1/11/08

Article: The Art of College Management: Cheating
By: Rebekah Nathan

After reading this text I find it to be very valuable and intriguing. The fact that the article is based off of cheating in college allows it to relate to a topic college students know about and that it is going on. I get the vibe that Nathan is not necessarily saying a lot of negative or wrong statements about cheating, but instead she is talking about and making statistics on reasons for why college students cheat. I feel as though My thought of Nathan's thesis statement, "Cheating is an active part of classic college culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains so in the twenty- first, as schools across the country report high levels of academic dishonesty," shows a large picture of what her article represents. As well as when she tells us about some of the comments that students said about when they were asked if it is okay to cheat. I feel as though the comments that the few students answered don't not only answer the questions, but they also show that students really do feel as though they have proper excuses and maybe it is the universities that need to find answers to their reasons. Nathan listed the four reasons that should be taken into consideration of why students cheat and i really feel as though those may be good statements and understandable excuses sometimes; however, any of those excuses could be said every time someone cheats because they are so broad and easy to have a story about. The fact that this article is both quantitative and qualitative make is very interesting and an easy read to follow. I feel as though this topic that she talked about and majority of the statements she said in it are very true. Students in college cheat everyday and it is not fair and seen by these students who do not cheat and are in college to be taught how to learn and understand for the educations and knowledge they are trying to biuld. These students who cheat themselves into an education will be the same ones cheating at future jobs and down the road in their future lives.