It s equivalent to having tests on reserve at the library, Hernandez said. The only time it is cheating is if someone has a test the professor does not allow outside the classroom. Professors can either change their tests or require that students hand them back. Hernandez alone comprises the bureau that handles university cheating cases. Much of his job involves replying to calls on methods to deal with alleged cheaters.
Most inquiries come in waves, following midterms and finals every semester.
Jason said his only cheating endeavors came in a journalism ethics course. Since the professor required verbatim definitions, he brought two blue books into an exam, one of which had the definitions written in beforehand. He copied the definitions into the empty blue book and discarded the blue book full of answers. It s kind of funny that I would cheat in an ethics class, Jason said. Cheating was brought to the national spotlight last year when the Naval Academy had what is believed to be its biggest cheating scandal ever.