A summary of the article There is no Harvard cheating scandal: The students should be celebrated for collaborating In the article There is no Harvard cheating scandal: The students should be celebrated for collaborating, published in The slate group on the 1st of February 2013, Farhad Manjoo argues that the students involved in the Harvard cheating scandal should be rewarded instead of accused of their way of collaborating together with the hard take-home exam for the class “Introduction to Congress” which was held. One of the major points that Manjoo emphasizes in the article is that the collaboration between the students should not be seen as cheating, nor be questioned since the knowledge among the students were provided unevenly by different instructors. A couple of students who talked to The New York Times explained that it was common for students to share notes between the different discussion sessions since some instructors provided better material than others. They also explained that they, therefore, didn't question whether it was allowed to cooperate before the exam or not. …show more content…
He also explains that it was not the lack of knowledge that made students collaborate, it was, in fact, the actual design of the exam which created confusion. According to what Manjoo writes int he article, “the test seemed to be designed to measure how students could think about some of the contradiction inherited in American government”. However, if you want to determine what a student think, why make them think alone, he