U. of Mississippi Rescinds 3 Degrees

The University of Mississippi's governing board has voted to revoke the degrees of three students whose transcripts contained credits for distance-education classes they did not take.

The cheating was discovered in August 1999, when a check of records revealed some irregularities in the files of eight students. The university conducted an internal investigation and confronted the students about the discrepancies.

During interviews with the students, the university found that an

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