True family values, or their lack, make a difference

[snopes]

It used to be funny. University of North Carolina students used to tell an apocryphal story about a student in a large survey class who was caught cheating on his final by a professor. Since UNC's honor code in those days prohibited proctoring by faculty (students had to be trusted to self-police), all the professor could do was challenge the miscreant to turn himself in.

"Don't you know who I am?" the student asked defiantly.

"I don't care who you are," the prof answered.

"You mean to tell me you don't know who I am?"

"No, it doesn't matter. You need to handle this."

"In that case ..." the anonymous student said, as he shoved his blue book somewhere into the stack of completed exams, flung them into the air, and then fled out the door, knowing he could expect the teacher to dutifully grade all the exams anyway.

Every university has its own stories.

At Harvard, the urban legend has it that a student copied a paper from a roommate on "The Nature of War" and used it in five different classes to get five good grades. Yalies tell of a student who pilfered exams directly out of the university print shop to prepare answers before the test was given.

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/sports/story/29854.html

[Pudding Crawl]

AIIEEEEE, PE teachers as moral crusaders... I'm going back to bed.

[Elkhound]

Originally Posted by Pudding Crawl

AIIEEEEE, PE teachers as moral crusaders... I'm going back to bed.

Well, as the article points out, the young people have to get it from someone. It is, of course, preferable that it come from their parents or their faith community, but better from a sports coach than from nobody.

[jespur62]

I like the one that ends where his soul rots in hell for eternity for being a cheat AND a butthole.

[fitz1980]

College athletics to teach the value of fair play and not cheating? This is the same institution where kids are given free stuff, up to and including cash and expensive cars in order to get them to go to a particular school. This is the same institute where teachers are pressured to pass star athletes so that they can play in the big game or sometimes they will set up "gimme classes" for athletes who can barely read so that they can keep their GPA up.

[Azzizi]

Originally Posted by snopes

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/sports/story/29854.html

I saw this story in Reader's Digest several years ago in one of its joke sections.