Lit Hum exam leak (2007) - Revision history

Admin at 22:52, 8 December 2013

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Absentminded at 18:36, 11 November 2013

2013-11-11T18:36:26Z

Admin at 19:56, 12 May 2013

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PSterne at 02:47, 11 May 2013

2013-05-11T02:47:32Z

PSterne at 02:47, 11 May 2013

2013-05-11T02:47:20Z

PSterne: moved Lit Hum exam leak to Lit Hum exam leak (2007): There are now 2 Lit Hum exam leaks (2007 and 2013), so we need to specify this one refers to the one in 2007

2013-05-11T02:41:03Z

moved Lit Hum exam leak to Lit Hum exam leak (2007): There are now 2 Lit Hum exam leaks (2007 and 2013), so we need to specify this one refers to the one in 2007

PSterne: /* External links */

2013-05-11T02:39:33Z

‎External links

66.108.54.147 at 22:22, 4 January 2010

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Reaganaut at 04:59, 21 April 2008

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Nonsensical at 17:04, 9 July 2007

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 == References ==
 <references />
 == External links ==
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 * [http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3161557&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 Fox News coverage]
-[[Category:Scandals]]
+[[Category:Academic scandals]]
 [[Category:Core Curriculum]]

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 [[Image:Wen_Jin.jpg|thumb|160px|Wen Jin, section leader who leaked exam information]]
-The '''2007 Lit Hum exam leak''' (not to be confused with the [[Lit Hum exam leak (2013)|2013 Lit Hum exam leak]]) took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
+The '''2007 Lit Hum exam leak''' (not to be confused with [[Lit Hum exam leak|other Lit Hum exam leaks]]) took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
 == Aftermath ==

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 [[Image:Wen_Jin.jpg|thumb|160px|Wen Jin, section leader who leaked exam information]]
-The '''2007 Lit Hum exam leak''' (not to be confused with the [[Lit Hum exam leak {2013}|2013 Lit Hum exam leak]]) took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
+The '''2007 Lit Hum exam leak''' (not to be confused with the [[Lit Hum exam leak (2013)|2013 Lit Hum exam leak]]) took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
 == Aftermath ==

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 [[Image:Wen_Jin.jpg|thumb|160px|Wen Jin, section leader who leaked exam information]]
-The '''Lit Hum exam leak''' took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
+The '''2007 Lit Hum exam leak''' (not to be confused with the [[Lit Hum exam leak {2013}|2013 Lit Hum exam leak]]) took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide. Jin is now an Assistant Professor in the English Department. <ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#wj "Faculty Profiles"], Department of English and Comparative Literature </ref>
 == Aftermath ==

← Older revision	Revision as of 02:41, 11 May 2013
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 == External links ==
-* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3630 Confessions, pt. 3: Lit Hum Exam Leaked] on [[The Bwog]]
+* [http://bwog.com/tag/lithum-cheating-scandal-2007/ Complete coverage of the scandal] on [[Bwog]]
-* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3634 Dean Martinsen's emails on the Core Office investigation] from [[The Bwog]]
+* [http://bwog.com/2007/05/06/confessions-pt-3-lit-hum-exam-leaked/ Confessions, pt. 3: Lit Hum Exam Leaked] on [[Bwog]]
 * [http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Lit-Hum.Exam.Contents.Leaked-2896754.shtml Lit Hum Exam Contents leaked] from ''[[Spec]]''
 * [http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/College.To.Offer.Second.Lit.Hum.Exam-2897492.shtml College to Offer Second Lit Hum Exam] from ''[[Spec]]''
-* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3640 Commentary on the second exam offering] from [[The Bwog]]
+* [http://bwog.com/2007/05/08/who-says-there-are-no-second-chances/ Commentary on the second exam offering] from [[Bwog]]
-* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3647 Roundup of New York media coverage of the scandal] on [[The Bwog]]
+* [http://bwog.com/2007/05/09/post-readers-must-really-hate-us/ Roundup of New York media coverage of the scandal] on [[Bwog]]
 * [http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3161557&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 Fox News coverage]
 [[Category:Scandals]]

