A half-dozen students at Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management are accused of blatantly cheating on final exams in accounting and statistics classes earlier this fall, by sharing information and copying from each other while their professor was out of the room.
As Baron notes, the “honor code” not only protects students—it also protects Kellogg’s reputation by allowing the school to keep complaints under a lid, while making it impossible to know how they’re being handled.
