Grade Changing Student is sentenced four years

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<p>Well, this scandal involved three ORM students, Chinese, Indian and Japanese. Very cleaver. </p>

<p><a href=“Purdue University graduate gets four-year sentence for grade-changing scandal – New York Daily News”>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/purdue-university-graduate-hit-four-year-sentence-grade-changing-scandal-article-1.1709170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>No comment on the actual content, but that article clearly wasn’t proof-read very well. </p>

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<p>It is really sad that the stakes truly have become this high. There are cheaters in my son’s magnet and the others students are frustrated that they walk away with As in this tough grading system. Some have been caught at it, and are pretty sophisticated. When I was a kid if someone cheated it was just a one person, likely one time thing and startling. Now it is apparently done in teams.</p>

<p>I agree that the editorial quality of the publication leaves something to be desired.</p>

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<p>Yeah, like, what was his major?</p>

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<p>Or his name… It was spelled two different ways.</p>

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<p>Their majors are various types of engineering according to this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.indystar.com/article/20130613/NEWS02/306130082/”>http://www.indystar.com/article/20130613/NEWS02/306130082/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Not sure that high stakes played a factor in this case. </p>

<p>Sounds much more like one student found a way to break in, changed his grades, probably said something like “cool!” when he wasn’t caught, and then proceeded to alter grades for the rest of his senior year classes and those of his two accomplices. </p>

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<p>^ Yes, and I don’t think the students’ being ORM is relevant in any way.</p>

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<p>A four year sentence is a tad harsh. </p>

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<p>It’s 90 days in jail with the rest on probation. I don’t think that’s harsh.</p>

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<p>What a dope and an obnoxious slacker! He changed his grades and decided he thereafter didn’t need to show up for class because his plan was to change all of his marks to “A.”</p>

<p>If folks somehow discover that you have perfect grades, but never see you in class, well that raises suspicion. Unfair? Perhaps. But not unwarranted in this case. I’m guessing that he was widely known by his peers to be a slacker.</p>

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<p>@Erin’sDad – Yep. I missed that part. </p>

<p>It’s not so unusual for students not to show up for class. But yes, hubris is this kid’s middle name.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily depending on course and field. </p>

<p>Many engineering classes my older relatives and friends took were based solely on exams, projects, and/or problem sets. It was common for many such students to get class notes from friends or even pick them up from the departmental offices and only show up to turn in work/take exams and end up with merited grades including As. </p>

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<p>Considering what he did could have easily lead to felony charges on the basis of unauthorized entry and breaking into a computer system that wasn’t their own, he actually got off pretty lightly. </p>

<p>Not to mention it seems they broke into the physical location where the computer was located in order to install the “keyloggers” to gain information to do the rest. </p>

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<p>FTA: “The most troubling thing about this is how brilliant you are and how capable your are to devise this and carry it out”</p>

<p>Installing a keylogger is hardly a brilliant tracking technique. It is really basic.</p>

<p>Also, the article refers to these people as “trio of tricksters”. That is awful. This wasn’t a trick. It was a felony (unauthorized access to computer and networks). So how about “trio of felons” ?</p>