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Cheating scandal during COVID lockdown ensnares 249 Air Force Academy cadets January 29 Academy basic cadets participate in the first phase of basic cadet training with marching drills on July 8 on the Terrazzo at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. The academy has investigated 249 cadets for alleged cheating last spring, after three-quarters of the academys students were sent home in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. (Trevor Cokley/Air Force) In a Friday release, the acade...

Utah officials end effort to eliminate BYU’s police department The decision concludes a two-year effort tied to a lieutenant’s use of police data to help the Honor Code Office. Brigham Young University Posted at 5:35 AM, Jan 27, 2021 and last updated 2021-01-27 07:39:33-05 PROVO, Utah — Brigham Young University’s police force is here to stay, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. State officials announced Tuesday that they won’t appeal an administrative law judge’s decis...

Utah officials end effort to eliminate BYU’s police department Jessica Miller © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The police station at Brigham Young University on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Brigham Young University’s police force is here to stay. State officials announced Tuesday that they won’t appeal an administrative law judge’s decision to dismiss the state’s effort to strip the private university of its police powers. That decision ended a two-year b...

| Updated: Jan. 25, 2021, 3:16 p.m. Editor’s note: This story is available to Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism. Every year, colleges are required to report the crimes that occur on or near their campuses. Here are some of the takeaways for Utah’s eight public and two private colleges and universities, and where you can find your school’s newly released report for 2019. 1. New data shows a spike in cases of stalking among students acro...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ Caroline Culler In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year— Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answ...

In a semester of online learning, students have allegedly found dishonest ways to improve their grades. According to an article by the Texas Tribune, Texas A&M has begun investigating wide-spread cheating by students after faculty reported unusually fast completion times for an exam taken by students in an online finance class, FINC 409, in early December. In an email from Aggie Honor System Office Director Timothy Powers, guilty students were asked to self-report their Honor Code violations by...

Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City Recap: Raising Hell To A Hip-Hop Beat This! This is the episode I’ve been waiting to see on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. After weeks of personal storylines and lots of behind-the-back gossiping, the drama finally erupted in the 801. And it was all thanks to Whitney Rose. The youngest Housewife of the bunch certainly earned her snowflake this week, putting everything on the table and getting multiple storylines moving. She truly did the Lord’s wo...

In May 2020, some 73 cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point cheated on a calculus final exam. Fifty-five of those cadets were athletes and 24 of them football players. This isn’t the first time West Point has dealt with large-scale cheating on exams and not even the first time it was mostly athletes. In 1951, 90 cadets, mostly football players, were expelled for cheating. In 1976, 153 cadets resigned or were expelled for cheating on an electrical engineering exam. Thi...

BYU will keep police department after judge ruling SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University in Utah says it will keep its police department after an administrative law judge threw out a case in which state officials sought to take away the campus’ rights to police itself. The decision Tuesday came two years after the state Department of Public Safety said it would decertify the BYU police department after the department did not conduct an adequate internal investigation into a lieuten...

If West Point Tolerates Cheating, It Violates Its Own Honor Code January 7, 2021 On March 7, 1945, Lt. Karl Timmermann joined a small group of scouts on a rise overlooking the Rhine River and saw that the bridge at Remagen was yet standing. Heroically, he immediately radioed back to his higher headquarters what he had seen. He had to know what the subsequent orders would be—lead his men into the jaws of death, seize the bridge, and open a path into the heart of Germany. Later that day, he wou...