Social Status and Cheating

In the J.D. Heyman essay "Psst...What's the Answer?" Elizabeth Laurie paid her room mate an extraordinary amount of money to write her papers and do her homework. Of course, most of us would see this as cheating and most would expect her to have her diploma taken away, or kicked out of college immediately. Her case is now under investigation, which will probably end up settled out of court for an even bigger amount of money to let Elizabeth keep her diploma. It seems to be like this in sports too...especially baseball in my eyes. Perhaps UPJ should adopt a similar punishment system, close to that of MLB. The MLB rules about steroids in baseball are somewhere in the ball park of first offense) 15 game suspension second suspension) 30 game suspension and third offense) ban from the game for life. They are suspending players but not kicking them out because of all the money involved. UPJ could follow the same guidelines but since we can not pay students to go here, there are ways to punish the student but not kick them out. So I figure UPJ's rules about plagiarism should be first offense) meal card suspension 2 weeks second offense) grounding the student to his/her dorm room and finally third offense) expulsion from class and possibly university.
Will this plan ever go into effect, of course not, but I think something needs to be done about cheating in sports. Stop giving professionals and celebrities "lives" with cheating and let the kids see that, and then when they get to high school and college all they hear is the "no tolerance" policy.

Cheating in Society

once students reachcollege, he/she is given so much responsibility that it can sometimes scare them. While living alone, students can choose to make decisions they would not normally make because they do not have to answer to their parents. One of the decisions is usually cheating. Some will admit it and some won't, but truthfully everyone has cheated on their schoolwork at some point in their life. Where the argument comes into play however is: what exactly is cheating. In the Nathan essay, most students think cheating is ok when the expectations of the class are "unreasonable". This is exactly where I'm going to tear these kids apart. Every college in the country allows students to pick their classes, and one way or another, a student can find out what the class is all about. Whether it is http://www.ratemyprofessor.com or just talking to people who have taken the class before, anyone can learn the expectations of the class/teacher/and workload. All of these kids who say "The teacher is too mean" or "There is too much work"..... DON'T TAKE THE CLASS. I really can't put it any simpler. Even though the line between right and wrong is sometimes skewed because for whatever reason they took a class that they knew they would not like or would not be able to keep up with.