Randyll Roberts

Assignment #2

9/2/2012




               My blog will discuss the problems that students and faculty faced at Harvard with a final

that was taken in May. The article is named "Allegations of widespread cheating in government class

probed at Harvard." The article was written by By Julia Talanova and Jason Kessler with CNN. The

main audience they intended to focus on seemed to be the faculty and to reach out to the other

schools about how even a top notch school such as Harvard can even deal with issues that seem

to be more elementary.

The main focus with the authors were to to show the readers that schools all over face problems of

cheating and with schooling issues. Harvard is possibly the best school in the country and they even

deal with issues with schooling. Issues as big as almost 300 students cheating on a take home test that

the students were given the option to open book and open notes. The students of one of the top Ivy

league programs is having to check the students of the school for a class on the intro to justice to see

if students who did cheat should have to sit out a year of school.

The authors recieved information from the faculty on campus to get a better understanding of what

was going on with situation and too know what the punishment or outcome of the situation would

be if the students were found guilty of cheating or plagarism on the test. The school has been

investigating the issue sense may and with the school week starting the next week they will

quickly have to come to conclusion on if the students are guilty of false testing and if they will

be allowed to take apart in the next academic semester or if they will have to wait till the

following year to pick back up in academic affairs.