Cheating scandal snares nearly half of IU dental class

Nearly half the students in the Indiana University School of Dentistry's second-year class have been disciplined for their roles in a cheating scandal in which students broke into password-protected files to ...

[Disappointed]

This is disappointing to hear. It'd be nice to have a list so that I don't choose one of these students to work on my teeth. I want them to KNOW what they're doing, not just "practice" on me. What about virtue? What about morals and conscience? Sheesh.

[We have a winner]

said Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has written about the ethics of dental education.
"When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what's happening with weapons of mass destruction...."
The honored doctor pins this scandal on the President(as well as the CIA, MI5, French, German, Russian Intelligence, et al). People I've talked to thought it was due to global warming or daylight savings time. Thank you, Doctor Koerber.

[We have a winner]

said Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has written about the ethics of dental education.
"When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what's happening with weapons of mass destruction...."

The honored doctor pins this on the President as well as the CIA, MI5, French, German, Russian Intelligence, et al. People I've talked to thought it was due to global warming or daylight savings time. Thank you, Doctor Koerber.

[cicero resident]

A cheating Dentist, what has this world come to?

[Uh Clem]

Gee, I should have KNOWN it wasn't a bunch of unethical young adults looking for the easy path instead of working for their degrees.

But of course, we NEVER had problems like this before President Bush. How did I fail to make the connection?

Someone should check Dr. Koerber's credentials.

[leopard77girl]

Thanks for the positive posts!

[Purdue pete]

interested

[tarzan]

Survival of the fittest is what I say. The students wanted a good score. In order to secure that score they found a way to give them an upper hand. They used their brains and came up with an alternate route. They cracked the code and accomplished their goal. Now, they may not make a good dentist, but they would make GREAT businessmen.

[paisleyposey]

Everyone who wants a dentist who had to cheat to pass dental school, working in your mouth, say "I"!!

[IU Dentist]

In our defense most of our patients in southern indiana only have a couple teeth anyway, so learning about the rest of them is a waste of time.

[Interested Reader]

It's a matter of integrity and ethics. People shouldn't be so ready to take the "easy" way out. I pray that I never sit for a dentist that cheated on exams.

[Future Grad]

These kids are just following what their environment has taught them: get it by any means necessary...Well someone said it correctly, "It's not cheating unless you get caught," they got caught. You can't blame Bush on this one even though he got in office by any means necessary (stealing Florida)! You can' blame Bill Clinton, even though what's done in the private has a profound effect in the light! You can't blame Cheney who shot an innocent person by accident (allegedly)! You can't blame Mrs Cordova (New Pres at Purdue)yet: she has to work on getting yavez, vasquez, pothena, in lacresha admitted first...

[Jsay]

"For the most part, dentists are pretty good practitioners," she said. "It's an honored and trusted profession."

If only that were true. A dentist recently filled all a Ball State student's teeth on one side of her mouth and claimed the other side also was all decayed and needed fillings.
When the student went home to see her regular dentist, there was no decay on the other side and he's certain that there was likely no widespread decay on the other side.
The public is not saved from unscrupulous medical practitioners when schools and licensing boards allow cheaters to move on to cheat their patients.

[Chris]

What a waste of edcation. Glad my dentist already graduated (with honors. Not a good way to start building a career. I wonder if these people know they need to take an oath-guess not, nor do they care. What a shame

[andy b]

Kelvin Sampson's cheatin ways have spread to the IU Dental School....i love it.....

[Chris]

Uh Clem wrote:

Gee, I should have KNOWN it wasn't a bunch of unethical young adults looking for the easy path instead of working for their degrees.
But of course, we NEVER had problems like this before President Bush. How did I fail to make the connection?
Someone should check Dr. Koerber's credentials.

So, "Clem", what does President Bush have to do with these students cheating? Did he force them to do it?@ssh*le!!!

[Southsider]

Teaching ethics at the college level is a little late in the day to expect a change in behavior. Children study adults from the day they are born to learn what is acceptable behavior.

[Democracy for Kings]

Clearly a biased view by:
The ethical question is not a matter of individual responsibilty but rather it is a societal problem.....how bizarre!
I see this as being a widespread problem, not just in dentistry," said Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has written about the ethics of dental education.
"When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what's happening with weapons of mass destruction, or CEOs who lie about where the money is going, I think the general public gets the idea that anything that makes money is what's right."

[NWI Resident]

I found the article interesting. Your story, however, lost all credibility when you used a quote that said "When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what's happening with weapons of mass destruction,". No such lie has occured and you should be dismissed, suspended, or reprimanded for printing such a false statement. It is interesting that your story itself uses a false statement in an effort to explain bad behavior of others. Isn't there an old proverb about people in glass houses not throwing stones?

[ohc]

Shari Rudavsky needs a lesson in balanced journalism. Being one of the few that knows the other side of the situation, I have to say that this story is horribly skewed. Did anyone happen to notice that there were no quotes from any of the accused students? There is key information missing here, and If this is the kind of biased sensationalism that continues to go unchecked at the Indy Star, I'll find my news sources elsewhere.