Friday, October 24,1975
University Daily Kansan
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Cheat sheet
Crittb papers are small pieces of paper that contain information needed at the time of a test. The paper must be small enough to easily curl up the sleeve, under the test, or under the cover.
Cheating at the University of Kansas is:
B. Widely practiced.
D. Similar to an Icobe
E. All of the above
Cheats never win except in class
C. Looked down on.
D. Similar to an iceberg.
if you copied your neighbor's answer to
their email, you probably got a
knock-knock KU student.
It is very common.
E. All of the above.
A graduate student in geology, Rex Crick and his wife Golda, a graduate student in education, developed an idea for a handbook for elementary and secondary school students.
Visual copying is the second most exploited form. To accomplish this, pupils look at other pupils' tests, and secure the answers. Sometimes students offer their answers to the teacher in a safe. As a sophomore said, "Someone cheating off me may get a wrong answer."
More than 75 per cent of the cheaters cited grades as their reason for practicing the art. And it appears to be an art, with much more authenticity, of the method resorted to by the artists.
Two types of cheating on tests are widespread. The first, crib notes (cheat notes) are used for testing a small piece of paper, then concealed in the hand, under the test, up the sleeve, taped onto a pencil, slid, or under a watchband, in a sock top or pants cuff, or another secret hole.
Forty five students were questioned at random recently on their methods, feelings, thoughts and reasons behind cheating in a math exam. Twenty-five students were questioned admitted to cheating while at KU.
"Sure i eat, to get a better grade," said one freshman.
Substitute for the piece of paper are matchbooks, kleenex, notebooks (open and closed), text books, hands, arms, legs, shoe soles and desk tops.
A freshman criber said he cheats because "I don't study hard enough."
On a lesser scale, other methods are employed. Notes are taped on the back of books that are used by some teachers, are blank-paged books bought in the bookstore for tests.
With the equipment purchased with the award funds, Nelson said, a professor can make slides of manuscripts, picture in textbooks, or any other visual teaching aid he may be passing around the class or showing on an oaque prolector.
Through Marion Bickford, professor of geology, and Walter Smith, associate dean
Sometimes when taken into class not all of the pages are blank; a few contain valuable information "Test burglar's" steal a copy of the test sometime before it is administered.
"I's (cheating) kind of foolish, but kind of fun," said a graduate student.
Sign language is effective in cheating, especially for true-false or multiple choice
John P. Tharp
Staff Writer
"test-takers," a rare breed, also thrive in overcrowded lectures. These are individuals who assume another student's role and are not enough to complete an exam for them.
relays. Packed classrooms aid in the verbal exchange of answers.
Some students said the back files of tests kept in structured living quarters constitute a form of cheating. These are available for pre-test inspection by qualified residents.
About 45 per cent of the people interviewed indicated that they had cheated in college, but almost twice that many said they had cheated in high school. Many students have been at high school, and that the high school atmosphere was more conducive to cheating.
"I cheated on important things in high school, but not in college." said a junior.
Statistically, one half of the high school cheaters entering the University quit cheating. The 45 per cent figure parallels 42 per cent, which was the average of the 80 per cent who asked when asked what they thought was the proportion of KU students who cheated.
According to Lynn Nelson, professor of history, the $5,000 grant was used to purchase equipment, developing and mounting equipment. A graduate student was paid to go through the entire collection and reproduce a slide that was of inferior quality be said.
"I like to think it's low," guessed a senior on
"I'll probably high, over 50 per
person."
These statistics don't mean that almost
Endowment grants fund projects
Almost $100,000 in grants from the University of Kansas Endowment Association has been disbursed since 1972 in support of the quality of classroom instruction.
According to Phil McKnight, director of the Office of Instructional Resources, the Endowment Association has given $30,000 annually since 1973 to fund more than 60 projects benefiting thousands of KU students.
