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...Princeton's Honor Committee concluded that Robert Clayton, then a sophomore, had cheated on a make-up exam. Clayton, who graduated in 1982, now attends medical school at the University of Maryland and hopes to clear his past academic record...
...Clayton's troubles are rooted in the fact that no one supervises examinations at Princeton. Instead, each student adds the following, sentence to his blue book: "I pledge my honor that I have not violated the honor code during this exam...
DESPITE THE HONOR CODE, a number of Princeton students apparently think cheating isn't that bad after all, or is at least a risk worth taking. A 1978 Honor Poll revealed that 17.1 percent of students questioned said they had cheated on an exam. Clayton believes that, after the poll, the Honor Committee felt pressure from the university's faculty to convict a greater number of students...
...year after the poll was conducted. Clayton took a make-up exam with two other students. The committee concluded that, after he had handed in his test. Clayton talked to one of the other students, looked in a book and changed an answer on his exam. Clayton insists that he only wanted to make sure he had written down the right answer...
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