Ethics Headlines
#79

Volume 2, Number 25                                                 Friday, June 30, 2006


Ethics Headlines is an ethics-in-the-news clipping file published each Friday by Greg Feldmeth, a high school teacher at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. It contains news items from the media in the past week that deal with some area of ethical inquiry.

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This week's headlines--select the headline to read the article
  • Study examines why students cheat. "The ... finding, in a nutshell, said that individuals who are cheating are saying on the surface that they know cheating is wrong and is bad, and even though they engaged in cheating, they are finding a way to rationalize away from that — 'What I did wasn't cheating. I was learning, or I was helping someone, or I was simply taking advantage of technological opportunities.'
  • Court allows UC bias suit to proceed. A U.S. judge tentatively permits a Christian school to pursue its claim that the university discriminates in its admissions policies.
  • A psychiatrist looks within. I like to write about patients, and have been waiting many years to hear from those who believe this is wrong. I expected complaints about self-serving motives and about violation of patient confidentiality. I also expected complaints about rotten writing. Recently, all three charges were made.
  • Just desserts for Churchill. After hiring, promoting and for many years lionizing an academic fraud, the University of Colorado decided Monday to fire him, having been left with no choice after 18 months of blistering controversy and ghastly revelations regarding his scholarly misconduct.


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