Byung Kyu Park's Personal Website

>In addition to the 'Major Madness on Sproul,' there will be workshops
>and a faculty dinner scheduled to take place in the residence halls.
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>The faculty dinner on Wednesday, March 12 at 6pm in the Clark Kerr
>Garden Room IS LIMITED to 10 students per professor so be sure to
>sign up fast! This is a business attire event and reservations are
>required. Please email aavp...@gmail.com with the
>following information: name, SID number, email, phone number,
>residential unit (if applicable), and professor preference.
>Professors include:
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>George Breslauer (Political Science Department/Executive Vice
>Chancellor and Provost)
>Alex Filippenko (Astronomy Department)
>Dan Blanton (English Department)
>George Chang (Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, Biochemistry)
>Alan Ross (Political Science, Haas)
>Eric Schickler (Political Science)
>Duncan Williams (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
>Tom Gold (Sociology)
>Ingrid Seyer-Ochi (Education)
>Fouzieyha Towghi (Gender and Women’s Studies)

Egh. ‘Looks like representative sample of under-populated (read: unpopular) departments. Granted, I heard that Prof. Filippenko is a great lecturer (esp. for Astro 10), but that isn’t exactly the reason to choose a major. Good thing I’m past that stage.

What does ‘online study group’ exactly mean?

Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.

First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.

Well, I’ll say this much: in my years of grading upper division physics homework, the homework that looked most like each other (showing various evidences of cheating, to reveal just a few symptoms (since I need to keep a few aces in the sleeve when I grade again), intermediate steps look identical, and unusual choices of variable name is repeated) were of those who were “in a study group”.

I’m not saying everyone in a study group is a cheater, but I am saying that those in a study group has to take extraordinary precaution that they don’t cheat by accident (such as only discussing ideas together and keeping specific implementations secret from each other). Somehow, Facebook doesn’t seem to be a best place to do that.