BACKPAGE POLL

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The Thresher recently published an article citing a survey that said cheating was on the decline here at Rice. In an effort to gauge the true feelings of the Rice community (and take up space misclass usually does), the editors of the Backpage have conducted an informal poll of their own. Here are some of the responses ...

What do you think about cheating at Rice?

Packster
Honor Council Sellout

"As a member of the '96-'97 Honor Council, I think that the Honor Code is an integral ... who the fuck am I kidding? Everybody here cheats. Do I cheat? Hell yes! I spend my weekends sitting around with my friends trying to figure new and creative ways to cheat. I copy, plagiarize and even bribe profs. I'm always a little nervous I'll get caught because I can't help snickering every time I sign the honor pledge which, by the way, I write on my hand before tests."

Tony 69
Campus Tool

"There I was, in the middle of my take-home economics exam, minding my own business, when I heard the voices. I looked around and realized they were coming from my econ book. `Tony,' it said, `Open me! Open me!' `But the test is closed book,' I responded. The book didn't care. It just kept talking and talking and talking. So I cheated. So what? I cheat to make the voices stop, OK? For the love of Jesus, can't somebody make the voices stop?"

Mary
God's Daughter

"Everyone needs something to stand for. That is why I am making it my mission in 1996 to hunt down every cheater at Rice and hurt them. And, when I say `hurt,' I'm not talking about emotional or academic pain. I'm talking about a good, old-fashioned ass-whupping. The Honor Council? They're a bunch of bleeding heart candy-asses. I know if I break enough skulls on this campus, kids are gonna start realizing that cheating only hurts the cheater."

Copyright 1996 by Backpage, Inc. Any unauthorized republication is strictly forbidden. Look at you. Don't you have anything better to do than read the small print on the back of this page? You're pathetic. I have to drink a fifth of whiskey just to forget how sorry and miserable you are. Go get a job or a girlfriend or something. I am sickened by your presence on this campus. Transfer to a school that is as lame as you are.

This item appeared in the Backpage section of the April 12, 1996 issue.

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