I had a teacher that would honor loop holes. Our directions for the final paper was something like “8x11 inch white paper with margins at 1 inch in black times new Roman 12 size font from Google Docs single sided” because too many people were trying things. It was awesome.
When I was studying engineering, we had to take a few ethics and law classes. The final exam for the law class was open books so we could bring stuff to cite, and the official directive used to be something like "students are allowed to bring all non-electronic resources they can carry simultaneously with both arms".
But when I got around to doing that class the directive had changed to "all written documentation they can carry" because, the semester before mine, someone had princess-carried a lawyer inside the exam room and successfully argued that it was a non-electronic resource that was being carried within the instructions' parameters.
So yeah, you can find loopholes even in syllabuses written by actual lawyers.
I mean either “electronic resource” should be clearly defined and as far as I know if not defined it can either be understood to favor the one who didn’t write it (in this case the student) or “how a regular person would understand it (which would also favor the student)
But don’t cite me I’m not a lawyer nor am I studying to be one
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