Issue date: 9/6/07 Section: News

"For whatever reason, it wasn't clear to the students what was collaboration and what was going too far," he said.

Some students shared their code with other groups and then redid their own code in a different way, said another Wharton sophomore, who preferred to remain anonymous because he is friends with some students under investigation.

Because the class is so difficult and so much of the coding material has to be learned outside of class, it is natural for students to turn to outside resources like professors, TAs or students who are better at OPIM for help, Wharton sophomore Alex Anderson said.

"A good comparison would be if you were using a Wikipedia article to get information on a topic and then writing a paper based off of that information" he said.

In the meantime, OPIM 101 professors are not saying anything about the cases and have directed all related questions to OPIM 101 professor Thomas Lee.

"Primarily, we want to protect any student who might have been referred," said Lee, who would not confirm any investigation. "We don't want to give anyone who is not involved the false impression that these students have been accused of anything."

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