McKnight said recently that the funded projects varied from computerizing introductory Latin lessons to getting a slide collection for a botany class.
In any given year, he said, it's not unusual
requests of more than $100,000 for grants.
The awards are administered through the 13-members Office of Instructional Resources Advisory Board, McKnight said. The board receives and debates the requests for the funds, eliminating what it considers to be unnecessary items.
The awards for the advancement of instruction began in 1972 when then Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, George Waggoner, secured a $15,000丹福 Foundation grant for faculty development, McKnight said. He said that Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers asked the Endowment Association for funds to supplement that grant. The Endowment and at the request of 1972 and 1973 students and at the requests of chancellors Raymond Nichols and Archie R. Dykes, has given $30,000 annually since. The program received another $30,000 grant last spring for the 1975-1976 academic year, he said.
Controlling the committee's decision is a list of guidelines that ensure the award won't interfere with the applicant's academic responsibilities. Each request must also include a specific breakdown of expenditures.
"I think most people have used their money very carefully, as they should," McKnight said. "Endowment money comes in amounts and it should be spent wisely."
McKnight said most of the funds requested on each application had been cut considerably, eliminating items such as travel, which could be provided by the applicants themselves. A condition of the award is that the project it funds be evaluated through Feedback, an analysis by the applicant, or both.
McKnight said about one-third of the money went to pay for release time for the faculty member involved in the project, one-third paid the salary of another person to help with the supplies and paid the other for the supplies and expenses necessary to complete the project.
Receiving the largest allocation of any award given so far was a project to completely overhaul and catalog the department of history's collection of 5,000 slides.
of the school of education, they received a $2,000 award, spent a year researching their topic and now have half of the handbooks ready for publication.
Two professors of botany used their
skills in the creation a slide collection of
species of Kansas plants.
According to James Hamrick, assistant professor of botany, the growing cycle of most of the plants they were studying didn't match with the semester cycle of the University.
"In the fall semester," he said, "most plants are dormant, and in the spring the plants don't really green up until the last two weeks of the course."
Dierck Casselman
Staff Writer
Hamrick said it was nearly impossible to teach students about plants they'd never seen.
Harurick and William Bloom, assistant professor of botany, received a £70 award for his work and bought film to begin photographing as many Kansas species as they could.
Another audio-visual project that received an award video-taped fresh-men-sophomore English classes to help instructors improve their teaching styles.
According to James Gowen, director of freshmen-sophomore English, the department discovered that it own sophisticated technology and offered a federally-funded graduate program. He said the equipment was ideal to provide an instant critique of a professor's teaching techniques. Only the lack of tapes and software kept it from being operational, he said.
In the fall of 1794, Gowen said, he received a warrant for the purchase of tapes and maintenance supplies.
Instructors were required to video-
the session of each of their
classes as said.
He said that the video-taping replaced a supervisor who would attend a class and, at times, could not meet with the instructor for a teaching his teaching skills until hours or days later.
A combined project of the history department and the department of special libraries system receives a $2,100 award for the collection of several oral history tapes.
enrolled during spring 1975 collected oral history tapes on subjects such as the application of family history on local communities; the reconstruction of minority attitudes toward Jim Crow practices prevalent in Lawrence at the turn of the century, and bootlegging activities in Toeeka and Lawrence in the late 1930s.
According to Tom Lewin, assistant professor of history, the 12 to 14 students
According to George Griffin, Kansas Collection librarian and co-sponsor of the project, the transcripts of the tapes will be housed in the Spencer Research Library.
Lewin said the course was being taught this semester without support from the office of Instructional Resources. He said he would be available to 20 hours a week transcribing the tapes.
McKnight said anyone, including those who had received previous funding, was not aware of the changes.
Several projects have been funded on a second year basis, he said.
