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...vigilance, but Gerolimatos even leaves her post sometimes when she wants to grab lunch herself. "When I let the students check their own card, they swipe it too fast," she complains, "and my computer starts to go a little crazy." Gerolimatos cheerfully greets each individual student, without having to cheat and peek at the names on the card. Unfortunately, few checkers have adopted this level of enthusiasm...
...also important because it is, sadly, the only requirement for admission on which applicants cannot misrepresent themselves. Many students cheat their way through high school, list clubs on their applications to which they never belonged and hire others to write their college essays. However, with the rare exception of a few football players, no one cheats on the SATs. The California Board of Regents surely understands that applicants would become even more indistinguishable from each other than they already are without the SAT. In fact, turning the college admissions process into a crap shoot is probably part of their rationale...
However, many students say that the security on the game is too loose and allows people to cheat...
Other Harvard students who have participated in the online game say that the spirit of the game is lost when people cheat...
...information from telephone interviews conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics beginning in 1979 with 807 mothers of children ages 6 to 9. They were asked how many times they had spanked their children in the past week and what the kids' behavior was like--did they lie, cheat, act up in school? Then the bureau polled the same group two years later. Sure enough, the kids who had been spanked had become increasingly antisocial...