If Barnard is ever insecure about its status as a sidecar-Ivy-League, it can rest comfortably knowing that its students cheat as well as the best of them. Yesterday Columbia’s student blog Bwog reported that students in a large English lecture, Major English Texts II (recalls Texts and Ideas, no?), had cheated on weekly reading quizzes, which the teacher, trusting the college’s Honor Code, had delegated to the students to grade.
According to the Atlantic Wire, the class was open to students in all of Columbia’s undergraduate schools, so it’s possible that some of the alleged cheaters could be Columbia students. (Barnard, though vehemently not Columbia’s “sister school,” shares classes and clubs with the larger institution across the street.)
It is hard not to sympathize with the professor Peggy Ellsberg, who without a TA had little choice but to ask the students for help in grading their exams. Bwog reports that after Ellsberg became suspicious, she took action quickly, taking the quizzes into her possession, eliminating them from her grade book, and changing what will determine the students’ grades. Read more…
On May 3, an NYU Secrets post popped up that read, “Putting together all the money I have left in my wallet, my bank account and my school Id still doesn’t amount to $25. I need to live off that money for the next week or two […] I’m hungry, I’m tired, and I miss home.”
