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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...