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...questions on the exam—the information there was irrelevant, and some of the sentences he had scribbled down weren’t even correct. My father subtracted five points from his test score and let him walk. (continued from page 11) According to school policy, the cheater should have received a failing grade and been forced to retake the course. Some of his classmates were outraged that this punishment was not properly carried out. “I am extremely disappointed in the fact that a student was caught cheating and is released without penalty...
...matters of documented fact. Collectively, these facts demonstrate that you unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time.” Indeed, Yau was construed as a cheater trying to cash in on a loophole, while Perelman came off as a brilliant, ascetic saint who coasted above the fray. The 10,000-word piece was accompanied by a full-page caricature which depicted an angry Yau snatching the Fields Medal from the neck of a serene, bearded Perelman...
...places The Discomfort Zone reads like outtakes from a Judy Blume young-adult novel. On a church retreat, a girl caught Franzen cheating at cards and thereafter addressed him as "Cheater." He once publicly confused the words masturbation and menstruation. For a high school speech class, he brought in his stuffed Kanga and Roo toys to illustrate his talk about Australian wildlife. "It's like, if I were making a list of things that I don't want to talk about and don't want to write about publicly, these would be at the top of it," Franzen says. "That...
...mathematics, investigated allegations that several students had cheated on weekly homework assignments, The Crimson reported on Nov. 4, 1980. Bossert, whose course Natural Sciences 110, “Automatic Computing” was the second-largest class at the College, reported the names of a few of the suspected cheaters to their senior tutors and advisers.Only a week later, 13 students in Science B-16, “The History of the Earth and Life,” taught by late professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould, were caught cheating on their take-home midterm and received zeros, according...
...easy way for companies to line their pockets - it's also good business. The report points out that "GSA contractors with tax debts have an unfair advantage in costs when competing with contractors that pay their taxes." Not remitting payroll taxes to the IRS, for example, can save the cheater 15% in expenses so "these contractors could offer prices for their goods and services that are lower than their tax compliant competitors," according to the report. Which means that in holding out for the lowest bidder, the federal government may well unwittingly be acting, yet again, penny wise and pound...