SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Twenty-five San Diego State University business students got F's for cheating. The class? Ethics.
About a third of those enrolled in a business ethics course were caught using answers to a quiz last month. All were given failing grades for the course and most were placed on probation.The scandal was reported this week in the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, and in today's San Diego Union-Tribune.
"What did I learn? Obviously not to cheat. It's not worth it," one student told the Union-Tribune.
Lecturer Brian D. Cornforth said he set a trap to catch cheaters after receiving a tip that students were using answers they culled from tests given to an earlier session of the class.
"A line must be drawn in the sand," he said. "This is just too egregious, it's too heinous a cheating scandal."
Julie Logan, the university's judicial procedures officer, said the case was unusual because of the number of students involved: "Most of my cheating cases are just one person making the decision to cheat on their own."