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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: Taking exams?
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:28:42 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.192842.288@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.160756.63009@cc.usu.edu> slp9k@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >
- > The reciver on the HP is limited through hard wiring. So some students
- >At BYU bypassed the wiring and were sending answers across the room to each
- >other during a test. Somehow or other the professor caught them and the use of
- >HP-48's has been banned for all tests at BYU.
-
- Their 48's would look a little... vandalized... after being disassembled and
- reassembled, you know. (But it just _might_ be plausible. I still have a
- hard time believing it, though...)
-
- > If so I'm
- >afraid that all schools would have to ban the 48 during tests. Isn't
- >technology great?
-
- Don't be silly. Punishing everybody for the sins of a few is ridiculous.
- This argument sounds suspiciously close to the gun banning argument that "Some
- people use guns for killing people, therefore no one should be allowed to
- have guns..."
-
- If I were a professor, I'd nail those cheaters to the wall too, (not to
- mention giving them 0's on their exams, if I could't kick them out of the
- course), but I sure as heck wouldn't take it out on anybody else who used
- their calculators legitimately!
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-
-