For anyone interested in the topic of Academic Honesty:

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Thursday at 11:00pm AST, on ABC:

CHARLES GIBSON INVESTIGATES THE CHEATING CRISIS IN
AMERICA'S SCHOOLS: FROM PLAGIARISM TO HIGH-TECH GADGETS,
STUDENTS ARE USING OLD METHODS AND NEW TECHNOLOGY TO
BEAT THE SYSTEM

To explore the increasing problem of website plagiarism,
"Primetime" participated in an experiment with a class at
one of the country's best public high schools to find out
just how often students' papers include material that
is not their own. Gibson interviews students, teachers
and ethicists in an effort to determine who may have
the upper hand in this intensifying battle between
academic integrity and dishonesty.

"Primetime's" investigation found cheating on campuses
everywhere -- from top public high schools and colleges
to Ivy League universities.

College students tell Gibson how they use cell phone
cameras and two-way pagers to create high-tech crib notes.
These practices, they insist, are not out of the norm in
academia today.

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Gwendolyn MacNairn
Computer Science Librarian
Dalhousie University
Email: [log in to unmask]