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 == The study guide ==
-{{quotation
+<blockquote>
 '''Part I- Possible Identifications'''
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 :-material objects
 :-Books in Cervantes
-|2=[http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3634#comment28196 Anonymous posting on Bwog, 5/8/07]}}
+</blockquote>
 == The passage identifications ==
 The ''Crime and Punishment'' passage identification exposed many students who had used the study guide, as the guide had predicted the excerpt from ''Crime and Punishment'' would be from the epilogue.
-{{quotation
-|1=We keep imaging eternity as an idea that cannot be grasped, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all of that, imagine suddenly that there will be one little room there, something like a village bathhouse, covered with soot, with spiders in all the corners, and that's the whole of eternity. I sometimes fancy something of the sort.
+<blockquote>
-|2=''Crime and Punishment'', Part Four, Chapter 1 ('''not''' the Conclusion)}}
+We keep imaging eternity as an idea that cannot be grasped, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all of that, imagine suddenly that there will be one little room there, something like a village bathhouse, covered with soot, with spiders in all the corners, and that's the whole of eternity. I sometimes fancy something of the sort.
 == References ==
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 == External links ==
 * [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3630 Confessions, pt. 3: Lit Hum Exam Leaked] on [[The Bwog]]
 * [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3634 Dean Martinsen's emails on the Core Office investigation] from [[The Bwog]]

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 [[Image:Wen_Jin.jpg|thumb|160px|Wen Jin, section leader who leaked exam information]]
-The '''Lit Hum exam leak''' took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the Class of 2010, and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class.
+The '''Lit Hum exam leak''' took place in Spring [[2007]]. Prior to the exam, [[Wen Jin]], a [[Lit Hum]] section leader leaked information that helped some students study for the [[passage identification]]s.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/05/02/News/Students.Must.Drop.Or.Retake.Lit.Hum.Exam-2898104.shtml "Students Must Drop or Retake Exam"], Columbia Spectator, 5/9/07 (spec lists article post date incorrectly as 5/2/07)</ref> These notes identified which quotations would appear on the final exam, and sketched out the essay questions. Students who received this study guide passed it on to other students in the [[Class of 2010]], and it eventually spread to a significant proportion of the class. By [[May 4|May 4th]], when the exam was given, hundreds of Lit Hum students had seen the study guide.
 == Aftermath ==
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 === Email to students ===
-In an email to students on Monday, May 7th, 2007, the [[Core Office]] sent an email to students confirming "that there was a significant misjudgment on the part of one Lit Hum instructor, which has resulted in a complicated situation". The office announced that they were "looking into [the] matter". The email was sent from [[Patricia Grieve]], Chair of [[Literature Humanities]], and [[Deborah Martinsen]], Associate Dean of the [[Core Curriculum]].
+In an email to students on Monday, [[May 7|May 7th]], 2007, the [[Core Office]] sent an email to students confirming "that there was a significant misjudgment on the part of one Lit Hum instructor, which has resulted in a complicated situation". The office announced that they were "looking into [the] matter". The email was sent from [[Patricia Grieve]], Chair of [[Literature Humanities]], and [[Deborah Martinsen]], Associate Dean of the [[Core Curriculum]].
 === Email to instructors ===
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 === Decision to offer second exam ===
-On Tuesday, May 8th, 2007, a faculty ad hoc committee including Dean [[Austin Quigley]] and Core Curriculum administrators concluded that exam security had been severely compromised, and that freshmen would be offered the choice of taking a second Lit Hum exam or having their grade on the previous Lit Hum final not count for their final semester grade.
+On Tuesday, [[May 8|May 8th]], 2007, a faculty ad hoc committee including Dean [[Austin Quigley]] and Core Curriculum administrators concluded that exam security had been severely compromised, and that freshmen would be offered the choice of taking a second Lit Hum exam or having their grade on the previous Lit Hum final not count for their final semester grade.
 == The study guide ==
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 == The passage identifications ==
+The ''Crime and Punishment'' passage identification exposed many students who had used the study guide, as the guide had predicted the excerpt from ''Crime and Punishment'' would be from the epilogue.
-<blockquote>We keep imaging eternity as an idea that cannot be grasped, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all of that, imagine suddenly that there will be one little room there, something like a village bathhouse, covered with soot, with spiders in all the corners, and that's the whole of eternity. I sometimes fancy something of the sort.</blockquote> -Crime and Punishment, Part Four, Chapter 1 ('''not''' the Conclusion)
+{{quotation
 == References ==