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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments (Honor System)
Message-ID: <4551@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 13:34:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4551
Posted: Sat May  9 13:34:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 05:18:03 EDT
References: <263@rruxa.UUCP> <1466@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <854@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
Lines: 21
Keywords: cheating, honor systems

In article <854@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> ln63szb@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Grobbins) writes:
->In article <1466@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> dam@uvacs.UUCP (Dave Montuori) writes:
->>The four basic tenets of the Jeffersonian honor system, as originally
->>defined, are:
->>                 I will not lie.
->>                 I will not cheat.
->>                 I will not steal.
->>                 I *will* report anyone I see doing so.
->
->This last rule is the one that bothers me.  While I realize it may
->be fundamental to the success of an honor code, it seems that it is
->not a fair responsibility to place on students.  The first three
->require a student to be an honest student; the last requires him to
->be a judge and possibly an executioner.


	Not quite, there is still an honor trial with a judge,jury and if 
necessary 'executioner'.  The student in case 4 is simply the accuser and the
the other student the accused. 

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