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...Degrees-r-us.com proudly states: “It is a time honored University practice to award diplomas to individuals who, although not enrolled in the University, have done something to cause the University to acknowledge and to honor them. There are no laws, nor rules, that dictate who is and who is not awarded a diploma...
...final two weeks of the school for Myat San consisted of dawn-to-dusk drills in preparation for graduation ceremonies, when the grueling 10 months of training culminated in an elaborate processional of 1,000 cadets before proud parents and the president of Singapore. Myat San had the great honor of serving as the parade commander, leading the entire entourage in a final display of expert ability...
...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...
...indeed going to offer one potential solution, but before I do, let me address one oft-suggested idea—the implementation of an honor code—that would not be effective...
...biggest problem with honor codes is that, well, they don’t work. If a student is a cheater, is it really feasible that putting his signature on a piece of paper is suddenly going to infuse him with integrity? I don’t think so—and neither, I suppose, do the nearly 50 ex-University of Virginia students who are now looking for a new school, after they made a travesty of their school’s vaunted honor code by cheating off each other in a physics class last year...