Posted on 08/31/2012 7:02:14 AM PDT by 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.
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At worst, the introduction of the “gentleman’s gap year”.
Can you imagine the legal firepower those Harvard parents are going to have focused on the proceedings?
The kicker is that it was a take-home test. They could have used any resource except each other but they were too lazy.
Or future Democratic Vice Presidents
You are right, of course.
It was probably an assigned class project. Those who slide by get the A+, those who get caught aren’t fit for public office!
The service academies have had cheating scandals - almost always involving difficult subjects like EE and physics. And at the academies, those students (were) eliminated. After all, there is plenty of room for cheaters in government.
Now, our vaunted Harvard students are caught cheating on a course so vapid and undemanding that the Obamadork probably could have passed it. Wanna bet no one will be asked to leave.
Standards? Heh!
You’re right. They were lazy.
To get into Harvard you have to be smart or possibly have a Middle East benefactor donate a large building. Most of these kids were smart enough to do the work. They were just lazy.
Harvard grad Doris Kearns Goodwin, admitted plagiarist.
“The kicker is that it was a take-home test”
Note to any employer if a resume comes across your desk with Harvard listed, treat it with as much credibility as any institution with take-home tests.
Seem the lie-berals at Harvard are sitting back and just letting the name “Harvard” speak for them.
I worked for a world class firm which had been in business for 88 years without a single layoff, bigger than Kodak in its glory days, and 3 little Harvard MBAs ran it into bankruptcy in under 3 years from the date they took over from their 2 fathers (was owned by 2 brothers).
“If the students are proven guilty, they may have to withdraw from school for an academic year.”
Oh wow, a whole year. I was thinking that this was light punishment until it hit me that most of these students will be politicians or bankers, or lawyers, so the school already knows they are dishonest as hell.
If their punishments were any stiffer, they’d run out of students.
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