how times have changed--when i was in college we signed a pledge on every exam that "we know of no cheating on this test." No professor or invigilator was ever allowed to be in an exam. (this actually made exams kind of fun--scantily clad women(at that point it was an all male school)would walk thru the exam room, sometime enticing someone to leave(prepplanned--that person wasn't taking the course))--people would pass around beer,etc.) But if anyone was caught cheating, they were expelled and any record of them having ever been enrolled at Princeton was erased--they became a nonentity. The automatic punishment for plagiarism was a year's expulsion--you left for a year and returned to join the next year's class--there were no exceptions. Those behaviors and their consequences were know by all from day one. There are honest mistakes and dishonest mistakes--there is such a thing as integrity,
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