From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/03 Message-ID: <37D04424.16486E1E@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520787100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: e108678@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Aidan Skinner wrote: > Apparently this year has been especially bad for it, all of the > "ancient" Scottish Universities (Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St > Andrews) had problems with this, half of one of Edinburgh's first year > CS course was under investigation at one point. > The bad news is that as this sort of thing gets perceived to be widespread and rampant, the value of a good grade goes down. You can say you graduated from Glasgow in CS with a 4.0 average and folks outside the school will think "Yeah, but so what? Most of the fresh-outs from there got their homework from the Internet, so its easy to get a 4.0" Hence the innocent are dragged down with the guilty. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/