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CONT'D: The theories behind cheating

other spheres of life. One
wouldn't be surprised to find
that the same brain circuits
underlying drug addiction are
responsible for academic dis-
honesty.
In fact, cheating in college
has been linked to drug abuse,
along with shoplifting, unethi-
cal workplace behavior and not
paying income taxes.
The cheating study group
creates a framework that gives
primary and secondary impor-
tance to the various factors that
lead a student to cheat.

As engineers are wont to do,
they confine reality and common
sense into fanciful but impres-
sive flowcharts. A box labeled
"peer behavior" is connected to
another one labeled "frequency
of temptation."
A particularly intriguing
result of their surveys was stu-
dents' dissociation between
belief and behavior. Most stu-
dents find cheating morally
reprehensible, but very few do
anything about it when they
see it. Some may approach the
cheater directly, and 5 percent

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rt the instructor. Some in the political science depart-
ewspaper columns. And ment and the Ford School
of Public Policy, wrote "The
Evolution of Cooperation," in
ow do you which he used computer mod-
els to explore what happens
iantify the to populations of cheaters and
cooperators.
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rlotives for to be too innocent, because
groups of cheats could easily
leCeption. move in and take over. However,
groups of crooks would likewise
cannibalize themselves. The
ent do nothing. population would thus bounce

QUOTES OF THE WEEK
jThe word today is that
an apparently unbeat-
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Hillary for president
and Obama as her run-
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- FIDEL CASTRO on how Hillary Clinton
and Barack Obama should team up to win the
2008 presidential election.

Robert Axelrod, a professor

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Three things you can talk about this week:
1. 200-yard spider webs
2. Larry Craig and not asking or telling
3. Intimidation charges
And three things you can't:
1. The M.I.P. you got dur-
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YOUTUBE
VIDEO OF
THE WEEK
The effectiveness
of French sex ed
In three minutes, to the tune of
"Sugar Baby Love," a French com-
munity service commercial does
more to promote condom use than
years of public school sexual edu-
cation.
The video follows a computer
animated gay boy from the time
that he's ostracized on the play-
ground to the years he's exploring
the dating field - using proper pro-
tection.
After passing up a gaggle of eye-
batting girls, the boy finds first love
in a sun-kissed surfer dude, then
first lust and first rejection in a
dance club Don Juan.
Heartbroken and confused, our
protagonist staggers through a
series of eccentric trysts, each a
disappointing, albeit, safe lesson in
love.
Butaftersomelacklustermachis-
mo and deceptive rich old men, the
boy finds a prince in the form of a
dashing, convertible-driving doc-
tor, illustrating the commercial's
final message: Vivez assez long-
temps pour trouver le bon. Protegez-
vous. (Live long enough to find the
one. Protectyourself.)
- JESSICA VOSGERCHIAN
See this and other
YouTube videos of the week at
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"I withdrew from the case
because I was scared."
- KAREN ETCHEBERY, a London call girl, on why
she dropped assault charges against a nephew of
Libyan president Moammar Qaddafi.
"We're not getting too much
new blood in the shrimp
industry, so I guess we have
to manufacture our own."
- ED KEISEL, a Texan shrimp boat captain, after he
delivered the premature baby of his boat's cook
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Mary Sue Coleman (born October 2,1943 in Kentucky) is the cur-
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Coleman also serves on the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson
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Coleman followed her predecessor Lee Bollinger in supporting
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Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed by a 16-percent margin, result-
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and its diversity.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual survey on
executive compensation in public universities, Coleman is the fifth-
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