Columnist Ross Griffith, a senior, discusses whether prescription drug abuse is academic dishonesty.

“The most immediate problem with the abuse of drugs like Ritalin – and what makes it distinctly different from past trends in drug use – is that many people feel that it constitutes intellectual cheating. I do not go so far as to say that abusing Ritalin actually is cheating, because hyper-focused students are still doing their own work; they are just doing it much faster. According to our Code of Academic Integrity, cheating is tantamount to stealing someone else’s work.”

Read his full column here.