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- From: hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Subject: Re: Taking exams?
- Message-ID: <hdev.727811494@dutiag>
- Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Dutiws News Administration)
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <1993Jan21.160756.63009@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jan21.192842.288@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <hdev.727700672@dutiai> <1993Jan23.014317.11449@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:51:34 GMT
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- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
-
- >In article <hdev.727700672@dutiai> hdev@dutiai.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught) writes:
-
- >>The word of
- >>one man against another doesn't work in court. Even worse, since you accuse
- >>him of cheating, you'll have to supply the evidence. If not, well, how much
- >>money can you get from a slander law suit?
-
- >Hmm. Perhaps the professor should say nothing, but be allowed to require
- >the student to take another exam, covering the same material. This puts an
- >undue hardship on the professor, but at least gets rid of the legal
- >problems.
-
- Not over here. States laws prohibits universities to make even such a rule.
-
- >>[stuff about students in the Netherlands suing teachers]
-
- >Yikes. Some people take their civil liberties a little too seriously. Or
- >perhaps some jurors have their heads screwed on backwards...
-
- Actually over here (and many other countries as well) we only have trial by
- judge, not by jury. A jury is more likely to disbelieve the cheaters if they
- say they didn't cheat regardless if they did or did not cheat. So the jury is
- unlawfully biased against the cheaters. In a trial by judge the judge is
- impartial (well in theory). He has no choice but to presume that the cheaters
- are innocent (although he knows they are guilty as hell).
- --
- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- hdev@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
-