1985_04 The Daily Collegian April 1985

              10 The Daily Collegian
News
Princeton's snitch rule finally falls
(CPS) — A transfer student successfully
has challenged — at least for the moment
— one of the nation's last honor systems
to require students to snitch on campus
Princeton inadvertantly has admitted
Wade Randlett, 20, despite Randlett's
refusal to abide by the school's 92-year-
old student honor code.
Though signing a pledge to uphold the
code is required for admission to Prince¬
ton, Randlett, who transferred from the
University of California at Berkeley,
objects to the provision requiring students
to report cheaters.
"If you had an honor code where there
was no clause about turning people in.
honor would be much better served,"
Randlett said.
Then someone can come through here
[Princeton] and say 'I could have cheated.
There was nobody to turn me in," he said.
Most universities agree. Many schools
that have student honor codes have deleted
provisions requiring students to turn in
"We want to instill a feeling of honor,"
said Amy Jarmon, academic support
director at the College of William and
Mary, whose honor code deleted its snitch
requirement in the early 1970s.
The University of West Virginia made a
similar change. Stanford's honor code
requires studenu only to "take an active
part" in stopping cheating.
"It makes mo're sense to give students a
range of options," said Stanford judicial
affairs officer Sally Cole.
"Studenu could, for example, make
disapproving noises in class if they saw
cheating,"she noted. "You can extinguish
a lot of behaviors with social pressure.
Cheating is one of them."
Cole said a survey found 20 percent of
Stanford studenu say they ignore instances
of cheating.
A random sample of schools shows that
aside from Princeton, only the U.S. mili¬
tary academies require studenu to turn in
cheaters.
Military cadets do not, however, have
sign pledges to abide by the code in
order to gain admission.
Princeton officals declined to comment
on the content of the school's honor code,
saying that studenu are responsible for h!
Dean Joan Girgus did, however, call
the code "the heart of our existence."
Student members of the honor code
committee could not be reached for
Good friends will give you a break
when you Ve broke.
The dinner was sensational. So was the
check. The problem is, the theater tickets that
you insisted on buying broke your whole
budget. Enough to declare bankruptcy by the
time the coffee arrived. _,
^    A nudge under the tableand a certain
destitute look in the eye were enough to
; v^      » produce the spontaneous loan only a
k^maWma^^-^ K»od friend is ready to make.
Jj  A      I 'ow do you repay him? First
■H^B I    1 the cash, then the only beer equal
Klr^ t0 his generosity: Lowenbrau.
Ldwenbrau. Here's to good friends.
They discovered Randlett's refusal to
sign the pledge only after Randlett himi1
told them about it.
Princeton administrators decided to
admit Randlett anyway because it «it
their mistake.
But they're making him take all his tea
in a room separate from his colleagnet,
under tbe watchful eye of a gradnite
student.
"It's basically punishment," Rand tat
said. "It's saying 'We're not going to
consider what your actual stand is. WtfJ
like to throw you out but we can't "
April 12,1985 11
political 'charity' campaign pulled
(CPS) - After encountering heavy        Until last June the TIA .in-,    v ,
(CPS) — After encountering heavy
i00gressional pressure, the National
College Republicans have dropped a half-
brttious campaign to get college students
M-adopt" individual Nicaraguan rebels.
The group has dropped iu "Save the
loniras" fund drive, only a week after it
^launched.
•Some people have no sense of humor
tout Ihis sort of thing," College Repub-
an Deputy Director Jeff Pandin said.
Taj College Republicans launched their
nrt, Pandin said, to publicize private-
dor efforts to back the Nicaraguan reb-_
i, with relief supplies, and to help the
Reagan administration win approval for
|itne»ed government funding for the
Pandin said the "campaign" was really
st a poster "roughly" modeled on a
iave ihe Children"poster, which solicits
(nations by pointing out that for just a
w cents a day, patrons can support an
povenshed child abroad.
•For 53 cents a day, you can support a
.icaraguan freedom-fighter," the College
' "—- poster said.
Until last June, the CIA aided rebels
ngjuing the Nicaraguan SSSS
Since Congress, upon discovering the
ren^J J** •R;eagan "^""'ration favor,
renewed aid to the rebel,, claiming.
Un?nnr,,f°rnmem and ,he Soviet
nth,,r . .? '° "port rev°l«'ion to
other Central American countries.
To help the administration and the po¬
tt a tion a?^"athe C°"ege Repub!icaru'
some 5,000 posters m mid-March, but
quickly was attacked in Congress
On March 19, Rep,. Jim Leach (R.
Iowa) and Mel Levine (D-Calif), bran¬
dished a copy of the College Republican
poster on the floor of the House of Repre¬
sentatives as they introduced legislation to
ban all forms of private U.S. aid/for the
Leach contend, the Founding Father,
believed the "American citizens should
not be allowed to wage war on govern¬
ment, with which the U.S. is at peace and
with which Congress has specifically
proscribed intervention."
The groups funneling aid to the Nicara¬
guan rebels have "decided to uke foreign
policy into their own hands," Leach said.
Several congressmen.endorsed the Col¬
lege Republican campaign, Pandin
claimed, but the overall reaction suggested
it would not help renew congressional
support for the rebels.
"Because we're associated with the
Republican Party, people uke what we do
as having party approval," be said. "We
have to be sensitive to that."
The Save the Children Foundation was
unhappy too, claiming the College
Republican poster violated the copyright
on iu poster.
Pandin said any fund, donated will be
returned to the sender.
The GOP organization had planned to
purchase non-miliury supplies such as
medicine. Pandin declined to say how the
group planned to transport tbe supplies to
the rebels. ■
Pandin said College Republican leaden
did not estimate how much the campaign
would raise.
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