A student who sent a photograph of his answer sheet for an English final exam to a messaging app Line chat room in a bid to help classmates got a quick lesson on the perils of posting and the power of social media.
The student had either forgotten, or ignored the fact that the Line chat room for a university sports team members included the team’s coach, a professor at the university.
The professor, surnamed Lee (李), who declined to reveal his full name, university affiliation or the identity of the student, said he gave the student a dressing down and, as a punishment, posted their text messages on Facebook.
Screen grab from Facebook
Lee said he was enraged by the student’s dishonesty and stupidity when he saw the photograph on the team’s Line chat room, and sent the student a sarcastic message: “Is this kindergarten English?”
A second message said: “Are you an idiot, cheating by sending the message to this chat room?”
The student replied: “I am sorry, teacher. I sent the message to the wrong room.”
When he told the student that he would post the messages on Facebook under the heading “the most stupid incident today,” the student asked him not to, Lee said.
“I thought it was cool to look after my classmates, but Mr Lee scolded me severely and asked me not to make the same mistake again. I admit the mistake and promise not to repeat the same mistake ever again,” Lee quoted the student as saying.
Lee’s shaming of the student on Facebook, whom he described as “outrageously stupid,” quickly went viral.
Lee said that he was not going to fully identify himself, the student or the school to give the student a second chance and avoid a potential demerit.
However, Lee is known to be a former student of Shieh Jyh-cherng (謝志誠), a former National Taiwan University professor.
Shieh said that college students must have self-esteem and exercise self-discipline because professors are not going to conduct body searches on students taking exams to ensure no cellphones are taken into exam rooms.
His policy was to speak to students caught cheating in exams, and if they acknowledged their mistake, he gave them a zero on the exams as punishment, Shieh said.
If they refused to admit they were cheating, he said he reported them to the university, which could hurt their academic careers.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
EVERYONE’S ISSUE: Kim said that during a visit to Taiwan, she asked what would happen if China attacked, and was told that the global economy would shut down Taiwan is critical to the global economy, and its defense is a “here and now” issue, US Representative Young Kim said during a roundtable talk on Taiwan-US relations on Friday. Kim, who serves on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, held a roundtable talk titled “Global Ties, Local Impact: Why Taiwan Matters for California,” at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, California. “Despite its small size and long distance from us, Taiwan’s cultural and economic importance is felt across our communities,” Kim said during her opening remarks. Stanford University researcher and lecturer Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜), lawyer Lin Ching-chi
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government in retaliation for President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments suggesting that China should have a territorial dispute with Russia, an information security company said today. The hacker group, NoName057, recently launched an HTTPs flood attack called “DDoSia” targeting Taiwanese government and financial units, Radware told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). Local tax bureaus in New Taipei City, Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan were mentioned by the hackers. Only the Hsinchu Local Tax Bureau site appeared to be down earlier in the day, but was back
RSS