Academic fraud- this time at Harvard

[tornado]

http://news.yahoo.com/harvard-dozens-students-may-cheated-062309521.html

[SFP]

This has zero to do with sports!

[FlyingSpaghettiMonster]

Yahoo news, where you can find things SLIGHTLY more current than the newspaper.

"You think of Harvard as somewhere where people are academically honest and interested in their course work," he said.

If you don't want people to work together on take-home exams, then don't give take-home exams. You can be pretty sure that people are going to share answers on those type of exams, but straight copying answers is pretty stupid on the student's part. I'd associate 95% of the blame to the instructor and whoever made this public. A situation like this should be handled in-house and not hit the media.

I really hope this source is right. The course is "Introduction to Congress." That's pretty funny.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/harvard_cheating_scandal.php

[tornado]

This has zero to do with sports!

ooops....yes it does....
multiple Harvard basketball players are involved ...and at least one - maybe two are leaving the team including their best returning KEY player

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/11/harvards-kyle-casey-withdraws-from-school-amid-academic-scandal/related/

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/20152085/harvards-basketball-program-hurt-by-academic-scandal-but-is-it-a-basketball-problem

[SFP]

I was wrong and it's nice to see them not sweep this under the rug as others would.

[Future Walk-On]

In my advanced organic chem class at Bradley we were given take home exams and we were told not to collaborate....but we did anyways...our professor seemed to know

they took like 20 hours to do in a group ...

[tornado]

Academic fraud - this time at harvard

This has zero to do with sports!

ooops....yes it does....
multiple Harvard basketball players are involved .......

apparently quite a few athletes are involved......
four more athletes leave school in the aftermath of the cheating scandal...

http://www.uscho.com/2012/12/11/four-harvard-players-leave-team-amidst-academic-scandal/

[BradleyJD]

This is neither here nor there, but when I went to BU, I sat in a class where certain athletes, in a certain sport, were allowed to take tests with their notebooks open on the floor next to their desks.

This isn't surprising at all.

Sad, but not surprising.

[tornado]

ha - Jim Harrick set the gold standard for this stuff......

http://www.wnd.com/2004/03/23585/