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Look, for instance, at the example of CS 50—the computer science department’s introductory course—which is one of the few Harvard classes that, using special software, automatically checks all assignments for plagiarism. Because of this practice of checking every student’s work, CS 50 manages to garner, its website reports, an “extraordinarily high percentage of the cases of undergraduates required to withdraw from Harvard College for disciplinary reasons...
This has some very disturbing implications. If this is the case in CS 50, then simple reasoning dictates that the situation is in fact far worse in many other classes. CS 50 is a required course and / or a building block for a number of concentrations in the applied sciences. As such, many of its students have an external incentive to learn the material in addition to simply wanting a good grade—an incentive that almost all Core classes utterly lack, as they are generally the first and last course in that field which most of their students...
...this that most classes have no way to check for copying, and you have fertile territory for potential cheaters. Students are usually placed on the honor system not to cheat—and, as the example of CS 50 indicates, that means trouble...
...seemed constantly to get into trouble. Cyril was far from an academic success at Harvard. In April of his freshman year, the Administrative Board placed him on probation for a month. And then, after a miserable showing on his finals—five Es, two Cs, a B and a pass—he was suspended. After a grueling few months at summer school, though, Cyril convinced the Ad Board to readmit...
...Pictet & Cie, "they need fixing." Other analysts, noting bad investments in everything from real estate to Internet companies, question whether Credit Suisse has purged its ghosts. "They're still carrying their old portfolios, and they will certainly want to exit many of those businesses," says Thomas Kalbermatten, who covers CS for Switzerland's Bank Sarasin. "In the meantime, the losses are definitely not finished." Amid all these struggles, the one many see as inevitable - a supremacy battle between Mack and Grübel - seems to have taken a back seat. "For now, I think it works better to have...