Harvard Is Investigating 125 Undergrads In Massive Cheating Scandal

Business Insider ^ | 08/31/2012 | Meredith Galante and Julie Zeveloff

[SeekAndFind]

More than 125 Harvard University undergraduates are being investigated for plagiarism and other academic misconduct surrounding final examinations, according to Bloomberg News.

The incident is the "most wide-spread cheating scandal" known to rock Harvard, school officials told Bloomberg News.

All of the students were in a class of around 250 undergraduates. The group being accused will now face the Harvard Administrative board.

Officials said they discovered suspicious similarities while reading through the students' end-of-year take-home exams during the summer, according to Bloomberg News. If the students are proven guilty, they may have to withdraw from school for an academic year.

While schools officials have said they would not disclose the names of the students or the course they were taking, The Harvard Crimson is reporting that the class was Government 1310: "Introduction to Congress, in which 279 students were enrolled.

[Arm_Bears]

All registered Democrats, I’ll wager.

[SeekAndFind]

I was just thinking... these kids would make find Senators and Congressmen, and one of them might even be President....

Hey, why not CEO of another investment bank?

Isn’t that what Harvard grads eventually become?

[SeekAndFind]

I was just thinking... these kids would make fine Senators and Congressmen, and one of them might even be President....

Hey, why not CEO of another investment bank?

Isn’t that what Harvard grads eventually become?

[veritas2002]

I thought Obama finished his undergraduate education

[Fightin Whitey]

Cheating in “Introduction to Congress”?

If that doesn’t earn an A+ at Harvard I don’t know what would.

[DainBramage]

One would assume chapter one in Congress 101 is “Cheat your ass off”.

[Gay State Conservative]

If they're lucky they'll all be members of a victim group.That way all they'll suffer is a stern talking to.Any white,heterosexual males that might be among the "accused" can look forward to diplomas from Bunker Hill Community College...if they're lucky.And yes,that school *does* exist and is in Boston.In fact,IIRC,it was featured in “Good Will Hunting”.

[Baynative]

Why do people need to cheat at Harvard. Don’t they still give away degrees and Law Review positions?

[Graewoulf]

” - - - schools officials have said they would not disclose the names of the students or the course they were taking - - - “

IOW, Haaaaaaaaaaaaaarvud is just following former foreign student Alumni Obama’s CYA tactic of SEALING the School Records.

[InterceptPoint]

If the students are proven guilty, they may have to withdraw from school for an academic year. ...

..., return the following year and move on to positions high in the next Democrat administration following graduation with honors.

[scooby321]

Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy” — his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy’s admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.

[lowbridge]

Future democrat senators quite likely.

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In his first semester, Kennedy and his friends arranged to copy answers from another student during the final examination for a science class. [8] At the end of his second semester, in May 1951, and anxious about maintaining his eligibility for athletics for the next year, [1] he had a friend who was knowledgeable on the subject take his Spanish language examination for him. [9] The two were quickly caught and expelled for cheating, but in a standard Harvard treatment for cases of this kind, they were told they could apply for readmission in a year or two after demonstrating good behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy

[FlingWingFlyer]

My surprised look.

[blueunicorn6]

They all attended Paleface Lizzie Warren’s ethics class. Harvard - their motto is “truth”.....hahahahahahahahaha

[raccoonradio]

FUTURE SENATOR JOHN BLUTARSKY (as seen at end of Animal House)

I think Ted’s friend Joe Gargan took the test for him. He was later at the party house on Chappaquiddick

[Buckeye McFrog]

How can you have a cheating scandal at a school that’s been preaching Moral Relativism since Elvis first hit the charts?

[Dr. Sivana]

“Cheating in “Introduction to Congress”?

If that doesn’t earn an A+ at Harvard I don’t know what would.”

Nope. C+ only if you get caught.

[catnipman]

There’ll be several resounding slaps on wrists and severe admonitions for getting caught; suitable preparation should they be caught perpetuating the adult forms of such transgressions after they go to work on wall street selling derivatives.

[Tainan]

I see your wager and raise you a “I bet they are all of a foreign ethnic group from Asia.”