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From: collett@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <1384@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 17:48:05 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1384
Posted: Tue Apr 14 17:48:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 23:43:20 EST
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Reply-To: collett@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (Kendall Collett)
Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center
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In article <6799@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UUCP writes:
>I think the penalty should be very simple.  If X copies from Y,
>then X should be expelled from school.  Period.  And so should
>Y, unless Y can prove that Y did not know that X had copied Y's
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>work.
^^^^^^

    This is silly.  Presumably, you have proved that X had copied Y's
    program.  Then X should suffer some sort of punishment (you say
    expulsion).  I agree with this.  But then you say that Y should suffer
    the same punishment, unless Y can prove that X had copyied his or her
    program without his or her knowledge.  In essence, you are saying that
    Y is guilty until proved innocent.  This doesn't seem right to me.

    Kendall Collett

    P.S. It is also possible for Y to know X had copied his or her program,
	 but still be innocent of wrongdoing.