Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
How so?
I have no direct experience with it, but people in my lab have graded papers, and I have a good rapport with most of my profs, so I have talked to them.
The penalty for plagiarism does not, in my limited experience at a single university, outweigh the benefit of cheating.
If it were my institution we'd bring back the pillories and chase plagiarists with torches