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Overachiever Gets Jail for Stealing Tests, Hacking Faculty's Computers
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsSANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former high school student seeking admission to top-tier colleges will spend 30 days in jail for a series of school break-ins to steal tests, alter his grades and place spyware on administrators' computers to learn passwords. Omar Shahid Khan, 21, was charged with 69 felonies and faced a maximum of 38 years in prison, but on Monday a superior court judge allowed Khan to plead guilty to five counts. In addition to jail time, he will perform 500 hours of community service and pay $14,900 in restitution to Tesoro High School, located in a wealthy unincorporated area of ...
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NASCAR Penalizes Cup Team, Suspends Crew Chief Indefinitely
By Holly Cain - AOL NewsThree crew members from the No. 46 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team have been suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for major violations found in opening day inspection at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway last weekend. Crew chief Thomas Tucker, car chief Richard Boga and team manager Tony Furr -- a veteran Cup Series team member -- received indefinite suspensions for three rules violations, the most serious involving adding weight pellets to the lower A-Frames of the No. 46 driven by Michael McDowell. McDowell and car owner Dusty Whitney were also penalized 50 championship points. McDowell qualified ...
FBI Employees Cheated on Exams, Justice Department Report Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAs many as 200 FBI employees cheated on an exam judging their skills in criminal or national security operations, operational support and intelligence collection, a Justice Department investigation found. The DOJ inspector general report released Monday concludes that certain test takers used cheat sheets, some consulted with each other during the exam, and others "exploited a programming flaw to reveal the answers to the exam on their computers," Talking Points Memo first reported. The 51-question Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) generally takes about two hours to ...
Opinions Mixed Inside FBI Over Test Cheating Scandal
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 10) -- To cheat or not to cheat on an open-book exam. That is no longer an issue among FBI agents around the country now that the test is long over. Now the question is, should those who did cheat on the FBI exam last year -- and they could number in the hundreds -- be punished? Opinions inside the bureau are mixed and plentiful. "I think someone should get punished," one FBI agent, who asked not to be identified, told AOL News, adding that the instructions for the test on bureau procedures were clear: You had to take it by yourself. "There are agents who worked hard and ...
US College Shuts Asian Schools Over Cheating
By John O. Membrino - AOL News(July 26) -- A New Jersey college is shutting down its business schools in China and Taiwan after finding what it called "widespread" cheating among students, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Centenary College in Hackettstown is withholding master's degrees from some 400 students at its campuses in Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan, Debra Albanese, the school's vice president for strategic advancement, told the newspaper. They can opt to take a comprehensive exam to earn their degree or get a tuition refund. Wikipedia Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., is shutting down its schools in ...
Charter School Lottery Gambles With Kids' Futures -- and Often Loses
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyIt seems like every time I turn over a charter school rock, some unpleasant fact crawls out. That's how I felt after watching "The Lottery," a new documentary about the Harlem Success Academy and its leader, Eva Moskowitz. Like Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Superman," this film addresses the failures of the traditional public school system, in this case zeroing in on a New York City public charter school and the challenges it faces. (Guggenheim offers a broader picture of charter schools in the nation's capital and around the country.) Some of the facts spotlighted in "The Lottery" just ...
World Cup Recap: Philosopher Says Players Should Own Up to What Refs Miss
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsAustralian philosopher (and Princeton professor) Peter Singer has written an interesting essay on cheating and the World Cup. Specifically, he looks at the controversial non-goal in the Germany-England match (which Germany won). Before half time, England's Frank Lampard shot the ball into the crossbar and it then clearly bounced down to the ground, over the goal line. The German goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, grabbed the ball, pulling it back across the line; because the referees did not call a goal, play continued. (Watch the replay here.) Singer writes: After the match, Neuer gave this account ...
Why Men Cheat: Science Says 'New' Women Boost Testosterone
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsAndrew Sullivan links to a blog post on male sexuality by Christopher Ryan, co-author, along with Cacilda Jetha, of the new book "Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality." Ryan looks at the eternal question: Why do men, in particular middle-aged men, have affairs? One's tempted to answer the question -- or a revision of it (why do men sleep with other women -- or men?) -- with Sir Edmund Hillary's response to someone who asked him why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. "Because it's there," he said. Sexual opportunities are out there, too. And while there are myriad reasons ...
One Last Ride for Lance Armstrong as Federal Investigation Looms
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsLance Armstrong, the 38-year-old cancer-surviving seven-time Tour de France winner, announced that this year's tour will be his last on Thursday in Rotterdam. "I've got four kids and a fifth one on the way," Armstrong said. "They would much prefer that I stay at home and ride bikes with them." It's not unexpected, given his age, and the fact that Armstrong has retired before, in 2005, only to return for another shot at the tour last year, where he fell short. If the race is familiar to Armstrong, so too are the accusations that continue to dog him: that he, like many of the sports elite, ...
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