New technologies and outsourcing

Of course with globalization comes outsourcing. Why pay a US doctor full when you can pay an Indian doctor half? That's a common thing in the world we live in today.

As for academic dishonesty and buying papers off the Internet, I have heard of it. The only close case I know of personally comes from a friend of mine who goes to school out of state. His friend said he'd pay him fifty bucks if he wrote him a paper on mudslides. Said friend of mine then got drunk and wrote that mudslides are worse than tsunamis and earthquakes combined. His friend got a C on the paper and was thrilled. Clearly a terrible example, but I digress.

I guess the whole "buying papers off the Internet" thing is totally bizarre to me. I worked extremely hard to get into college, probably harder than most students going to Whitewater. I would not once even take the slightest chance of having everything taken away from me because I decided to procrastinate and get hammered instead of working on a project or paper. Hello - we're paying around $50 per class period to be a full-time Whitewater student...what a waste if you're just using your parents money or loan money to party all the time!

I have a professor who has us electronically turn in our papers without our names on them so that he can submit them to databases to see if we stole our information. I say more power to him. I work hard so that I can get the grades I have, and if someone else in the class is getting a 100% on a paper they didn't write and we're then curved off of that, then I have a huge problem with it.