University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1982
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Eldredge
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legislator from Douglas County is State Rep David Miller of Eudora.
Eldredge, who described herself as a moderate Republican, also said she would prefer a candidate who shared a similar political philosophy. She said selection of a more conservative senator could spell defeat for Douglas County Republicans in 1984.
Mertlyn Brown, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, and the timing of Eldredge's decision could boost GOP chances of a victory. The state now have a 24 to 16 majority in the Senate.
"I THINK this will be an advantage for her
successor, because it gives that person a chance to establish himself, get some seniority and experience.
Brown said that Eldredge's successor would need to be highly visible during the next two years to offset Democratic ambitions to recapture the seat in 1984.
Jim Pilger, executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, said Democrats would target Eldredge's seat because of the vulnerability of unselected officials at the polls.
"This will certainly add credibility to making it a more important seat, and it will change our outlook on it," he said.
PLOGER ALSO said that the recruitment of
The names of several prospective successors are already being thrown about by Douglas County Republicans. Topping the list are Miller, Beverly Bradley, chairman of the Douglas County Commission, Wint Winter, a lawrence attorney who previously ran for state represen-
tor, and Dong Lambon, a lawrence paint contractor who was defeated in a House race this year.
quality Democratic challengers would become easier because of Eldredge's departure.
Winter, who discussed the opening with many Douglas County Republicans yesterday, said he
"As we speak, I am a candidate. I am pleased with the support and the things that were said to
me, and I would not be entering the race unless I thought I could win it," Winter said.
ONE POTENTIAL candidate who quickly withdrew from the competition was Hank Booth, who was defeated by Democrat Nancy Hiebert in this fall's county commission race. Booth said the job would take too much time away from his family.
Miller scheduled a press conference this morning in order to make what he called a political announcement. He could not be reached yesterday for comment.
Lamborn, who lost to State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, on Nov. 2, said he was interested in the job. But he stopped short of announcing his candidacy.
Eldridge's decision did not come as a complete surprise to her legislative colleagues. They said they could understand her decision, but they still expressed disappointment. —
"SHE WAS a very competent legislator, and I felt she was a very well-informed legislator who did a lot of hard work for the Regens budget," said State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence.
Charlton found himself in the same position that Eldridge's successor will be cast into $a_3$ couple of weeks. In 1800, Charlton filled the vacant position Rep Mike Glover, who resigned late in 1979.
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Cheating
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student a person to take a final exam for him, said Robert Adams, associate dean of the College. Adams is the hearing officer for cases of academic misconduct in the College that are not handled by the professor or department chairman.
Only a few cases a year are taken to him, he said, because KU professors who catch a student cheating may lower the student's grade or give the student a failing grade for the course.
If the professor wants the student to be suspended or expelled, the case must go through administrative channels to ensure the student's due process rights. Adams said,
FINAL DECISIONS are by Deann Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, he said. Students can appeal Tacha's decision to the University's judicial board.
But most students do not fight the administration's decisions, Adams said. In all the cases he has been involved in, the administration does not
He said most students caught cheating were not hardened to the moral aspect of what they learn.
"The students really, honestly found themselves caught in a trap," Adams said.
"They were not so much chagrined at the punishment they received, but that they had
officially been recognized as cheaters," he said. "Their own conscience bore them."
And some perhaps never worry about the morality of cheating in the success-at-all-costs model.
BUT WITH THE pressure for good grades to boost the stiff competition for medical and law schools and to find jobs in the shrinking market for college graduates, some students cheat regardless of the discomforts their consciences and University policy may bring, administrators
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said some students went to college only for the degree, not the education. To them, a degree is a "union card" to a job.
Those students are only playing a game, Ambler said, and may be willing to bend the
Students who are academically weak also may be tempted to cheat, he said.
"They may have come here genuinely wanting an education, but their abilities are limited." he
A LARGER GROUP of students are capable of doing well but have not discovered that they must study harder in college than in high school to keep up the same kind of grades, he said.
lot of students are playing with dynamite with their study habits," Ambler said.
"That's a responsibility I put on the student. A
He said professors who assigned semester grades on the basis of only one or two exams or a quarter.
"The amount of emphasis that we place on a few exams puts tremendous pressure on students. The entire grade may be riding on your performance during two hours of the semester." That's a heavy burden, and I can understand the student has more temptation to cheat. Ambler said.
THE ATMOSPHERE at a test can also enhance the ability, and thus the temptation, to cheat, he said.
Darwin Daicoff, professor of economics,
teaches an introductory class of about 150
students. Cheating is a big concern to him,
and he has devised and revised several
techniques to prevent it.
Part of the success of these techniques is their secrecy, and he said he would not reveal them.
Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, said he tried to make cheating difficult.
But he admitted to the standard techniques adopted by many teachers of large classes; using alternate test forms and "stomping up and down the aisles."
He said he used alternate test forms "so it
doesn't do the student any good to look at the neighbor's paper.
"I tell the class in no uncertain terms that I am very tolerant about lots of things but I am not at all," he added.
"If you want to get me mad, then you cheat."
CHEATING GS is especially serious when it hurrs another student, he said. Once he caught a student who had picked up another student's paper after an exam, erased the name and address.
"The worst thing that we probably have, and it's very difficult to catch, is people using scissors."
"I could tell by the performance on the exam." Bricker said. "That person was expelled.
Although he hates cheating, he said, a teacher can only go so far in guarding against it.
GENOVA SAID he felt sorry for students who
"We do not use field glasses or spy glasses to see people cheating. We do not run a detective
Some professors said they did not hesitate to change a cheater's test or course grade to an "F." Professors who have discovered that a paper is plagiarized sometimes allow the student to pass. And then grade it do not letter, said Anthony Govind, chairman of the philosophy department.
cheated. Most students who cheat are under constant pressure.
Rather than failing discovered plagiarizers, he asks them to re-write their papers, he said.
"I personally don't like to punish them on "moral grounds." he said.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he also did not like to use grades as punishment for cheating.
"I am not opposed to an attempt to modify the behavior of students, but I am opposed to using a computer."
“A grade ought to be purely a reflection of what a student knows. If you change a grade as punishment, you are giving an untrue impersonation to people of that student's abilities.”
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Whatever the cost, the benefits of cheating are dubious because they are only temporary, he said.
certainly cheating on a grand scale could earn the student a baccalaureate with honors.
"But once you get into the real world, the cheating stops. The accomplishment is not paper and pencil anymore. It's the "B" student who will learn to learn everything biospyly who will succeed on the job."
"It's like cheating on a crossword or cheating at solitaire. They're cheating themselves."
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