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Harvard Cheating Scandal

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Pedestrians walk through a gate on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered evidence they may have wrongly shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard officials on Thursday didn't release the class subject, the students' names, or specifically how many are being investigated. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Pedestrians walk through a gate on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered evidence they may have wrongly shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard officials on Thursday didn't release the class subject, the students' names, or specifically how many are being investigated. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Harvard has ordered half the students involved in last year's major cheating scandal to withdraw from the university. 125 students total were implicated in the Spring 2012 investigation, which was launched after the professor of a course called "Introduction to Congress" reported suspicious similarities on a number of take-home exams.

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Bobby Samuels, the President of the Harvard Crimson.

This segment aired on February 1, 2013.

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