Academic Dishonesty
“Lying is a basic human reaction, and this is the class where we study it.” Dr. Renholds pauses. “We lie to keep people safe from nasty truths; just like when your Daddy told you that Fifi went to live on a farm upstate. We call these lies White Lies, and for the most part they are harmless. We use them to maintain the status quo of our lives and emotions.”
He turns away from his podium, and reaches up to the old dusty chalkboard. The remnants of past lectures remain smeared across the grey-green slab of slate. Renholds is a man that is made to work in academia. He is on the shorter side of five foot six and with a wide frame. His face is round, and his sunken eyes hid behind his glasses, fixed into a slight squint from years of intense reading. His mouth is thin and is flanked by deep wrinkles that meet his mouth with a slight smile. His silver hair is slowly falling off the top of his head, and seemingly collecting on his eyebrows, chin, and jaw. His brown tweed suit jacket fell around his protruding belly. Reaching high above his head, he writes a bullet point followed by “White Lie.” He slowly turned to face the crowd of students while simultaneously inhaling. “Humans also lie in order to gain an advantages over one another. …show more content…
For example, when you told your little brother than trading his full sized Snickers for your red vines is a good trade. This lie is known as a Malicious Lie” There is another brief pause when he turns back to the board and repeats the same process as before, and that pause allowed students to scribble down a few messy notes. “The final reason that we will talk about in this class, is lying is protect ourselves, and prevent other from gaining an advantage over us. This is most commonly found when keeping secrets hidden, and thus it is called a Cover-up lie.” After writing the last bullet point, Dr. Renholds turns around and removes his bare wire glasses. He reaches into his jacket and stores his spectacles. He looks up to the class, his sunken eyes were smaller and deeper now. “These are the three main categories of lies that we use in this class. Now, each of these have different, more specialized forms within them. For example, a Boldfaced lie is told with a straight face and mannerism of someone telling the truth;however, Defamation is a when you lie about someone’s character, think political ads. These are both malicious in nature, but are done for different reasons. We will cover those differences in later classes, and if you look at the syllabus, you will see when we will talk about them.” Erin sat in the middles of the lecture hall. and is half listening to Dr. Renholds, half flipped through the pages of the syllabus with one hand. His chin is placed in his palm with his long fingers running up his cheek . He has curly black hair and a gaunt figure, though it is his face that is most notable about him. Not for attractive reason, but for how uncanny he looked. His eyes are green and draw attention away from is large and pointed nose. The nose Draws attention away from his thick black frame glasses, and the glasses draw attention away from the glass eye Erin had sitting in the left side of his skull. He had gotten it after a line drive hit him in the eye while he is playing third base. His face is like a never ending mobius strip of distraction. The rest of the lecture is spent discussing the minute and technical details of the class. Erin is a junior, and this is spring semester. He had sat through so many syllabus day lectures that he could probably recite the majority of it without reading beyond the schedule. He is just about to finish reading and mentally check out when he notes something odd. “Excuse me!” he said, “I is flipping ahead and I noticed that the section on cheating is omitted. is this a mistake?” “Ahhh. I glad
“Lying is a basic human reaction, and this is the class where we study it.” Dr. Renholds pauses. “We lie to keep people safe from nasty truths; just like when your Daddy told you that Fifi went to live on a farm upstate. We call these lies White Lies, and for the most part they are harmless. We use them to maintain the status quo of our lives and emotions.”
He turns away from his podium, and reaches up to the old dusty chalkboard. The remnants of past lectures remain smeared across the grey-green slab of slate. Renholds is a man that is made to work in academia. He is on the shorter side of five foot six and with a wide frame. His face is round, and his sunken eyes hid behind his glasses, fixed into a slight squint from years of intense reading. His mouth is thin and is flanked by deep wrinkles that meet his mouth with a slight smile. His silver hair is slowly falling off the top of his head, and seemingly collecting on his eyebrows, chin, and jaw. His brown tweed suit jacket fell around his protruding belly. Reaching high above his head, he writes a bullet point followed by “White Lie.” He slowly turned to face the crowd of students while simultaneously inhaling. “Humans also lie in order to gain an advantages over one another. …show more content…
For example, when you told your little brother than trading his full sized Snickers for your red vines is a good trade. This lie is known as a Malicious Lie” There is another brief pause when he turns back to the board and repeats the same process as before, and that pause allowed students to scribble down a few messy notes. “The final reason that we will talk about in this class, is lying is protect ourselves, and prevent other from gaining an advantage over us. This is most commonly found when keeping secrets hidden, and thus it is called a Cover-up lie.” After writing the last bullet point, Dr. Renholds turns around and removes his bare wire glasses. He reaches into his jacket and stores his spectacles. He looks up to the class, his sunken eyes were smaller and deeper now. “These are the three main categories of lies that we use in this class. Now, each of these have different, more specialized forms within them. For example, a Boldfaced lie is told with a straight face and mannerism of someone telling the truth;however, Defamation is a when you lie about someone’s character, think political ads. These are both malicious in nature, but are done for different reasons. We will cover those differences in later classes, and if you look at the syllabus, you will see when we will talk about them.” Erin sat in the middles of the lecture hall. and is half listening to Dr. Renholds, half flipped through the pages of the syllabus with one hand. His chin is placed in his palm with his long fingers running up his cheek . He has curly black hair and a gaunt figure, though it is his face that is most notable about him. Not for attractive reason, but for how uncanny he looked. His eyes are green and draw attention away from is large and pointed nose. The nose Draws attention away from his thick black frame glasses, and the glasses draw attention away from the glass eye Erin had sitting in the left side of his skull. He had gotten it after a line drive hit him in the eye while he is playing third base. His face is like a never ending mobius strip of distraction. The rest of the lecture is spent discussing the minute and technical details of the class. Erin is a junior, and this is spring semester. He had sat through so many syllabus day lectures that he could probably recite the majority of it without reading beyond the schedule. He is just about to finish reading and mentally check out when he notes something odd. “Excuse me!” he said, “I is flipping ahead and I noticed that the section on cheating is omitted. is this a mistake?” “Ahhh. I glad