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12 UM students accused of high-tech cheating
6 admit using Web devices to link to site during exam
By Stephanie Hanes, Sun Staff, January 26, 2003
<http://www.sunspot.net/news/education/bal-md.cheating26jan26,0,3792093.story?coll=bal-local-headlines>

Twelve University of Maryland undergraduates have been accused of
using Web-equipped cell phones or handheld organizers to cheat on a
business school final exam last month, according to the school's
student-run Honor Council.  Six of them have admitted to misconduct
during that same test, the council said.
...
The students in the business exam are accused of using their cell
phones and handheld computers to go to a Web site where a professor
had posted answers to the exam, Cantor said. The answers were
apparently intended for students to check their work after the final.
...
Copyright © 2003, The Baltimore Sun

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