WASHINGTON POST: Harvard University is investigating whether dozens of undergraduate students cheated on a take-home exam last spring.
School officials said they discovered students may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. They declined to release the name of the class, the students’ names or the exact number being investigated, citing privacy laws.
The undergraduate class had a minimum of 250 students and possible cheating was discovered in roughly half the take-home exams, university officials said Thursday… (more)
EDITOR: This is sad almost beyond words. Harvard attracts the top students of their generation. The standards are incredibly high. That half taking an exam would participate in cheating indicates one of three things: 1) Those who have so distinguished themselves have often done so at a sacrifice of ethics; 2) there is something very much the matter with the extreme competitiveness nurtured at that institution; and 3) this is representative of a universal decline in fair play, the sense of belonging to a community, the idolizing of success and undervaluing good effort and less spectacular achievements.
More later on how we no longer see and feel ourselves as part of a community. The Middle Ages built churches. The “Greatest Generatio” fought a war. We honor such blow-hards as Donald Trump.
