Rice University Cheating

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3 a.) My third and final source discusses a case in which more twenty-two Rice University students were found cheating on a lower-level physics final exam. The majority of the students were varsity athletes. The physics professor Arthur Few said he charged the students with cheating on the take-home, open-note, and open-book exam because most of the answers were the same on several exams. 14 of the students received an “F” for the course and were suspended for semesters. This, however, is not the first time that Rice University has dealt with academic fraud of student athletes. In 1991, 28 students (mostly athletes) were found of cheating on a quiz in a lower-level science class. This is what sparked a change in the Rice honor code. A committee

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