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From: kolb@handel.colostate.edu. (Denny Kolb - Professor of Existential Metaphysics )
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Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
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Date: 20 Dec 88 17:39:40 GMT
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In article <885@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>I've had mail from someone who thinks that nobody should even know whether
>you passed or failed, and someone suggested in this newsgroup that other
>students might sabotage good students if they knew who they were (I guess
>the potential saboteurs must be "complete idiots" or they would not "need
				  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
				    Not necessarily

>to consult a grade sheet to find another student who is" worth sabotaging).
>I guess this must be a bellum omnia contra omnes society after all.  Why
>would anyone try to sabotage another student?  There's nothing in it for
>the saboteur.
>
When I was an undergraduate, it was very fashionable to be a pre-med. (i.e. -
I wanna be a Doctor.) One of the MAJOR criteria used to evaluate an individuals
merits for admission to medical school was the GPA.  

In this instance, it was definitely to a pre-med students advantage to 
sabotage the grade of another student.  The poorer everyone else does, the
easier it is to get the A.

Regards,
Denny