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...more than frustration, the University's policy toward enforcing this most heinous of academic crimes has an unparalleled effect on the student's willingness to cheat...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...more practical grounds, there are never enough proctors in a large hall to look at every student all the time--or even long enough to prevent him from looking around. If a student wanted to cheat, he could do it without any problem in most imaginable cases...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...system has a more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...same time, it would be unrealistic to think hard-core cheaters would stop cheating just because the word "honor" is attached to the monitoring method. After all, if you cheat well, you can be an "honors" student...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...there is a tension because people are torn between the knowledge that they can cheat and the fear that their fellow students would tell on them...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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