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If Enron has taught UCLA students anything, it’s that
cheating gets you ahead ““ until you get caught. But unlike
Enron, most students who cheat don’t get caught. This not
only hurts the students who sell themselves short, but also the
students who work honestly for their grades.
As troubling as it is, it’s easy to see why students
resort to cheating. For some, cheating represents the quickest and
easiest way to getting a good grade. This is especially true when
students take classes that have little bearing on their major, or
classes such as overcrowded general education requirements for
which they have little academic interest. Cheating, in a very
skewed way, becomes rationale: even though it’s ethically and
morally wrong, it gets you a better grade upon success.
In order to prevent these students from cheating, professors and
TAs have to make it seem less rationale. They can do this by using
larger classrooms for midterms and finals to create more separation
between students, and by using more proctors during exams. Curbing
cheating will require more resources, but this is a fight worth
funding if the university wants to maintain academic integrity. At
the same time, professors and TAs can take more initiative by
apprehending students who are cheating and referring them to
university officials. This will teach all students that the
convenient way into success doesn’t always work ““ and
it maintains the academic honesty that should characterize a
quality university.