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From: malice@wolf.UUCP (Gib Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <301@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 13:30:56 EST
Article-I.D.: wolf.301
Posted: Sun Apr 19 13:30:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 21:39:04 EST
References: <248@rruxa.UUCP> <274@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> <211@axis.fr> <3891@utai.UUCP> <6799@alice.uUCp>
Organization: The International Hedonist Conspiracy
Lines: 11
Summary: sharing a grade

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.


don't you think that expulsion is a little severe?
even in our law system we don't sentence someone to the electric
chair for lying, cheating, and stealing on a first offense.
[read: first time caught]