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Harvard University is under fire from faculty and students for secretly photographing about 2,000 undergraduates in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study on classroom attendance.

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The experiment was disclosed at a faculty meeting Tuesday and first reported in The Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

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Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis asked administrators about the study during the meeting, saying he learned about it from two colleagues.

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"You should do studies only with the consent of the people being studied," Lewis told The Boston Globe on Wednesday.

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Brett Biebelberg, a junior involved in student government, called the study's secretive nature "strikingly hypocritical," given that the university recently adopted an honor code for the first time.

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