Evidently, the shaping of a future Andrew Fastow or Kenneth Lay starts in school, business school that is. A recent study by Donald McCabe of Rutgers University found that 56% of business grad students fessed up to cheating (and most of those admitted to cheating three or more times in the previous year – evidently, crime does pay). Lest you start thinking better of the pocket protectors located across the street from the business school, engineering grad students admitted to cheating 54% of the time and physical sciences grad students said they cheated 50% of the time. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is starting to make corner-cutting sense now.
What about the most hallowed profession of medicine? A not so hallowed 49% admitted to cheating. Evidently, the Histology for Dummies books don’t help much. And our children – the future of America – will be happy to note that 48% of education grad students cheat, if only so that they can have ammo to win a potential plagiarism argument with their high school English teacher, thereby spawning a yearning interest in law school, where only 45% of the students cheat. That’s veritably saintly compared to those MBA pukes. And finally, the least likely to cheat, the repository of ethics in a cruel and shallow world? Humanities and social sciences grad students. As Mr. Slave would say, “Oh, Jesus Christ.”
December 6, 2006 at 8:19 am |
Having taught undergrads for a few years there… gotta say, not such a pretty state of affairs when they start out in school either! Nothing like a formal chemistry lab report to bring out the cheater in a good chunk of the population! Makes it easier to grade, though… 0!!!