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From: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <2428@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 00:41:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 00:41:50 1987
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Reply-To: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher)
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> Article <6812@alice.UUCP> From: ark@alice.UUCP

# 
# I also believe that allowing someone else to copy your work should be
# punished as severely as copying someone else's work.
# 

I have a thought and an experience to share. 
A good friend of mine, who did not do so well in classwork,
yet is proving to be an excellent engineer, helped a classmate
who inquired how he had worked a specific part of a project.
Since he was busy on other work, he passed said classmate his
completed work, and returned his attention to his other task.
The classmate copied it word for word. Ed had no idea
until he got his grade. 

Now Ed, by his own admission, survived in school with
the help of his friends. We worked with him, explained
things over, studied for tests together, etc.
Ed returned the favor, to a non-friend, and got stung.

My question to those profs on-net is this:
Is it worth creating such paranoia midst the student body
that we would not have helped Ed (or anybody else) for
fear of our own hides?
Must it be every (wo)man for him(her)self?

BTW, if you think we dragged Ed along, and he got 
a free ride, he and I took the EIT last year.
We both passed with wide margins.
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