Years later when I contacted Dr. Myers to discuss the cheating accusation, he was reluctant to talk about it, regarding it as a deeply personal episode that he’d put behind him. Yet he conceded that he had considered me guilty of the charge. Regardless of whether I used it or not, I had received advance information about the exam. The question for him, he said, had been what to do about it. He felt there was no appropriate sanction, at least not among the harsh sentences that were being proposed. I had made a grave mistake that day by not leaving the room, but he was not going to let that
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