125 Harvard Students Suspected of Cheating

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<p>Class lists are published and placed on classroom doors, on bulletin boards, on the Internet, all over the place. If those are covered by FERPA, colleges and universities sure have a funny way of interpreting it.</p>

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<p>No. Only 125 are still under investigation. The committee apparently went through all the exams over the summer, and deemed 125 worth of further investigation. Thus, 154 students are not under investigation.</p>

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<p>Graded homework sets are also often left outside of office doors unattended, and this is against FERPA as well.</p>

<p>Though I can’t remember ever seeing a listing of all students in a class outside of the ones given to professors/TAs.</p>

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<p>Oh, okay - 279 students were under investigation.</p>

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<p>I don’t know how I missed it, but 2 weeks ago Harvard announced that after investigating over 120 students, as many as 70 were forced to withdraw (for 1 or 2 semesters) and then will be allowed to return to school. The 2 basketball players apparently made a wise decision in withdrawing early, although I don’t know how their individual cases were adjudicated. But if they had stayed and were playing this year, and they were forced to withdraw now… would have been the end of their careers. This way they can come back and play next year. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/education/harvard-forced-dozens-to-leave-in-cheating-scandal.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/education/harvard-forced-dozens-to-leave-in-cheating-scandal.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>here is the story from the Crimson:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/2/1/cheating-scandal-smith-withdraw/[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/2/1/cheating-scandal-smith-withdraw/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;