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e. A Stillwater, Oklahoma, police officer came home to find his daughter and her boyfriend copulating on the couch. The boy pulled up his pants and rushed past the officer. As he went by, the officer slapped him in the face with an open hand. Subsequently, the boy’s mother called city officials and complained about the “assault.” As a result, the officer was demoted and given a $700 pay cut. The city council later reversed the ruling but voted to fine the officer a week’s pay. Do you agree with the city’s handling of this case?

 f. Some educators are urging that colleges become more selective than they have been in the past few decades. Specifically, these people propose that remedial courses be eliminated and entrance requirements tightened. This would mean that students who are deficient in basic skills, earned poor marks in high school, or did poorly on admissions tests would not be accepted into college. Do you agree with this view?

 g. An outstanding senior English major (with a 3.7 grade point average out of a possible 4.0) at Princeton University submitted an analysis of a novel for her Spanish American literature course. Her professor determined that the paper was plagiarized—that is, that it was copied, virtually word for word, from a scholarly reference work without proper acknowledgments. The student subsequently claimed she had committed only a “technical error.” The case was referred to a faculty-student committee on discipline, which, after a hearing, recommended withholding the student’s degree for one year and notifying the law schools to which she had applied of the details of the decision. Believing the penalty to be too harsh, the student took the matter to court. Do you believe the committee’s decision was too harsh?

e、俄克拉荷马州斯蒂尔沃特市的一名警官回到家中，发现他的女儿和她的男朋友正在沙发上性交，男孩拉起裤子，从警官身边冲过去。当他经过时，警官张开手扇了他一巴掌。随后，男孩的母亲打电话给市政府官员，投诉说发生了“袭击事件”。结果，该名警务人员被降职，减薪700美元。市议会后来推翻了这一裁决，但投票决定罚款该官员一周的工资。你同意本市对这个案子的处理吗？

f、一些教育工作者认为大学应变得比过去几十年更有选择性。具体来说，这些人建议取消补习课程，提高入学要求。这将意味着那些缺乏基本技能、高中成绩不佳或入学考试成绩不佳的学生不会被大学录取。你同意这个观点吗？

g、普林斯顿大学一位杰出的高级英语专业学生（在4.0满分中，平均学分绩点为3.7分）为她的西班牙语美国文学课程提交了一本小说的分析报告。她的教授断定这篇论文是抄袭的-也就是说，它实际上是从学术参考著作中逐字抄袭而来，没有得到适当的承认。这名学生后来声称她只犯了“技术错误”。这个案件被提交给一个师生纪律委员会，该委员会在一次听证会后建议将该学生的学位扣留一年，并将决定的细节通知她所申请的法学院。学生认为处罚太严厉，就把这件事告上了法庭。你认为委员会的决定太严厉了吗？