January 3, 2003

Rice Students, Most of Them Athletes, Are Punished for Cheating

By JENNIFER K. RUARK

More than a dozen students at Rice University have been found guilty of cheating on the final examination in a lower-level physics course. A majority of the students involved were varsity athletes, an anonymous member of the student Honor Council told the university's student newspaper, The Rice Thresher.

Arthur Few, a physics professor who last spring taught Physics 203, "Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate," told the Thresher that he had charged 22 students with cheating on the

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