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“I strongly suspect when we start revoking grades, we’ll start revoking degrees.”

– Edward Jackson, chancellor of Southern University in Louisiana, discussing last week’s announcement that a worker in the school’s registrar’s office accepted money to change the grades of current and former students. More than 540 graduate and undergraduate students have been implicated in the scandal, which dates back to 1995. University officials last week turned their report over to legal authorities, who say they plan to prosecute, reported the Associated Press. (“Students in La. Suspected of Buying Grades,” AP, Apr. 1)