Cheating at Air Force Academy

note that "test answers were advertised on the social networking site Facebook.com..."

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Cadet: Test answers were posted on Web site

Campus on lockdown over the weekend

By Seamus O’Connor - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Feb 9, 2007 21:17:26 EST

The cheating scandal at the Air Force Academy has led officials there to declare a weekend lockdown for all cadets, confining all students to campus while administrators investigate a mass violation of the academy’s honor code....

The Air Force Academy is investigating 28 freshmen cadets — some of them athletes on the school’s sports teams — who are accused of cheating on a weekly test.

Nineteen have admitted to cheating on the Jan. 31 test, called a Fourth Class Knowledge Test, and another nine are suspected of wrongdoing......

A second-year cadet, who spoke to Air Force Times on condition of anonymity, said the test answers were advertised on the social networking site Facebook.com. ......

“An upperclassman was using Facebook to let the freshmen know, if they needed the answers.... that they could get in touch with them,” the cadet said.

The cadet said the cheating process was “kind of commonly known [among cadets], that the intercollegiate athletes do retain some kind of advantage.” Previously, the cadet said, there was no way to identify who was involved.

But this time, “because it was on Facebook, the evidence was very concrete. You could tell who had accessed the site,” the cadet said....more>>