Nathan's view

Rebecca Nathan’s piece on cheating was a very interesting read for me.  Because it was written from her first hand experience as a student at the school, I found it to be quite accurate.  The findings that she compiles from asking students around campus revealed the same thoughts that I generally have with cheating.  A lot of the time, as Nathan state, students don’t think of what they’re doing as cheating (like working on homework together or checking answers with someone else).  In addition, I agree with her proposition for each of us to define cheating with our own definition.  Not everyone agrees that certain things are morally wrong and could be considered “cheating.”  I also agree with Nathan in the sense that I believe that the students have a very different view of what is cheating that perhaps the administration.  The administration would be a lot stricter in their definition of cheating than most students would define it.   Some things that administration would consider cheating has become a daily occurrence for most students.  Even one of the student in Nathan’s study stated, “everyone does it.” Finally, I agree with Nathan that cheating is entangled with many other aspects; it’s not always a black and white situation.  Morality, purpose, time, and the university are just some of the factors involved in determining what is and isn’t cheating in today’s schools.