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Cheating, Ethical Violations Growing

RALEIGH—Unethical behavior is rampant on college campuses and in society today, the director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University said Monday. A survey of college-bound seniors in 1998 revealed that many young people do not perceive cheating as a serious ethical problem. Many of them have taken part in unauthorized collaboration on school projects, copied information without proper citations, or falsified laboratory results. Similarly, one-third of employees reportedly observe misconduct at work, such as lying, withholding of information, using intimidation, and misusing company money.

Jenna Ashley Robinson
Opinion

Call. 98: New technologies enable cheaters, detectors in a matter of keystrokes

Rapid changes in technology are providing students with newer, easier, and quicker ways to cheat. They are also making it easier for teachers to detect cheating. Perhaps the most well-known way of cheating in the Digital Age is through what are called "on-line paper mills," web sites that provide ready-made term papers on thousands of topics for a per-paper fee.

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