To get their diploma at a New Jersey dental school, students cheated by submitting paperwork for procedures they didn’t actually perform, and they told the New York Post that almost all the students in their class were involved. Widespread cheating? Old news.

The students also say their professors knew about this extensive cheating. Lax academic oversight? Also old news.

What’s novel about this latest cheating scandal is the reaction of the university’s dean, Cecile Feldman. Lo and behold she intends to hold all guilty parties to account, even if the entire class of 2006 is stopped from graduating. And she means to investigate if previous graduates were similarly engaged in cheating.

Now that’s news.