McKnight said that beyond the endowment awards, the University should plan a central program that deals with course content.
the program would provide a media specialist for consultation with instructors, a centralized purchasing agency to help choose the proper equipment necessary for instruction, and centralized equipment maintenance.
one-half of the student body is actively involved in cheating. They do indicate that about one half of the students have at one time cheated in college. Why?
"I was unprepared for the exam," a sophomore explained.
A junior justified it by claiming, "I have a bad memory."
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"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
The first recorded words of Christ after his baptism by John The Baptist were: "MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD" Matt. and Luke 14.14. In the Gospel of John 10.15: He said, "And AMEN WE BROKEN IN HEAVEN two." He said "Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but My Words will not pass away."
It is said that Mr. Wesley once remarked to Mrs. Westy: "I think you told that child the same thing twenty times!" "Maybe so, but he did not learn it on the 1911" England and the world has been greatly blessed from what John and Charles learned from their Mother. The following is a reprint of an article in this column in January 1972. If I owned the newspaper think I would run it more than twenty times, maybe every day for a year. You folks who approve of it and "Take Matters To The Lord in Praiser" ask His blessing to follow.
A number of writings in The Old Testament God said of His People: "YE ARE MY WITNESSES!"—one place is Isaiah 43:10. A number of times Christ said to His Disciples: "YE ARE MY WITNESSES!"—ONE PLACE IS Luke 24:48 as he was about to ascend to Heaven.
In 2nd Chronicles 16:9 The Spirit of God says: "FOR THE EYES OF GOD RUN TO AND FROTHROUGH TO THE WHOLE EARTH TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG IN THE BEHALF OF THEM WHOSE HEART IS PERFECT TOWARDS HIM!" Desiring to be a faithful and true witness, bearing one pleasing to the eyes of God Almighty, and having received that which he had received, PROCEEDED OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD" as recorded in the King James Version of Holy Scriptures, the writer wishes to present the following WINESS and TESTIMONY:
God is the author of racial separation. It pleased Him to divide mankind into different races. Repeatedly throughout the Old Testament the Hebrews were commanded by God not to intermingle or mix with the Greeks, who are commanded by His Law governing all races, even as we do His Ten Commandments.
"EVEN THOUGH THE SUPREME COURT RULED SEGREGATION 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL' WITHOUT ANY CHANGE WHATEVER BEING MADE IN THE WRITTEN CONSTITUTION, THE LAW OF GOD STILL STANDS. NO COURT CAN CHANGE IT!" History records more than one civilization that disintegrated because it transgressed God's Law and condoned racial integration.
Jesus, our Savior, affirmed God's Law regarding racial separation. There was a form of racial separation and segregation—segregation between Jews and Samaritans—when He was on earth in the flesh. Certainly there is no record of His condemning this Jesus declared, "I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." He fulfilled this by urging us by teachings and examples to be respectful, friendly and helpful to all men. This is love to our fellow man in proper form—in its proper form—Christ ideal in race relations recognizes the obvious fact of race discrimination. We are responsible for ensuring that our own vay, retaining their individuality and culture, while encouraging and working for the good of all races. A great Negro, Booker T. Washington, very wisely put it this way: "We can be as separate as the fingers on the hand; and like the fingers cooperate."
We are physical mortals here and on earth with differences as to race and sex; "AND THE LAW OF GOD REGARDING SEPARATION IN OUR RACIAL RELATIONS IS AS ABSOLUTE NOW AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, AND AS IT SHALL BE UNTO THE HEART. In this case we may declare that we shall be OF GOD (SAY 348) IF it BE OF GOD, YOU CANNOT OVERTHROW IT. LEST HAPLY YE BE FOUND EVEN TO FIGHT AGAINST GOD!"
In closing we will give a few suggestions if you wish to develop the thought of "FIGHTING GOD!"
The result of the Snake's suggestion that Eve Eat the Forbidden Fruit.
The result of the fight against God in Noah's Day!
The result of the fight against God warned of in Acts 5:34: Titus destruction of Jerusalem.
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