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Columbia Students Love Study Guide (Cheating?) Site

2009_03_cramster.jpg Cramster.com tells the NY Post that Columbia University is the top school where its users hail from (if they're going by columbia.edu addresses). CEO Aaron Hawker bragged, "Not only do we have the most users [at Columbia], but they are the most active." The subscription site is a "virtual study hall" but the Post points out that there are also "hundreds of textbooks with answers included" (apparently posted in spite of Cramster's anti-cheating policy). Columbia topped Ohio State, LSU, the University of Southern California and UCLA; one student sang Cramster's praises, "It's not cheating, it's awesome. Those who rely on it [for answers] get screwed. It's to help students who want to learn, and it helped me." As for other NY-area schools, Cramster says SUNY-Stony Brook is #2, NYU is #3, Yeshiva University is #4 and St. John's is #5. Related: Cramster says that Columbia is a supercomputer.

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  • sensibile

    Don't college textbooks come with the answer in the back anymore? If you are a professor or ta and are depending only on a "right answer" to show understanding, you should be fired.

  • Guest

    "hundreds of textbooks with answers included"



    Because Googling the answer is just too damn difficult to do... (eyeroll)

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