Caught Cheating

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=166023" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="31800640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Message </b></FONT><B>   |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Message"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Caught Cheating</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> You are an "instructor" in a small liberal arts college—Upper Boondocks University.  You are a low-ranking member of the faculty who is a year or so away from being considered for tenure.  You are legally and normally responsible for helping to implement policy decisions made by the Board of trustees and the President.</div> <bR> <div> Cheating has been rampant at "UBU".  Because it threatens the accreditation rating of the school, the Board has rendered a policy decision intended to stop cheating at all costs.  The President has been ordered to implement this policy.  He calls a meeting of the faculty and student body and announces the joint decision of the Board of Trustees and himself to expel any student caught cheating and reported by a member of the faculty.  Most of the students and faculty are supportive of the faculty.  Most of the students and faculty are supportive of the Board’s policy and the President’s course of action.</div> <bR> <div> <B>THE PROBLEM:</b></div> <bR> <div> While you are administering a final examination to a large upper-division class, you discover a student "cheating".  He is cribbing from notes in the palm of his hand.</div> <bR> <div> The student, you discover, is a friend of yours, and his father is a member of the community power structure.  He is editor of the school paper, a good student and is very popular with both students and faculty.  Because of the pressure of his extra-curricular activities, his grades have suffered during the last semester, and he must receive and "A" in this class in order to be admitted to law school in the fall.</div> <bR> <div> Your task as a group is to advise the professor as to his/her choice of action.   If you do not find any of these solutions correct in your opinion, formulate another possible choice of action</div> <bR> <div> POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:</div> <bR> <div> _____ 1.  Take the notes from him inconspicuously and announce to the class that </div> <div>                 cheating has been observed.</div> <div> _____ 2.  Announce to the class that cheating has been observed and that any further</div> <div>                 cheating will result in dismissal from the examination and will be </div> <div>                 reported to the President.</div> <div> _____ 3.  Ignore him and pretend that you did not see him.</div> <div> _____ 4.  Inconspicuously ask him to put away the notes and not to cheat anymore.</div> <div> _____ 5.  After class, tell him that you observed him cheating and that you are failing   </div> <div>                 him for the entire course.</div> <div> _____ 6.  Talk with him after class; tell him that you observed him cheating and ask </div> <div>                 him what ought to be done about it.</div> <div> _____ 7.  Take the notes and the examination from him.  Announce to the class that </div> <div>                  cheating will result in dismissal from the examination.  Fail him for this </div> <div>                  examination (only).</div> <div> _____8.  Take the notes and the examination from him and dismiss him; also report  </div> <div>                him to the president, which will result in expulsion from the University.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>      </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>