Half of Harvard "Intro to CONgress class" caught cheating
 

Harvard Investigates "Unprecedented" Academic Dishonesty Case
Nearly half of more than 250 students in "Introduction to Congress" are under investigation

By Rebecca D. Robbins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, August 30, 2012

"Harvard College’s disciplinary board is investigating nearly half of the 279 students who enrolled in Government 1310: "Introduction to Congress" last spring for allegedly plagiarizing answers or inappropriately collaborating on the class’ final take-home exam.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said the magnitude of the case was “unprecedented in anyone’s living memory.” "

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They will pass with flying colors.

Congressional material.

They will make perfect congressmen - A!

Maybe this was the laboratory portion of the class? Thus the cheating half get an A, and the others flunk.

a take home exam? Whats that?

No they got caught .....FAIL

They were all cheating, only half got caught, the other half will soon have intern positions in D.C.

Just think of it as super-homework. When I was in college we had take home exams too, for some classes.

Actually, this reminds me of a very similar story to what happened in one of my classes when I was in undergrad. It was architectural history class, and about half the class got busted plagiarizing out of the textbook for an assignment, and the professor declared, the day after the assignment was turned in, that everyone who submitted plagiarized reports was getting a zero. Well, most of the class (at least the half that got busted) actually set up a protest and started a petition to get signatures to send to the dean of the school to object to their zeros in the class. The professor made the comment, which I agreed with, that if they showed as much initiative in doing their work as they did in trying to get out of it, they'd all pass with flying colors.

This is why most of my classmates in college haven't amounted to jack, while I've found a level of success that they could only wish for.

Years ago as a third year law student a couple of first year students came to me at lunch time to say that the Criminal Law Professor announced to the class that he had been tracking a particular student who would skip a week or two of classes then show up and initial the sign-in sheet for the days he skipped. The Professor said he had been keeping track of this individual for a couple of months. Then the Professor said the guilty party needed to show up at the Dean's Office "with his attorney" after lunch because he was going to be kicked out of law school.

Well, these two first year students were worried that the Professor was speaking about them each individually; each had earlier in the semester initialed a day later a time or two they were tardy and missed the sign in sheet. I told them both not to worry, the student rule book required action against them within 14 days of the offense.

Later they told me that 20 or so first year students showed up at the Dean's Office to confess to initialing the sign-in sheet a day later. They Professor and the Dean don't know what to do with the 20. So they ended up docking each a letter grade for the class. The upshot of the story: the student who the Professor was tracking never showed up to the Dean's Office or any class after that.