“Students Accused of Cheating Return Awkwardly to a Changed Harvard” by Richard Perez-Pena
I was very shocked to read that Harvard students were cheating, especially on a take home exam. I would expect most Harvard students to be overall geniuses since they were able to get into the Ivy League school. However, that ideal was rapidly crushed as I read this article. What has gone wrong with teaching methods that even Harvard students are cheating? I felt that the professor should have been more careful in deciding to make a test “take home”. It should have been expected that something like cheating by sharing answers with each other would happen. I also felt that the teacher assistants were at fault because they weren’t allowed to discuss the test with students, but they did it anyway. Overall, professors should be cautious and consider all of the risks of giving a take home test. Also, I think they should fix their teaching methods a little so that more students will understand what is being taught, and less students will be tempted to cheat. I also feel that the students who were caught cheating should not be allowed back to the school, they cheated once, and they can cheat again.
“Women, Bought and Sold in Nepal” by Katie Orlinsky
I’m not too surprised after reading this article, seeing how sex trafficking still exists today in countries all over the world. Although this is nothing new to me, it is still disappointing to see that the police don’t do much to try and stop this from happening. This is an example of where “evil prevails” because the sex traffickers have enough money to bribe border police officers into keeping their mouths shut about this illegitimate business. I am glad to read that Charimaya was able to escape the life of forced prostitution, file a suit against her sex trafficker and get her assailants arrested(the ones that abducted her). I have read stories of women being tricked into forced prostitution, or they are just abducted from the streets and are forced to make money for sex traffickers. Some women, who were lucky enough, were able to escape their horrible fate and start a “new life”. The fact that Charimaya is taking an active role to try and prevent this from happening to other women in Nepal in the future gives me a little hope that eventually sex trafficking will be gone altogether.
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