April 24, 2008 - 12:00am
We are a bunch of sorry cheaters. We live in a world where increased access to the Internet and the erosion of public morals combine in a brutal cocktail that amounts to a noxious potion of cheating stew. Our generation is a generation in crisis — or at least that’s what the old folks around here would have us believe.
This past February, Dean of Faculty (and all-around standup guy) Charlie Walcott declared that the University “fundamentally” has a problem of academic integrity.
“We live in a world where there has been an increasing amount of dishonesty and malfeasance of one form or another,” Walcott said.