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From: troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly)
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Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
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Date: 30 Dec 88 15:04:26 GMT
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In article <30@rpi.edu> mccombt@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Todd McComb) writes:

>With all this talk of sabotage, I keep wondering just how someone
>would sabotage a student whom they thought was doing too well.  Maybe
>someone can enlighten me.  I just can't conceive of a situation where
>another student could affect my test score.  (Labs are a little 
>different.)

  Scenario in a class full of pre-law students: 
The professor announces a term paper, and hands out a long list of
possible references. That very day all references that seem germane
disappear from the stacks of the library. Months later someone notices
these references have all been mysteriously mis-shelved in, say, the
ancient Near Eastern languages section. So you see it is not hard for
one person to sabotage everyone else in the class. And yes, this does
happen.