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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
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Date: 21 Dec 88 01:08:47 GMT
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In article <885@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Why
>would anyone try to sabotage another student?  There's nothing in it for
>the saboteur.

Sometimes the sabotage is unintentional.  Here is what happened to me
back in school:

I had stayed up very late finishing up a programming assignment.  I
printed a listing off, which I was going to pick up from my bin the
next day.  I get to the bin the next morning, look at the printout, and
put it back in the bin (it was raining outside, I didn't have my
backpack, and I had to come back to the building later in the day
anyway for a class).  Three hours later, it was gone (note:  I am
leaving out details which lead me to believe that it was not an
accident).

Now suppose that I hadn't finished the program.  The person who 'took'
my printout would be sabotaging my efforts to finish on time.  This was
probably not his/her intent (the intent was to copy someone else's
program), but the result is the same.

My teacher for this class had an excellent policy regarding this type
of incident:  if you cheat on an assignment, you get a 0 for that
assignment; if you steal someone else's work, you automatically fail
the course, and you are brought up for dismissal from the University.
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