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Examination proctors twice a year take their toll of undergraduate nerves and patience by often creating as much tension as the blue books they distribute. Since they apparently operate under the theory that students will cheat if they can, some proctors prowl around the examination room like watchdogs, emitting an occasional growl and contributing to an already unpleasant atmosphere...
Although the watchdog theory may have been effective in the bygone days of tutoring schools, it seems superfluous today. Students who really want to cheat can probably outwit the examiners. A proctor would be necessary for virtually every student to prevent an occasional cheater from consulting his small sheet of math formulas or list of important dates...
...Movement: In July 1953, some 30 Saint-Ceré merchants, notified that the tax inspector was about to examine their books, appealed to Councilor Poujade, who formed a committee that threw out the tax inspectors, later organized resistance against the police. ("I cheat on my taxes. I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly...
...turned against the schools, the Dean of Students, A. Chester Hanford, did not feel that any rule outlawing the schools would be effective. As the CRIMSON stated in a front-page editorial on April 18, 1939, "Harvard's collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing...
Abston said that the vote was taken "to get an opinion, once and for all, as to the views of Business School men on the honor system." He said that there had been only a few cases of cheating reported this year, and stated that "they seem to be a result of a misunderstanding of the honor system, and not of an intentional attempt to cheat...