Usually, it's because the expense, hassle, or risk of a full hearing is great.
There is no monitary expense to a school hearing, and the kind of blemish cheating puts on an academic record definetly exceeds any hassles.
The student didn't plead the fifth. He admitted to cheating. He broke rules that were explictly laid out to him during the first few class periods and decided to whine about it when he was caught.
Any school that refuses to discuss their 'honor code'
The school didn't discuss the code with this particular writer. The code is available to all on-line at www.honor.gatech.edu, however.
The writer completely glosses over the fact that this "student" maybe, and most likely is, lying. Why else would the student accept the lower grade without protesting it to the appropriate school governing committies? Maybe becuase he knew the evidence against him was rock-solid.