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Here is a copy of an email I sent to my TAs tonight:

I must say, I am so tired of the amount of cheating that's going on in the astronomy labs. I thought I'd seen all of the variations - changing font type/size, printing in landscape instead of portrait (egads), being one's own lab partner. But now I have received a lab report where the only individual work done was the typing of the student's name, the sketch of the Moon, and printing out the paper.

The observations section was cut and pasted directly from the lab script - oh wait, she had deleted all of the "you"s in the directions and had replaced them with nothing! The results section, answering questions on a geologic history of the moon, was copied and pasted from the Artemis project. First link on Google - a masterful job of cheating, indeed. (Note to cheaters: don't use "plagioclase crystals", titanium ratios, and "KREEP" when getting relative ages of the surface of the Moon by the principle of superposition.)

Next semester, I'm seriously thinking of replacing the formal typewritten lab reports with tablets inscribed with the student's own blood in the TA's presence.

Grrr....

Oh, don't worry...she'll regret the day she ever chose to cheat in my class.

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