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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/education/students-accused-of-cheating-return-awkwardly-to-a-changed-harvard.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/women-bought-and-sold-in-nepal.html?_r=0 This article is a perfect example of how even the most prestigious and highest ranking schools are not perfect. There is plagiarism in almost every school and it has different consequences in different colleges and universities. Although Harvard decided to accept back some of the students but something similar is not guaranteed in every university or college. I believe that when a set of rules and a code of ethics is established for all the students to follow that set of rules and that code should be enforced at all times. An exception should not be tolerated because that will leave room for other exceptions as well. If te students in Harvard found the need to cheat in a take home test so they would get ahead, who knows what kind of other measures they would take during their college experience to get ahead. Of course some used the excuse that the class they were taking became progressively more difficult to the point that it was not in the standards at which it was introduced to be at first and that is why the students found the need to take such measures on a take home test. Well there are others in the world that try to use different measures of gettng ahead which means taking steps that are against the rules. If we were to enlarge this ideal of getting ahead no matter the rules and ethics into a world scale problem we can redirect to the.selling of women in Nepal. The traders of these women are trying to make a profit and get ahead by breaking the rules, much bigger rules. Although prostitution(voluntary or not) is known to be the oldest proffession in the world we still try to combat a major source of it, human trafficking, by raising awareness and enforcing the rules as much as possible. We try to not allow any exceptions for such a thing because a weak link will allow for the rest of the trafficking to continue. In strong and wealthy nations it might be more difficult to bribe patrols and officers whereas in India it is a lot easier so human trafficking becomes easier. No matter what rules are being bent or broken, there should be consequences for each one of those without any exceptions that will create a weak link for the rest of the rule breaking and bending.