Poll Reveals Cribbing During Exams By Nearly Half of Cornell Students

Forty-seven percent of the students at Cornell are moral lepers, a Cornell Student Council survey on cheating revealed this week.

Three hundred and twenty-two students answered the Council questionnaire and confessed that just as many undergraduates, but no more, were cribbing last year as in the spring of 1950 when the Sociology Department ran a similar poll.

Ten percent admitted they were dishonest frequently while 37 percent said it happened only "once or twice." Two-thirds to three-quarters reported they thought cheating was a bad thing. Twenty-eight percent thought academic integrity was "highly important."

Moral lassitude was 22 percent higher in the Agriculture and Industrial Relations schools than under the faculties of Arts and Sciences and Engineering.