1991_12 The Daily Collegian December 1991

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6U)S .    The Daily Collegian • December 2, 4991
CBe^ting: Professors concerned with preventing crimes
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it's a serious violation of the
University's ethics, a breach of the
University's integrity*
Robert Merrill, professor of
geology, agreed.
"Cheating and plagiarism are
serious academic problems and
have no place in the University,"
hesaid.   •
Because of its seriousness, pen¬
alty is harsh for students who are
caught cheating and plagiarizing.
Under the California Code of
Regulations, cheating and plagia¬
rizing can result in expulsion,
suspension, or probation of a stu¬
dent
Probation is a form of academic
warning.
"There have been some stu¬
dents expelled from the Univer¬
sity because they were caught
cheating,'* Arnd t said. "Some failed
their courses.'"
According to the Policy on
Cheating and Plagiarism, profes¬
sors involved may take matters in
their own hands, or they may re¬
port the incident to their depart¬
ment chair.
The chair in turn will inform
the student of the charges in writ¬
ing, and will hold a meeting with
the involved professor, the in¬
volved student, and a faculty
member, staff member or student
of the accused student's choke.
The involved student has the right
to provide evidence proving oth¬
erwise to the charge.
If the student is found guilty of
the charges, he or she may appeal
to the dean of Student Affairs.
Otherwise, the student will receive
the original grade
Arndt said that students who
"The American
Republic is
now almost 200
years old, and
in tlie eyes of
the law women
are still not
equal with
lf m&L.The,   i
special
legislation
which will
remedy that
situation is the
Equal Rights
Amendment. Its
language is
short and
simple:
Equality of
rights under the
law shall not be
abridged in the
United States
or by any state
on account of
sex/'
—Bulletin of
the Baldwin
School,
Pennsylvania
September,
1974
want to appeal should know what
their rights are.He said students
should talk to their advisors and
obtain a copy of die Policy on
Cheating and Plagiarizing, which
spells out a student's rights under
such circumstances.
This cheating policy, said
Arndt, has not changed since 1964.
The only recent slight change, he
said, is to request faculty to submit
reports of cheating incidents that
they encounter.
Faculty and departments usu¬
ally have their own ways of han¬
dling and preventing cheating.
"I have a technique which I
prefer to employ," said Merrill.
The University's system is too
complicated and unclear."
"If I have a doubt whether a
student is keeping their eyes on
their paper, I will seat the student
right in front of the class to finish
the exam," he said.
Merrill said he will inform his
class of this policy before the exam
so they know what happens when
a student is called up front.
"Peer pressure is the best way
to stop cheating," he said.
Brandt Kehoe, chair of physics
department, said the department
uses several different exam papers
for each class so that each student
has a different exam from their
neighbor.
"Cheating usually occurs in
large classes, such as those GE
classes," Kehoe said.
Students who cheat, he said,
more often than not do so out of
desperation.
"Most of the people who cheat
don't do it very well. They copy
badly from other people who don't
know the answers as well, which
is a fairly desperate mean," said
Kehoe. "What they get doesn't help
them very much."
"There are students who
planned ahead to cheat, such as
stealing papers and conspiring, but
that is very seldom," he said.
Although there are no statis¬
tics, various departments said
cheating and plagiarizing is not a
big problem.
"We have the technique to pre¬
vent it until ifs not much of a
problem," said Kchoc.
"In my classes I have not no¬
ticed the high instances," said
Merrill.
Arndt said the University is
trying to publicize the unhealthy
aspects of cheating, and that there
plans to print brochures for fac¬
ulty and students
However, because of budget
cuts, the University has to raise
funds to print the brochures.
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