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...sure who it was that broke the agreement between our section leader and his section--and I don't really want to know. The fact is that several students thought it worthwhile to cheat on a problem set worth less than 1.5 percent of their final grade in the class...
...classmate, Mr. Yoon, witnessed the identical series of events and believes they can. He states that students at the College were "the cream of their high school classes" and have "certainly never had to cheat for their grades. "Yet most of these students had never faced classes graded as harshly or workloads as intense before coming to Harvard. And a significant number of students probably must attribute a fair amount of their past and present success to skillful cheating...
...aside from the administrative redundancy of proctors, the underlying assumption that they are necessary is almost insulting. Those accepted to this college were the cream of their high school classes. They were showered with academic laurels. They're used to studying. they have certainly never had to cheat for their grades...
Data from polls of universities nationwide indicate that the vast majority of students cheat--in one form or another--a lot more than most administrators would like to admit...
...Each student needs to have a code of ethics about their individual behavior," Jewett said. I would hope that [students who cheat] would understand that they are not getting much out of their education...