Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Where were they then?

From the show that started it all (and by 'it all' I mean America's obsession with lip-synching pre-teen popstars), I bring you the stars of Kids Incorporated....

Then:

Stacy and Love on the set


And now:


Jennifer Love Hewitt


Fergie

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Don't be like the MBA students

Just a bit of advice I'd like to give my colleagues who are in the very midst of their final round of finals.

So Duke has produced some winners this year, hasn't it (a-hem-lacrosseteam)? Have you ever wondered how it would even be possible to cheat on an open-book, take-home exam? Well, here's how to not...

Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school’s history.

The final was an open-book test in a required course in March, with students told to take the exam on their own. But many students collaborated, in violation of the school’s honor code, according to a ruling last week by the judicial board of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke.

School officials declined to identify the course, the professor or the students, citing confidentiality in judicial board matters. But they indicated that the professor had noticed similarities in the answers by the students, who are candidates for a master’s in business administration.

Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling, which was distributed within the business school on Friday. Fifteen students were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course; nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four students accused of cheating were exonerated.