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A conservative professor in the University of Wisconsin system weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding Samantha Fulnecky, a University of Oklahoma student who received a zero out of 25 on an essay assignment after invoking the Bible.

“To give a zero on an assignment like this, especially the way that the assignment was worded, I think really, unless there’s something I’m missing … I feel like it has to be punitive,” said UW-River Falls professor Trevor Tomesh.

Tomesh, who made it clear that he speaks for himself, and not on behalf of his university or the University of Wisconsin system, said that in his classroom, to give a student a zero requires outright cheating on behalf of the student, or simply not turning in the assignment.

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