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Trusting Harvard students never to cheat on problem sets is like trusting us not to use false identification to obtain alcohol (I don’t know anyone who would do that, do you?) or trusting us not to download copyright-protected music on Kazaa (I also don’t know anyone who would do that...
First, you likely have a good idea of what I am talking about (“Of course people cheat on problem sets. It’s so easy to do so with complete impunity, there’s little incentive not to.”). Second, you may think I am a complete jerk for mentioning it in such a public forum (“I need those points!”). And third, you may be wondering if I am going to make a suggestion about how to fix this seemingly intractable problem (“I wonder...
...way—of stymieing cheaters. To turn a blind eye to this problem—and yes, it really is a problem—is to ignore a situation which causes real, tangible harm on the students who least deserve it: the ones who don’t cheat...
Many students who cheat in humanities classes say that they know exactly what they are doing. We revisit Luke. Luke admits that, as a first-year at Harvard, he constantly engaged in cheating with his roommates. “It’s sort of amazing to me sometimes how easy it is to get away with stuff in Harvard exams,” Luke says. “There’ll be 300 people in a single room, and only four little people in the front looking for cheaters. When you’re taking those big freshmen...
...offer a similar prognosis. “I’ve talked to others of my colleagues at schools with honor codes and my sense is that often students are harsher on their peers,” Fithian says. “At UVA, for instance, if you cheat at all, you’re usually out. Our sense is that sometimes when it comes to cheating, good people make mistakes. We don’t believe that most students that are caught cheating are irredeemable...