200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693
Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
It might not even BE that 1/3 of the kids cheated.
Heck - if I did amazing in the course, but bombed that test, I'd say I cheated if it meant exclusion of that test for my grade.
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
People talk about studying and cheating. I got a 4 year degree without doing either, so I don't get it. Of course, it took me 5 years...
Re:Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Turned out several of the students parents' were lawyers, and the university got sued hard...
Interviewer: "Wow! You have great grades! You must have studied really hard!"
Interviewee: "No, my parents sued the university for higher grades for me."
Interviewer: "Well, being that we're a law firm, you're hired!"
Re:This is EXTREMELY common today (Score:5, Funny)
(ack to Woody Allen) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I used to procotor for one of my Profs. (Score:1, Funny)
Old story:
An Irish engineering company wanted to hire a new engineer. After looking at resumes, two candidates, an Irishman and an American, were on top. They were so close that they were called in for interviews.
After the interviews, the manager still could not pick one over the other, so he told them the tie-breaker would be a ten-question written test. He gave them the test and said he'd be back in 30 minutes to see the answers.
After his review, he announced, "You each got the first nine answers correct and the tenth one wrong. I'm hiring the American."
The Irishman exclaimed, "If we both got the same answers right and wrong, why are you hiring the Yank instead of your own countryman?"
The manager answered, "Because he answered the last question, 'I don't know.' and you answered, 'I don't know either.'"