<p>ohiopublic - Of course not, although the scenarios are not exactly the same. More analogous would be if you had a team assignment of say 4 students, and 1 was found to have cheated without the knowledge of the other 3, should they all be punished? Neither analogy is perfect. But what should Emory’s punishment be, if that is the proper outcome? There is absolutely nothing official about USNWR rankings. Now I guess they misreported the data to the Department of Education, and theoretically there might be legal ramifications for that. I have no idea, but one can imagine it could be true.</p>
<p>But in any case, it is not being ignored and I don’t think anyone said it should be. They are being held to account in the courst of public opinion, and as I said earlier, to the extent this was somewhat about rankings, it could hurt them in the rankings through a drop in peer assessment. It could also cost them in admissions if students got skittish about attending Emory based on this incident, but personally I find that very very unlikely.</p>