WHY STUDY WHEN YOU CAN CHEAT? [+] ballot by Barbara_Baby_Cakes ACTIVE Tue May 01, 07 - Thu Jul 09, 09 The New Times reported that, 34 first year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school’s history. The final was an open book test in a required course in March, with students told to take the exam on their own. But many students collaborated, in violation of the school’s honor code, according to a ruling last week by the judicial board of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. School officials declined to identify the course, the professor or the students, citing confidentiality in judicial board matters. But they indicated that the professor had noticed similarities in the answers by the students, who are candidates for a master’s in business administration. Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling, which was distributed within the business school on Friday. Fifteen students were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course; nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four students accused of cheating were exonerated. National surveys have suggested that cheating is widespread among graduate students. In a survey released last September by a Rutgers University professor, 56 percent of business graduate students admitted having cheated, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law school. More than 5,300 students at 54 universities were surveyed from 2002 to 2004. At Ohio University, officials have been investigating for many months a cheating scandal that began with an accusation that more than 20 mechanical engineering students had plagiarized parts of their master’s theses, some as long as 20 years ago. More than 200 master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertations have now been examined, university officials said. So far, the university has revoked the master’s degree of a former student for plagiarism, and a committee has recommended that five students be dismissed and 12 others be ordered to rewrite their theses. More cases will be heard this spring. I for one am not surprised, many of your so call educated elitist cheated their way up the scholastic ladder, it is a systemic practice of the highest order. Yes/No, are these isolated incidents or a long time tradition kept on the down low? Isolated incidents... a long time tradition kept on the down low... Other Comment... Comment box, please! I studied at Oxford University and could tell you a lot of stories.... One of them will probably become president some day. Ballot #114495 : SEE RESULTS

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