"Nearly half the students in a class of more than 250 are suspected of jointly coming up with answers or copying off one another, said Jay Harris, Harvard’s dea

"Nearly half the students in a class of more than 250 are suspected of jointly coming up with answers or copying off one another, said Jay Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education. Independent groups of students appear to have worked together by e-mail or other means on responses to short questions and an essay assignment" Involving others in cheating with you greatly increases the "leak vectors" for the "crime" to be discovered. Loose lips sink ships. It's unclear from the story the size of the actual groups that were cheating but it seems to be that the groups were not 125/2 groups of 2 but much larger groups of students helping each other. I guess that is one life lesson that all the education in the world doesn't provide that people with street smarts might have had. No doubt that the administration was tipped off by somebody (or would have been if that's not the way this went down.)