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Monday, February 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Cheating...
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cheat, they are as naive as they are," Gowen says.
And it's usually pretty easy to pick out the work of "ghost writers," he says, particularly when it is compared with work that a student has done in class.
ABOUT 4,000 STUDENTS enrol in freshman-sophomore English classes each semester. Gowen says, but probably less than a per cent of their work involves cheating.
Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology and chairman of the department, says that he heard of two or three incidents of cheating by students in his department this year, but that the cases were handled by the department up before the department's review board.
However, all three say there is no way to estimate how much cheating actually goes on.
"We catch the dumb cheaters," Gowen says, conceding that there are successful women.
article II of the Rules and Regulations of the Article Senate, adopted March 19,
1970, has a section dealing with academic misconduct.
"ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT by students," it says, "shall include giving or receiving of unauthorized aid on examinations or in the preparation of tests." Another assignment is knowing ruisrepresenting the source of any academic work."
The rules say that an instructor may "treat as unsatisfactory" any student work which is the product of academic misconduct and that, where possible, there will be means provided at departmental levels to deal with misconduct.
The rules also state that if a student is unsatisfied with the decision of the instructor, department or school on a charge from the University, she must seek review by the University Judicialty.
THE RULES establish these penalties:
—Admition and warning that certain actions represent academic misconduct and, in some cases, cause more severe disciplinary action.
Censure, a written reprimand.
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McCluggage says it is important in dealing with a student suspected of cheating that "you don't convict him without letting him defend himself."
A student of ten has plagiarized in a paper, McCluggage says, because the student
doesn't understand when to quote and when not to.
GOWEN SAYS that one such case went to court several years ago. Noting that a charge of plagiarism or cheating is actionable as slander or libel, he says he instructs teachers to come to him first when they suspect a student of cheating.
Usually an instructor will ask the student to do the assignment over again or reduce it.
The two then try to find the source that the student has misused if plagiarism is involved, and Gowen later confronts the student with the evidence.
If it is a first offense or if it arose out of a
basic misunderstanding of, plagiarism,
Gowen says, the penalty is usually mild,
as giving an F for the paper, which
then has to be made up later.
Gowen says he notifies the Dean of Women's or the Dean of Men's office of the incident and the proposed penalties.
IT IS PART of a due process, he says, which is both equitable and fair, in which the student is notified of his rights and confidentiality is honored.
The cheater by and large is a student who's not yet become integrated in the academic community," he says, "one who
tends to view college as a continuation of high school."
Often he is the student with a moderate or light class schedule, who senses that he is in a jeopardy or who is unable to live up to the expectations of his parents and others.
McCluggage says that the atmosphere a teacher creates in the classroom has a lot to do with whether his students will cheat.
STUDENTS ARF more likely to cheat on those exams where the questions are unfair or too technical and are more likely to cheat on them than they have little or no respect, he says.
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