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Wednesday, May 2, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Cheating an issue as finals near
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Renorter
It's time for finals, and for many KU students the panic has struck. Suddenly, they're faced with an onslaught of term papers and essays that did not seem as terrifying when they were assigned in January.
The students have a few options though. They can pull a week's worth of all-nighters or they can jump off the Campanile to name two.
Or they can cheat.
To many students, cheating is a game to determine how far they can go to fool even the person they are trying to steal.
To others, however, it is a last resort.
other, however, it is a mailbox at a neighbor's test to develop a complicated
"There are a lot of ways to cheat if you really try," said a Kansas City, Mo., sophomore recently. "Usually you set up codes with someone, such as tapping your pencil in a certain number of times to indicate having a certain amount of money and so on."
"TVE EVEN USED a calculator with a large memory bank. You put the answers in the memory bank, or you can leave the calculator's window and pass the calculator around."
John Bunce, associate professor of mathematics, said he thought the calculator technique would be difficult to use in his calculus class and not allow the use of calculators in a test.
"First, it's not really fair to the students who do not have a calculator or who do not have as good a calculator," he said. "Also, he has confused the student, because he gets confused by the student."
He said two effective ways to prevent
cheating on exams was to check KU Ids and to hand out alternate tests.
"IF WETRY to act like we're serious, we not only stop people from cheating, but we know that they are cheating." he said. "I check IDs at random on the first exam. If students do not have their IDs with them, I have them sign their names and they cannot receive a grade until they come in."
He said an ID check was used to deter riders, people who take an exam for driving.
A Kansas City, Mo. senior, however, said she had succeeded in taking a friend's math class.
"We cut my picture off my ID and put it over her picture on her ID, she said. "Then we ironed the plastic cover back on her ID and it looked authentic.
"I HAD LEARNED to her name her quite well, and I started taking her weekly class. She was so much a semester. When I started taking the class for her, she had a strong F. She gave a C for her
"I would never do anything like that again because I don't want to think about what happens if I do it."
If she had been caught, her friend probably would have failed the course, Bunce said, and she probably would have been reprimanded.
"It's hard to say exactly, though, because each professor is different," he said.
The instructor or professor handles a cheating case first, and most cases will end
"GENERALLY WE have the instructor confront the student, unless it is a flarrant offense." Bunce said. "Then a letter is kept on file."
"The punishments range from giving the
student an F on the exam to give a student an E in the course. "He" said.
Bunce said teachers he knew had said it was difficult to suspend a student.
If a student or an instructor is unsatisfied with the result of a cheating or plagiarism case, he or she may file a case against University Judiciary. That is a board of 12 students and 12 faculty members that handles disputes between students, staff, and faculty members, and students and the administration.
ERIK RICHARDS, chairman of the Judiciary, said most students did not use this system because it entailed a lengthy procedure.
"I can't hear a case until every lower tribunal hears the case," he said.
"First, the instructor should handle it. Then it may go to the department head, then to the dean, then to an administrative office. When resolved by then, it may go to the Judiciary."
Richards said he had heard about four cheating cases this year. Only one had gone into a hearing and the others were settled. He added that the student went to court, the student was not found guilty.
THE STUDENT HAD received a two-year suspension for plagiarism on a thesis-type paper. Richards would not go into detail about the case, because, he said, he thought too much detail would identify the student. The teacher's library had found the punishment too harsh.
The student already has served a year of his suspension.
"I really felt sorry for him," Richardus said. "He's lost a year of school, and there is nothing he can do now that I asked." I know he did not forget it, but he said he just wanted to forget it.
Plagiarism on papers is either copying
material directly from a source without attribution or having someone else write the material.
A TOPEKA JUNIOR she had written a paper for a friend for a class they took together. She said the instructor had noticed that the two papers were similar and questioned her friend about it. She was given an F on the paper and her friend A.
She explained that her friend had spoken to the instructor about the essays before she did, and the instructor had told her friend that the first one who came to him would get
She said she was too embarrassed to talk to the instructor so she drowned the class.
Detecting plagranted planters is not easy, however. Dan McGovern, assistant insurer, said.
He said he had one case in which a father and son were in the same class, and the son had taken the test twice—once for his father.
"I HAD ONE case in which the person had taken about six or seven sources and did a cut and paste job," he said. "I had read one of the books, so it was really blunt."
"They both funked the test anyway, so we basically said we'd w/injure it," he said.
Cheating and plagiarism occurs most frequently in large lecture classes and classes that are offered every semester. Students know what the class requirements be will and old tests and old term papers are finaizing around Lawrence. McGearn said.
CHEATING AT KU does not seem to be possible because the cheaters are not cheaters who are caught is an indicator.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said her office handled about two cases a year.
Charles Himmelberg, professor of mathematics, said there were few cases in which the new method worked.
