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From: dgreen@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Honor System for tests
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 16:20:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 16:20:58 1984
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The University of Michigan Engineering Department has an honor system.  It works
exactly the way Beth Nelson's honor system works.  I have never heard of a UM
engineering student cheating on an exam and getting away with it.  The reason 
it works is not necessarily because you have to write the pledge.

Since having the proctor out of the room is an expression of trust, students 
who observe cheating consider it a moral issue.  In places that do not use an 
honor system, cheating can be seen as a way to reject authority.  And, as many 
of us know, students love to reject authority.

By the way, the University of Michigan is a state-sponsered university, and is
huge (40,000 students total).

Dan Greening (UCLA)