Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times

Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times: "The official blue examination booklet at UCLA, where I teach, requires students to affix their signatures to a clause swearing that they have not committed 'academic dishonesty.' The penalty for transgression, it warns, is suspension or dismissal. Yet instead of dropping it there, the credo continues and the tone shifts. 'There are alternatives to academic dishonesty,' it suggests, and counsels that the student see a professor or dean 'to discuss other choices.'"