# NPR interviews Mike Rotch
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/npr-interviews-mike-rotch/421060
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 30, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/npr-interviews-mike-rotch/421060 "2007-09-30T20:34:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/npr-interviews-mike-rotch/421060/1 "2007-09-30T20:34:36Z")
Please read the thread title out loud.
Fun, isn’t it? Ok, now for the explanation.
I was listening to NPR in the car yesterday and nearly had to pull over when I heard [this story](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14811147) about a cheating scandal at a New Hampshire high school. The issue is divisive, and apparently it was difficult to find anyone in town to speak to.
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> In front of the high school where the so-called Notorious Nine allegedly stole the exams, some students try to foil a reporter’s interview by shrieking and throwing bottles.
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> Other kids try the same thing, using an electric guitar and portable amplifier while trailing a reporter as if a mariachi.
Luckily, amidst all the chaos, one young man was responsible enough to go on record and give the real story.
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> Mike Rotch, a junior, said the students deserve to be punished by their principal rather than a prosecutor.
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> “I think they are coming down hard. I mean, cheating is bad, but it’s not like it’s unheard of anywhere in America,” he said.
Evidently Mr. Rotch’s associates Hugh Jass and Heywood Jablome were unavailable for comment.
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### Author:  [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/npr-interviews-mike-rotch/421060/2 "2007-09-30T20:36:36Z")
[This guy](http://www.michaelhunt.com/home.html) is selling a house near where I live. I giggle every time I go past. Yeah, I’m 12.