To the editor:

After reading about the “XF” grade Wichita State may use, and the suggestion that cheating students then take an ethics seminar in order to remove the X, I was reminded of an incident involving my son while he was completing his graduate work at a major university some years ago.

After teaching the freshman ethics course, he was instructed to set up a “nonproctored” final exam (drop the exams off and then leave the room). Later, he came across one student’s paper which had an additional comment at the end of the exam. The comment was, “I don’t know if you realize it, but everyone in here is cheating.”

I suspect that if children aren’t learning ethics at home, at church and in elementary school, there isn’t much chance they will pick it up in a college level “semester-long integrity course.”

Marcia Treat,

Baldwin