Student Faces Expulsion Hearing for Facebook Study Group

CDsDontBurn · Mar 8, 2008, 08:52 AM

Ryerson University cracks down on students studying online

Chris Avenir, a first-year chemical engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, is facing academic expulsion after being called out as the administrator for a Facebook-based Chemistry study group. Titled “Dunegons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions,” after a campus engineering study room dubbed “The Dungeon,” Avernir’s group had 146 other students who used it to swap tips on homework and test questions in the school’s chemistry program.

Source: Daily Tech

**Mousey** · Mar 8, 2008, 12:30 PM

Wow and i thought my school were fascists when it came to internet usage o.0
That is absolutely ridiculous, the administrators there have definately over-stepped their bounds and it's not fair

RobertBruce · Mar 8, 2008, 01:18 PM

" who used it to swap tips on homework and test questions "
Uhh.... that is cheating. They should all be booted.

**dj_stick** · Mar 8, 2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by RobertBruce

" who used it to swap tips on homework and test questions "
Uhh.... that is cheating. They should all be booted.

not necessarily - from the sounds of it it's exactly the same has hosting a study group in a library or someone's house, just online…

i don't agree with this personally

YAYitsAndrew · Mar 8, 2008, 07:21 PM

My college had a pretty strict honor code. If you worked with someone on your homework, you had to cite them. Most classes that had multiple sections either tested everyone at the same time or changed the test for each class. They knew that students talk almost instantly after the classes to pass on what happened to later sections. If section A had a pop quiz, sections B-F knew about it and attendance skyrocketted. To get around this teachers usually fuck with people's heads and give the pop quiz randomly to certain groups and pick up the rest at a later date.

To anyone who's been in college, to think that test answers, homework answers, and advance knowledge weren't being passed around freely in a facebook group of 146 members... well that's naive.

Judas · Mar 8, 2008, 08:06 PM

imo this is bullshit...

**Mousey** · Mar 8, 2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by RobertBruce

" who used it to swap tips on homework and test questions "
Uhh.... that is cheating. They should all be booted.

Bullshit, they're swapping tips not answers, read what you've just put ffs..

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RobertBruce HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 255 Rep Power: 44 System Specs	" who used it to swap tips on homework and test questions " Uhh.... that is cheating. They should all be booted.