cheaters!
Back with a vengeance, Dr. Free-Ride
posts about "The problem with cheaters". I hate cheaters.
She opens her post thusly:
It must be a law of nature that when past and current graduate students dine together at the end of December the conversation turns, sooner or later, to cheaters. First, of course, you discuss the head-slappingly stupid techniques cheating students employ. ("If they thought we wouldn't notice them doing that, they must think we're really stupid!") Then, you recount a sting operation or two (like planting someone next to a habitual cheater during an exam and having the plant spend the exam period writing utter nonsense -- all dutifully copied by the cheater onto her own exam). Finally, there is the wringing of hands over how the graduate students' efforts against cheaters are for nought given the policies at certain universities that, basically, don't let you do jack to the cheaters.
...and continues on at length about "systems that let cheating persist unchecked."
I don't know which sucks more: cheaters or a structure that allows them to cheat without repercussion. I think the latter.
Go read (and engage).
