Cheating by College Students

Moore’s article claims that over 75% of all college students have cheated at least once. I have no reason to doubt that statement. Another statement by the author, however, is hard to accept. In that one he blames student cheating on schools’ requirement for boring subjects, professors who are uninspiring and professors who signal “students that they have little to lose by cheating.”

First, it seems impossible to make every subject appealing to every student. Next, no one should expect every professor to be a Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan. And finally, I wonder why the student doesn’t feel a loss of personal pride in cheating.

Will these students take their personal integrity and ethics into their careers and become the next Ivan Boeskys, Michael Milkens or Charles Keatings?

JOHN DOZIER

Manhattan Beach