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Ever cheated on an exam? Copied a classmate’s lab results? Maybe you got help from your roommate on one of your English comp papers? Turns out you’re not alone. According to the International Center for Academic...

Drug use is a huge component of HBO’s Euphoria and its many character arcs. The main character, and part-time narrator, Rue, played by Zendaya, is a drug addict struggling with staying clean. In the first episode, she is...

In HBO’s Euphoria, the entire show discusses several intense story plots, including physical abuse. Much of the physical abuse storylines center around Nate Jacobs, Euphoria‘s main antagonist. Nate is an incredibly...

The show Euphoria premiered on HBO on June 16, 2019, and since then, the world has been captivated by the storyline, costumes, and simplistic makeup choices for the actors. It is heralded as showcasing how life is for students...

So, your school caught you doing something dumb on social media. Maybe your friend posted a video of your underage drinking, driving on the wrong side of the road, or ranting about politics. Whatever the case may be, your school...

According to the CDC, nearly 44% of high school students are using e-cigarettes, or “vapes.” But what happens when your school catches you vaping? Can you get into trouble? What if you were vaping off-campus and a teacher or...

Recent press accounts telling the story of how Clemson University cleared the record of and compensated a student wrongly accused of sexually assaulting another student also report the student’s winning a $5.3 million...

Recent press accounts tell the remarkable story of a Clemson University student’s seven-year fight to clear his name after another student’s false accusations of sexual assault resulted in his year-long university...

A recent press report highlights a new lawsuit in which the plaintiff student-athletes claim that NCAA academic policies discriminate against black student-athletes and Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The...

The first reaction a college or university student has to misconduct charges threatening to expel the student is usually fright, confusion, concern, and grief. Within a very short time, though, students facing expulsion realize...

A recent press report reveals an incident at Louisiana State University in which one of the school’s fraternities engaged in serious incidents of hazing during the traditionally bizarre fraternity initiation rites of...

College roommates bring their own personality, character, and habits. College roommates can become lifelong friends. They can also become significant distractions. And in the worst case, a college roommate’s bad habits or...

Schools have so many ways to define cheating that a wise and cautious student should watch out when considering using any ingenious method of study. That’s the best lesson to draw from the story of a student stunned by a...

A recent report in the widely read online journal Inside Higher Ed describes how campus police are trying to take a softer approach to improve their interactions with students. Campus police departments are responding to...

A recent press report describes a county sheriff’s office practice of periodically sweeping a local high school using drug-sniffing dogs. The report quotes the sheriff as saying that the high school sweeps keep the dogs...

Cramming is a venerated tradition in college and university studies. Final exams and other big, important tests undoubtedly deserve attention. And recency is a valid phenomenon. Studying just before an exam can certainly help. But...

A recent Air Force Times report describes the unfortunate case of twenty-two Air Force cadets expelled and hundreds of others placed on probation for cheating and plagiarism while studying from home during the pandemic. When...

Friends at your college or university make the experience what it is. Courses, professors, studies, and degrees are why you go to college or a university. Friends are why you stay. Without friends, college can isolate, burden, and...

Peer pressure can be an awful thing. Peer pressure can lead a student to do something the student would never have done without the pressure. Students, like other individuals, young and old, properly adapt their behavior to...

Cheating has a past, and cheating has a future. Educators might have once thought that college and university cheating would gradually wane as technology improved detection and ethics instruction improved student character. Today,...