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...case at many U.S. colleges and universities, there is constant pressure to get good grades (see following story). The "goats," with the low marks, sit at the back of a classroom, while the "engineers" sit up front and get special privileges. Still the electrical engineering exam that is at the root of the current scandal was worth only 5% of the final grade in that course. Indeed the students being hauled before the Honor Committee included good students as well as borderline cases...
...cadets who violated the honor code by cheating on a relatively insignificant exam knew that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster...
Although these modified systems seem to be working well, both institutions have had scandals of their own. In 1974 seven midshipmen were forced to resign for cheating on a celestial navigation exam. At Colorado Springs, 109 cadets (including 29 football players) were forced out in 1965 for stealing and selling exams or tolerating the practice; 46 left after handing around test questions in 1967; and 39 were banished for cheating or tolerating those that...
Cheating practices are as varied as the causes. Yalies talk of the student-possibly mythical-who walked into the school print shop as exams were being run off, sat down on an inked galley and walked off with a set of test questions on the seat of his pants. Another student, totally unprepared for his exam in Chinese history, labeled...
...blue book "Number Two," wrote a single grandiloquent concluding paragraph and handed it in. The professor later apologized for losing blue book "Number One" and gave the student a B. Less ingenious but far more prevalent are those who sneak "crib sheets" into exam rooms, furtively copy from classmates' papers or even, thanks to technological advances, use pocket-size tape recorders with earphones to play back lecture notes or important formulas. Then there are the pre-med students who sabotage classmates' lab experiments and law students who check out scarce reading material from school libraries for the duration...