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...have, the punishments for both students are comparable. This system, explicitly based on reciprocal trust, is surprisingly successful at promoting integrity on campus, even in a cynic’s world.Although the Harvard community assumes that every student knows right from wrong—and how to distinguish her own work from somebody else’s—this knowledge alone does little to stifle petty academic dishonesties and greater scholastic discretions. Conscience and an eight-line clause are not enough to instill students with a sense of academic accountability. Making the honor code omnipresent, by having students sign...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: Do the Honors | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

Plagiarism is a serious charge. It should not be trivialized by failing to distinguish those who are innocent of it from those who have admitted...

Author: By Alan M. Dershowitz | Title: Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors,” Mansfield said.Mansfield said that “the opinions of the best students get buried” in the CUE Guide, which, he said, does not distinguish the top students’ feedback from that of “the mediocre ones, the A-minus students.” Another professor took issue with online evaluations, which were fully implemented last fall, saying the new system discouraged students from putting much thought into their evaluations...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: CUE Proposal Irks Some Faculty | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...used to battle TB in areas with high rates of HIV. However, multi-drug resistant TB, defined as “resistant to isoniazid plus at least one other first-line antibiotic,” is becoming more common, according to Cohen, Currently, diagnosis of TB does not sufficiently distinguish multi-drug resistant TB infection from other infections, resulting in treatment of isoniazid-immune TB with isoniazid, Murray said. Unless changed, such use of isoniazid preventive therapy “would rapidly accelerate the drug resistance of TB,” Murray said. While isoniazid saves lives, Murray said, this...

Author: By Peter Grant, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: TB Meds Promote Mutant Strains | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...this point, it's almost impossible to distinguish between real footage of the film and footage carefully created by fans as an homage to the film's premise, but this trailer does feature a fair amount of original footage, which helps fans get a better feeling for what the filmmakers have in mind - namely snakes on a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Guide: Snakes on a Plane | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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