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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating (Is it clearly definable?)
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 20:26:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 21 20:26:26 1987
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From: ark@alice.UUCP
>Yes indeedy.  Isn't it a shame that such questions are illegal?...
>
>	questions ``of a testing nature'' unless such questions have
>	been proven to be non-discriminatory.
>
>The third category, mandated by Affirmative Action, is the real zinger.
>It was the consensus of people I spoke to at that time that one simply
>could not ask questions of the form ``Can you solve this problem?''

Oh come on. Is it illegal? Or is the AT&T bureaucracy just brain-dead?

Mind you, this is the same bureaucracy which takes two weeks to come
and fix my 3B5 because the first week is spent denying I have a
service contract and the second week is spent losing the original
service request.

I don't think AT&T's bureaucracy can be used as an example of anything.

I don't believe that determining a person's qualifications for a job
is "illegal". I do believe that using it to discriminate against
racial minorities is illegal. I do believe that you might have to
justify which you were doing, so what else is new? You might get
audited by the IRS also, life's a bitch, then you die.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University