OT - Student Drug OD Leads to Cheating Allegations

[GreenLantern]

After a student took LSD, ran through a fifth-floor window of a residence hall at George Mason University and plunged to his death in September, campus police opened a drug probe that quickly expanded, according to search warrants.
A GMU police detective discovered George Mason exams on the student’s laptop, according to the newly unsealed court documents, and are investigating the possibility that a president of a school fraternity maintains and distributes a “bank” of such exams.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...90efaf1f1ee_story.html?utm_term=.5faf29a1d8a0

 

[sleeperpick]

very sad.... the last place you should be taking LSD is on the 5th floor of an on campus hall. May he RIP...

SAE will be kicked off (no big loss to the campus) but hopefully the members don't get into any legal trouble for a test bank (not all that illegal unless you are expressly told you aren't allowed to take your returned materials with you)

Sad that a kids death will probably lead to more people getting in trouble that are not the dealer that sold a kid a drug he obviously should have been taking.

 

[GreenLantern]

It also reflects badly on the professors who do not routinely update their exams from year to year. Reuse the same test invites stuff like this.

 

[GMUSig03]

Test banks were very common and helpful during my 7 years of higher education, which were tests from prior semesters/years that the students were allowed to take with them following the exam and were not stolen tests.

Not necessarily cheating.

 

[GreenLantern]

Maybe not cheating but it still reflects poorly on our university

 

[The Great PATSby]

I'm pretty sure if a professor doesn't collect back the graded exams and allows students to take them out of the class, it's then considered authorized study material and not considered cheating. I may be wrong though. I was trying to find verbiage about this in the Honor Code Handbook but came up empty.

 

[KAOriginal]

Isn't "possession" of the material kind of easy in the digital age even if said professor collected the material back...? Not saying it's not cheating but the whole demeanor of protecting the physical material seems a bit funny.

In my day...it was passed along which part time professors taught the same course at other local institutions. So you sometimes get insight on the exam at another campus.

 

[MasonSAE4]

Most of these were passed back and stored essentially as study materials. There was one that wasn’t which is the issue. Or at least most of the issue.

 

[PoorManProfit]

It also reflects badly on the professors who do not routinely update their exams from year to year. Reuse the same test invites stuff like this.

It's low rent and lazy. They are lucky this came out AFTER "Giving Day" (not that the $328K raised was much). Where is the president of the university on this?

 

[mkaufman1]

I'm pretty sure if a professor doesn't collect back the graded exams and allows students to take them out of the class, it's then considered authorized study material and not considered cheating. I may be wrong though. I was trying to find verbiage about this in the Honor Code Handbook but came up empty.

Yeah- honestly the teachers who freely distribute their exams, its up to them to make sure their tests are changed or whatever. Most of the upper level classes that at are major specific usually have them under tight lock and key. Accounting was one of those subjects where I don't think anyone could see a darn thing unless they took a picture or ran out.

 

[GreenLantern]

SAE Frat member arrested for supplying LSD to student who later died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...6d4bc32f223_story.html?utm_term=.94db0dc2b6d5

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

SAE Frat member arrested for supplying LSD to student who later died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...6d4bc32f223_story.html?utm_term=.94db0dc2b6d5

I've done acid (in fact I'm on it right now) and I have to ask: Can this really be suicide? When the kid was tripping, he may have actually thought he could fly. That' not suicide, its just an unfortunate delusional reaction to a psychedelic drug.

Also, I AM the Lizard King

 

[phoenix-arizona]

I can do anything (Goo goo g'joob).

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

I can do anything (Goo goo g'joob).

 

[GreenLantern]

I've done acid (in fact I'm on it right now) and I have to ask: Can this really be suicide? When the kid was tripping, he may have actually thought he could fly. That' not suicide, its just an unfortunate delusional reaction to a psychedelic drug.

Also, I AM the Lizard King

I would most likely rule an accidental death. The kid did have depression but under that stuff, you really have no control or judgement.

 

[NewPatriot]

Also, I AM the Lizard King

Riders in the storm...in this house we're born....don't love her madly..whIle she's walkin out the door!!!!