What a bizarre place that campus must have been!
I knew people who taught Saudis in other colleges in California, btw, and their observation was that Saudis just assumed that cheating was the normal way of passing a test. They paid other people to take their tests, they bought tests, you name it. Fortunately, they were so stupid (and probably arrogant, as well) that they often paid people who didn’t look even remotely like them, even to the densest proctor, or copied the mistakes off the tests they had bought. Busted!
As for Matthew Fox, I do recall that getting rid of him was quite a drawn-out process.
I’ve heard that same type of description of Saudis and Egyptians, from people who worked with them. Not only that they are completely bereft of morals as we would define them, but pretty stupid. Not sure why this keeps coming up with these two groups and not other Arab nationalities.
One more thing made life on that college campus even stranger. We were not far from U.C. Berkeley, which had an urgent shortage of student housing. Our dorms had extra space, so it was rented to a group of Berkeley kids. Of course, we being a small, private Catholic college, they considered themselves superior to us in every way, you could almost hear them thinking we were clinging to our guns and religion....