[geeks] Academic Stupidity

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>Date: 2008/03/07 Fri PM 02:57:17 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Academic Stupidity

>Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/309855
>> 
>> This Luddite professor needs to be strung up by the balls.
>> 
>
>It is especially moronic in that the stuff he worked on, only counted 
>for 10 percent of his marks.
>
>If the professor was so mad about it, just give the kids 0/10 for that 
>part of their marks, making any work he did or did not do, a moot point.

By lowering the penalty to a few lost grade points, the barrier to cheating 
drops to a very low level (again, as always, IMHO).

Lionel