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Article in Washington Post by one of the nation's most respected
education reporters, Jay Mathews, about Georgia Tech student falsely
accused of cheating. Some of the nation's leading educators go on the
record to lambaste Georgia Tech, saying the students did nothing
wrong. This article generated so much negative publicity for Georgia
Tech, the school conducted a rebel retreat and abruptly abandoned its
policy to adopt one more like MIT's.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A58274-2002Apr16

Slashdot: "Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning" – 979 archived
comments – the majority ridiculing Georgia Tech, its faculty and
administrators

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/1827234

Technique: Georgia Tech student newspaper: Students Helping Students
Does Not Constitute Cheating – student describes "Orwellian" nightmare
of going to the school.

http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/issues/spring2002/2002-01-25/10.html

Article by Jay Mathews in Washington Post on Georgia Tech's retreat on
"no collaboration" policy, admitting it was wrong, tacitly exonerating
all who were falsely accused.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A56366-2002Jun4&notFound=true

Georgia Tech internal report on cheating scandal showing almost 1,000
students, many minorities and international accused in a two year
period. More than 30% say they were mistreated, denied a fair hearing
and due process.

http://facultysenate.gatech.edu/EB2003-072203-Attach2A.ppt

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education defended students
falsely accused by Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech was added to FIRE's
watch list after it trampled the student's Constitutional rights to
due process.

http://www.thefire.org/cases.php
http://www.thefire.org/issues/process.php3

Georgia Tech 1998 internal report: "Causes of Cheating – Unclear
Expectation in the Classroom" commissioned a few weeks after Dean
Karen Boyd was hired as Georgia Tech's judge, jury and executioner.
She has a 75% conviction rate. The Taliban would be proud.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ans/asee00.pdf