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I was disturbed by Golub’s article because the emphasis was on cheating by students and possible counteractive measures. Never did he ask the more fundamental questions: What is the purpose of an examination; Why do students cheat? Instead, he proposed that faculty become police enforcers, trying to weed out dishonest behavior. I would prefer to turn faculty into educators and mentors, guiding students to use all the resources at their disposal to solve important problems.

There are two things you should know about A Place to Bury Strangers: they are very loud and very good. They’re not loud like most rock bands are loud; they’re loud like a band that has its own line of custom effects pedals and once destroyed a rare record press just by running a tape of its recording through it is loud.