[subterfuge]

Right, because it's a well known fact that all Christians adhere to the honor code. This shows that students make lame excuses for cheating, nothing more.

Well gee wiz, all I've heard for the past 40 years is that all foreign peoples are at the top of the list of the honorable (especially the Asians!), so I don't understand how Asians could not understand our vaunted honor code.

And since they'd only been in the county less than a year I guess they hadn't figured out that you have to have a certain skin color, vote for certain politicians and say really stupid things about America to become untouchable.

Hmm, maybe asians are no more honorable than anyone else? Nah, couldn't be that...

[KarlInOhio]

Asia is a big continent. Although in the US Asian usually means East Asian, is there any chance that these Asians were of the Southwest Asian variety? (And I'm not asking about their neighbors the Israelis).

[AnotherUnixGeek]

so I don't understand how Asians could not understand our vaunted honor code.

Of course they understood it - cheating is cheating at Asian universities too. They just came up with an especially pathetic excuse for their cheating.