<p>I’m not na</p>
<p>The whole North Carolina area seems to be plagued by cheating scandals as of late. Earlier this year, there was the big cheating thing at Chapel Hill HS and now this. And I agree, Duke should have had a stricter punishment for those caught cheating. In my opinion, they should have been kicked out of Fuqua and not received degrees.</p>
<p>One thing that first years ought to keep in mind. </p>
<p>Many first-years do not know how to cite properly. When you are assembling a group paper at the last minute, besides your usual grammar and spell checks, do try to find the time to check for proper citation (Google search, for instance). One person screwing up can destroy the rest of the group’s effort.</p>
<p>I don’t get how citation disasters occur.</p>
<p>I mean, to me there are two types of citation problems – failure to give credit and rigourous sourcing. (I am more familiar with violations of the second being an admin on Wikipedia.) </p>
<p>But I’ve always sort of mentioned ideas I have heard without remembering where I originally heard them from. For example, if I mention that structural similarities between Old Chinese and Proto-Indo-European are strong enough to suggest prehistoric interactions, and go on to develop my own interpretations, but I’ve come to accept the idea so much as canon [for me] that I forget that I originally heard the idea from say, the Sino-Platonic papers, what would be the penalty? I would probably be asked to source out of scientific rigour, but would a plagiarism charge stick?</p>
<p>Cheating at a business school is different from cheating at an undergraduate institution. At UVa, almost all people kicked out for cheating can apply to other schools fairly easily. Business students, however, cannot transfer to another school and thus are left with a huge amount of debt and vastly limited career opportunities.</p>