Integrity | Score

This is a stencil inspired by the recent cheating scandal that happened at UC Berkeley for a lower div intro CS class. The idea of cheating on an exam, homework, and/or project is not a new thing to Berkeley as well as many other universities and schools. If I were to graffiti this, I would put this on the Dwinelle plaza, on the steps to the VLSB lecture rooms, near the doors of Wheeler (to Wheeler auditorium) and in the open courtyard space in front of Pimentel Hall. These three spaces are home to large lecture rooms where many students, including myself, have taken midterm/final exams at UC Berkeley.

My stencil can be read two ways. 1) The literal way is integrity over score to emphasize that one should value integrity over a score on an exam. 2) The second way is if you read it as a fraction. Even if you have a high score, but if your integrity is low, you will get a small number eg. 1/90. But if your integrity is high and your score is low, that number will outweigh if you cheated on the exam eg. 100/60. Ideally, you want to get 1 or 100/100. Greater than one means you should study more but good job sticking to your morals. Less than one means you need reevaluate your principles.