This article cites Yu Mei-ren's sharing of the University of Pretoria's (South Africa) academic philosophy. Posted at the campus entrance, this philosophy strongly advocates the importance of academic integrity, arguing that allowing students to cheat and plagiarize theses will lead to doctors misdiagnosing, architects neglecting duties, financial scandals, political corruption, and judicial injustice, thereby causing a nation to decline and even perish. The author uses this to emphasize that academic ethics are the cornerstone of maintaining a nations normal functioning.
National Taiwan University (NTU) department midterm exams were exposed on Dcard for mass cheating. After the exposure, suspected cheating students pleaded for the matter not to escalate, even offering to pay anything under 1 million NTD. A netizen claiming to be a TA for the department confirmed that the numbers and units on the exam papers were identical, and essay questions were word-for-word the same, indicating clear cheating. The TA promised to announce the handling method in class next Monday, ensuring the rights of diligent students are protected. NTU officials have launched an investigation, and if confirmed, the case will be sent to the Student Disciplinary Committee, with expulsion as the most severe penalty.
A political satire joke circulating online, with no names mentioned, mocks through a student 'Xiaoming' accused of cheating on exams, satirizing how certain politicians habitually use various defenses, obfuscation, deflection, moral coercion, and emotional appeals to ethnicly invoking historical grievances to evade responsibility when facing controversies. The article's ending hints that this evasive trait can actually lead to 'success' in politics.