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BDS: Cheating on dental test is Bush’s fault?
Just when you thought you’d seen it all (emphasis added):
>Nearly half the students in the Indiana University School of Dentistry’s second-year class have been disciplined for their roles in a cheating scandal in which students broke into password-protected files to view exam material before tests.
The school’s Faculty Council voted Friday to dismiss nine of the students, suspend 16 for periods ranging from three to 24 months and issue letters of reprimand to 21 students for violating the school’s professional conduct code. The class has 95 students.
Cheating students took advantage of e-mails that professors sent a few days before tests, administrators said. Those messages contained password-protected images, such as X-rays, that were part of the exams.
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Academic integrity experts say dental students, who spend four years in school, are no different from others when it comes to honesty.
“I see this as being a widespread problem, not just in dentistry,” said Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has written about the ethics of dental education.
“When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what’s happening with weapons of mass destruction, or CEOs who lie about where the money is going, I think the general public gets the idea that anything that makes money is what’s right.”
You mean like prominent global warming alarmists (and others) who profit (prophet?) off of screaming that the world will end soon unless people ‘do something about it!!!!’? Or a Democratic presidential candidate who made a mysterious $100K profit (a near 10,000% investment in ten months) on cattle futures?
Clearly, Dr. Koerber believes that the people we place in leadership positions in our society greatly influence the younger generation. With that in mind, I wonder how she views Bill and Hillary Clinton from a historical, influential perspective?
Not too hard to guess on that one, eh?
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You mean like prominent global warming alarmists (and others) who profit (prophet?) off of screaming that the world will end soon unless people ‘do something about it!!!!
Like that, yes…
I’m a Lefty, and I wish that other Lefties wouldn’t say stuff like this. It makes people less willing to listen to our Hollow Earth theories and stories of alien abductions.
Excuse me while I go make a new tinfoil hat.
I do think many students suffer from an almost hysterical belief (largely induced by their parents) that you only get one chance to succeed, and if you fall off the kindergarten-to-grad-school-to-career conveyor belt at any time, you won’t be able to get back on. This is obviously false, as any serious study of the career paths of successful people will demonstate, but the belief seems to be growing.
I’m one of those who have failed several times and still have not given up. This time I’m actually going to graduate…
Congrats, Vegas! You’ve got something the cheaters don’t – perseverance. Believe me, it’ll come in handy often.
Clearly, Dr. Koerber believes that the people we place in leadership positions in our society greatly influence the younger generation.
And apparently she doesn’t think too highly of the old, outmoded concept of personal responsibility.
Sounds very much like your garden-variety liberal moral relativist. Not the first person you’d go to for advice on ethical behavior.
This was also in the linked article:
In other words, don’t just play defense and try to make the electronic systems bullet-proof. Go after the problem on its home turf: the students’ norms and standards.
You know, I applied for a federal law enforcement job about 8 years ago, but I didn’t get it. I’ll bet it’s all Bush’s fault!!! Then the cashier at the grocery store gave me the wrong change, that’s his fault too!!
Then while I was driving home, I kept hitting the red light at every single traffic light I came too!!! Now, that HAS to be his fault!!!!
Then while I was driving home, I kept hitting the red light at every single traffic light I came too!!! Now, that HAS to be his fault!!!!
Of course it that’s Bush’s fault NC! Don’t you know that Bush is in the pocket of the evil Big Oil. They want you stopping at all the lights, as that way you have to use more oil, which means that they get record profits, and start wars for oil around the globe! It’s just more proof of the conspiracy that Bush is leading. He’s an idiot you know, a chimp! That’s why he can mastermind a convoluted international conspiracy of epic proportions, because he’s an idiot! How can people not see this??!!?
You know for such a moron, a monkey boy everyone keeps calling the president, he really seems to be everywhere and doing everything.
I mean I have never heard of someone being responsible for the worlds troubles like he has.
- tornado strikes? Bush’s fault.
- hurricane strikes? Bush’s fault.
- lose an election in your district? Bush’s fault.
- get caught cheating? Bush’s fault.
- terrorists bomb in UK, Italy, Spain, ect? Bush’s fault.
There is no end to what people will blame on the President.
I mean, hell, I didn’t overly like Clinton, he did have some good qualities, but I didn’t see republicans blaming everything under the sky on Clinton – and Carter is a complete screw up, but I never saw everything in the world being blamed on Carter either.
Can hatred be that wide spread amongst the nutjobs that personal responsibility is no longer a factor that it is Bush’s fault?
I think the biggest things in America that is killing us as a nation is this PC mentality and the lack of personal responsibility.
Ronald Reagan, while he was governor of California, was once accused of causing a rise in pregnancies among teens. “Thanks for the compliment,” he quipped, “I never felt so young and virile”.
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Nice words David.
– A 36 year old grad student
I admire your perseverance Vatar, you’ll appreciate the degree and knowledge all the more for the difficulty in obtaining them. I still always think about Chief Lone Wadi in “The Outlaw Josey Wales” – Endeavor to persevere!”
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