Disadvantaged students, tutors to be honored
A Student Achievement Day for students in the Supportive Educational Services program will take place from noon to 3 Friday afternoon at Potter Pavilion.
Eleven students will be recognized for their academic achievements and 10 tutors also will be recognized for their services to the student Lee, director of the program, said Monday.
Zelema Harris, the first director of the program, will be the keynote speaker at the program. Harris, currently the acting director of the Educational Opportunity Center in Kansas City, Mo., designed and directed the program, which developed out of graduate research work at KU. She was the director from August 1977 to August 1972.
The primary concern of the program, Lee said, is to provide academic support as well.
vantaged students. The program also provided counseling, career guidance and mentoring.
The program has from 70 to 110 tutors on its staff each academic year, Lee said. In addition, there are five staff members, most of them graduate students in counseling.
"ONE OF THE key elements for providing various kinds of academic assistance is to have it on an individual basis," he said.
For students to receive the services of the program, they must meet federal low-income guidelines. Educational and cultural needs also reasons why students go to the program.
The program will help almost any disadvantaged person, Lee said. About 70 percent to 80 percent of the 450 students in the program are minority students, he said. About 2 percent of the total are handicapped.
Although its number of students has almost doubled in the past three years, Lee said, the program is just scratching the surface of the number of students who need
"Admissions and financial aid programs have identified 6,500 students that could easily meet the basic criteria for admittance to SES," he said. "We don't have the kind of funds to take on all the students that meet the criteria."
LEE SAID THAT whenever they have had to turn away students, they usually tried to refer them to another program or agency on campus that could aid them.
Lee said the University supported the program because there was an obvious need
Although most of the program is financed through state funds, Lee said that the program has not been fully funded.
Initially, he said, the program provided a firm retention rate, that were based on student teaching.
The program that eventually became the current program was started by the Black Student Union and the Urban Action Council to develop programs that would meet black students' needs, including ones to aid in the retention rate of black college students and teachers.
The original program was called the BSU-Urbian scholars program and students were able to get social and academic counseling along with turbing services. In a report by Brenda Mazzola Vann, acting director of the office of minority affairs at the time the program was being implemented, the university is the unique heritage and cultural norms of black people as an asset in providing an atmosphere of 'amillarity as well as support services.'
Staff Photo by BILL PRAKES
Comic villain
Carol Honda, a member of the University of Hawai'i's Kabuki program, plays the role of Bannai during a performance of a scene from the 47 Simpson at Murray Hall yesterday. (Kayla A. Gurdon)
English dept. awards students and teachers
The English department at the University of Kansas has awarded cash prizes totaling $3,025 to outstanding students and teachers. The awards were presented at the departments annual honors and awards banquet last week.
First place awards for the James B.
Kennedy scholarship for Excellence in the
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Study of Literature went to Christopher Ryan, Lecompton senior, and Theresa Towner, Salina junior. Second place awards went to Lisa Chismire, Middletown, Ohio, senior, and Brian Foley, Oklahoma City junior.
Four students were given an Edwin M. Hopkins scholarship for Excellence in the Middle School. The student went to Bunch, Lawrence graduate school; James P. Davis, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student; Gwen Laddi. Oklahoma City graduate; Linda Pacchini McKinney. graduate graduate student.
The Kenneth Rockwell Scholarship for Excellence in the Study of Literature went to Gene Edward Veith, Vinita, Okla., graduate student.
SELDEN LINCOLN Whitecoth Fellowships for Achievement in Scholarship and Teaching went to Bunch; Davis; Amy Devitt, Richardson, Texas, graduate student; Thomas Fish, Missouri Valley,awa; Kenneth Kruger, Kentucky, Sübrenburg, Germany, graduate student; and Alan Mistenin, Lawrence graduate student.
Carol V. Vanalkenburg, Lawrence Apthapha, Michael W. Hersh, Joseph K. Hess critical writing award. Second edition to Ann Ardis, Roanoke, Vir., senior, and third place was won by Maria Brink, Martha Crane.
Natalie Calderwood Critical Writing Awards were also presented. The winners were Foley, first place; Scott Bloch, Chatsworth, Calif., junior, second place; and Kathryn Naether, Lawrence senior, third place.
THEREA  JOHNSON, Lawrence graduate student, won a first place Edgar Wolfe Creative Writing Award. Other students have won awards in sophomore, second place; Thomas Russell, Shawne graduate student, third place; Kenneth Arnold, Lavette, Colo., graduate student, fourth place; and John Kessel, Park graduate student, honorable mention.
First place award for the Edna Osborne Whitchcombo Creative Writing Award went to Rebecca Brown, Hutchinson senior. Second place went to Charles F. Jones, Lawrence senior; third place to Pamela Keiley, Lawrence junior; fourth place to Jane Smith; fifth place and desirable mentions to James Mace Ward, Hutchinson freshman.
Brown also won first place with the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Contest. Russell came in second and Joel Cow, Lawrence graduate student was third.