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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:53:00 PDT
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- From: UNGER@MVSA.USC.EDU
- Subject: Re: cheating
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- I agree that cheating is easier in undergrad than in grad
- school. (After all, in a lecture hall packed with 300
- people taking the same exam, you have to try hard NOT
- to see what the person next to you is writing! I knew
- cliques of friends who went through 4 years of college
- sitting together and copying every exam. Sometimes the
- prof would get smart and make up 3 forms of the exam
- with the questions in 3 different orders, but then all
- they did was trade exams with the person 3 seats away
- when the ta wasn't looking. Our school had exam files
- in the library which most people used as practice tests,
- but sometimes they were outdated. The Greeks--Julie,
- you must have thought we were all so prejudiced!!! That's
- so funny how we Americans are so ingrained in our culture
- that we forget how our language sounds to others.--
- Anyway, the Greeks always seemed to have more and newer
- exams, and they even had the ones that the profs thought
- they didn't have. I don't know of anyone who cheated ALL
- the way through undergrad, but I know a lot of people who
- cheated very often.
- Anyway, cheating in grad school....
- At first glance it seems like it should be harder. The
- profs know everyone personally, nothing is multiple-
- choice anymore, etc. But there's something very
- disturbing I've noticed in our program--the requirements
- aren't exactly the same for everyone. Some people
- mysteriously get permission to waive a class requirement
- without doing anything to demonstrate that they know the
- material. Some people don't turn in an important paper
- or don't do a presentation and still end up with a B+
- or A- in a class. Some people's 20-hour-a-week RA-ships
- seem to take them about 40 hours, while others' take about
- 5. Because of this, we have a lot of resentment and whispering
- and gossiping among the students about favoritism. Does that
- happen in other programs too?
- Jennifer at USC
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