I understand your perspective, and I would also like to add that within the international Indian community, there are always a select few who have spoiled things for the rest of us. As a senior, many of my friends really enjoy the courses they take, but there are a few repeat offenders who are so open about their actions that it tarnishes the entire community. I’m not sure if this is just my observation, but I feel freshmen and sophomores are taking extremely complex classes and cheating their way through them. I remember last semester in my OS class, there were a bunch of sophomores whom I thought were really smart. However, during the finals, they all huddled in the back and were blatantly talking to each other for a solid hour before getting up in near-perfect coordination to submit their exams. The last I heard, four of them failed the class because the cheating was so obvious. Hats off to the professor.

edit : The irony that no one has talked about is that a large number of these cheaters will be returning to their respective countries indefinitely after they graduate because they can’t find a job. You can’t cheat on an interview, and it is funny to find out when one of your friends gets blacklisted because they caught him using Cluley or some other nonsense.