I would, but I don't know their names. I tried to read the name off of one of the reports, but I couldn't get close enough (see, I'm kind of evil). I've been thinking of talking to the professor about it anyway, though. He's talked about this in class. If you're caught, you fail the class.

Right now, that would bring me a certain amount of glee.

yay for Sail !

and i would look at the possibility of turning in cheaters.

Well, you know what they look like, right? Granted, it's a really big class.

Yeah, I do. They always sit a couple rows in front of me. I did just e-mail the prof. I'll see if I get any kind of response from him.

ION, I have the best job. They just told me I should be working on homework on the clock, since I've probably got much to get caught up on.

I really need to haul myself across town and get Harvey some more $1.50 a can Harvey-food. Maybe I'll get him a sweater too. Or should I find a pattern and crochet one for him? The whyfor of this is his essential Siameseness. You see the Siamese coat is temperature-sensitive, and darkens as it is exposed to cold. This is why their extremities are dark and their middles are lighter, and why they get darker as they age. Siamese cats exposed to winter in places like Russia won't have the familiar point pattern, but will have solid color coats. Hence the wanting of a cat sweater for Harvey.

Oh, shoot. I just remembered I have a meeting right now. Wonder if she'll remember to show up this time.

I guess this is the unpopular opinion, but I would never turn somebody in for cheating in school. Not as a fellow student anyway.

Get 'em, vw!

And have good meeting, Emily.

Why not Hec?

As an online student, we are completely on the honor system. If I'm aware of another student cheating, I have no problem letting the instructor know.

I would never turn somebody in for cheating in school.

What if you were graded on a curve? I know it's tough -- I have actually watched students cheat on assignments I did poorly on and not done anything. But I'm starting to think more as a teacher these days, and cheating like that... it keeps the professor from really doing his job, for one thing, if he gets the wrong picture about how students are really doing in his class; it cheats the students who are really trying to do the work, for another; and it keeps the students who are copying from really learning the material. Mind you, so does the penalty, quite often, but there are good reasons for penalizing it. It's not really a victimless crime.

(ETA: which I think is what many of the students doing it, and the students not turning them in, believe, that it doesn't hurt anyone so whose business is it?)