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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree didn't seem as interesting as other things I was doing at the time--playwriting and my involvement in the labor movement," Friberg said yesterday. "So I never took the exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Renaissance Man' Finally Graduates | 6/15/1976 | See Source »

Friberg decided to take the French placement exam this year partly because a fire thirty years ago destroyed his diplomas from other institutions and many of his manuscripts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Renaissance Man' Finally Graduates | 6/15/1976 | See Source »

...Exam at Sea. Yet the dramatic break with tradition did not solve the immediate problem of reopening the university to its 270,000 students. One dedicated physics professor administered his final examination on board the Staten Island ferry at night last week. The vast majority of students were in limbo while officials work out an agreement for emergency funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Scramble for Solvency | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...second classmen (juniors) were considerably cooler. In a class of 875, four had already resigned after being charged with cheating on an electrical-engineering exam in March; 48 had been found guilty by honor committees and were appealing (of these, two have now been found guilty and one acquitted); 82 more were charged with cheating last week by panels of officers and cadets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Upstaging the Goat | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...midst of the inquiries, Second Classman Timothy Ringgold brought suit in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to halt them. It was Ringgold who remarked, during a meeting with Army Under Secretary Norman Augustine after the engineering-exam scandal had surfaced, that cheating was "widespread" at the Point. He is now under investigation for having "tolerated" misconduct by fellow cadets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Upstaging the Goat | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

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