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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 12:59:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 12:59:10 1985
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> ...  It has been my experience that anyone who can pass
> a class without coming is either:
>    			1. wasting everyone elses time by even 
>                            enrolling since they've had the class before
>   					--or--
> 			2. Cheating they're asses off.

Unfortunately, "know the subject cold" != "had the class before".  It
is quite possible to know everything the course is going to teach, but
not to have formal course credit for this knowledge.

It is also possible to find the particular course so easy that reading
the textbook the night before each exam suffices to get a good mark.

I have seen both of these phenomena, in cases where I'm quite sure there
was no cheating.  Clearly it *is* wasteful for the person in question to
be taking the course under these circumstances, but there isn't any other
way to get credit for the material.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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