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...even when math and science departments have clear policies on cheating, academic dishonesty in these departments is somehow still harder to pinpoint. Often there really is only one way to solve a math or physics problem, and professors are unable to prove cheating when students have duplicate answers. But this was not true in the case of Jennie C. Lin ’03. When Lin was a first-year, someone in an organic chemistry course copied her work during a midterm. Her creatively incorrect answers immediately gave the cheater away. Lin recounts the story of the professor calling...
...define cheating at Harvard? Many students admit they can’t pinpoint the meaning of the term. Does a blowjob on the side count as cheating? What about hastily copying your roommate’s Core problem set a few minutes before class? Merriam-Webster can’t tell students what cheating means in their daily lives. But in this Scrutiny, a number of past and current students—whose real names have been changed in this story—give FM their own accounts...
...even when math and science departments have clear policies on cheating, academic dishonesty in these departments is somehow still harder to pinpoint. Often there really is only one way to solve a math or physics problem, and professors are unable to prove cheating when students have duplicate answers. But this was not true in the case of Jennie C. Lin ’03. When Lin was a first-year, someone in an organic chemistry course copied her work during a midterm. Her creatively incorrect answers immediately gave the cheater away. Lin recounts the story of the professor calling...
Diaz said he was unable to pinpoint one cause of the incident...
Good plays in football are made by finding the holes in the defense and utilizing them before they close up. Mitchell and Milanese found those holes—usually in between the retreating linebackers and the oncoming safeties—and the quarterback, with pinpoint accuracy, hit Milanese nine times for 139 yards including a touchdown...