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Thursday, November 29, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Cheating at KU
Students, faculty should be aware of policies to enforce misconduct rules, reduce cheating
last week, a New Jersey survey revealed that 78 percent of college students
interviewed admitted to plagiarizing or cheating at one time or another during their undergraduate careers. The survey, conducted at Rutgers University, shines light on a rising national trend of academic misconduct. Although it was conducted at another campus, the survey's findings should concern students and faculty at the University of Kansas.
The survey's results pointed to the students' obsession with grade grubbing, blaming it for high levels of misconduct. Further, the survey found that grade-conscious students are inclined to cheat because they think making high grades in college is the only guarantee to a good job after graduation. A surprisingly high number of those surveyed, 45 percent, admitted to cheating occasionally. An additional 33 percent admitted to cheating on a regular basis.
These figures suggest that academic misconduct is a fact of life at many colleges and universities. It happens at KU too. To whatever extent cheating takes place here, steps can be taken to discourage such conduct.
If everyone knew the University's policy on academic misconduct, perhaps cheating and plagiarism would be fiction, not fact. Whether it goes unnoticed or is simply unreported, part of the problem may be attributed to students and instructors not knowing what University policy states or not
knowing how to respond to an act of misconduct.
The policy is clearly outlined in the University Student Handbook, the Timetable, and in literature available at the offices of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Student Life and the University Ombudsman. The policy defines what constitutes an act of misconduct, how integrity is enforced and what the rights are for anyone accused of misconduct. While the type of sanctions brought against a student vary, anyone accused of misconduct may file an appeal with the University Judicial Board.
When a student suspects an act of academic misconduct, the first step to take is to notify the teacher. From there, if necessary, the student should contact the department chairperson or the dean of the school overseeing the class.
Students and teachers should act when they know of an incident of academic wrongdoing. Too often, students affected by someone else's misconduct may not find it worth the trouble to file a complaint because the process is inconvenient and potentially damaging for the parties involved. It should not be that way.
If students here are anything like those at Rutgers, then students and faculty need to take the time to enforce the rules on those who break them.
Sally Gibbs for the editorial board
Gulf policy
Kansas politicians offer philosophies about gulf
As preparations continue leading toward a U.S. offensive strike against Iraq, Kansas' leaders in Washington offer differing philosophies about the military's role there.
U. S. Sen. Bob Dole supports President Bush's strategy but has suggested that he call Congress into a special session to garner support for an offensive option. "There are all kinds of reasons we can't let this man (Saddam) thumb his nose at the world," he said in a recent Kansas City Star article.
Dole is correct that Saddam must be forced from Kuwait, but his patience for economic sanctions may have worn thin too soon. He argues that U.S. citizens would continue to rally behind any military action deemed necessary if Saddam carried through further military threats.
U. S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum shies away from an offensive strike and a special session
A recent nationwide poll suggests otherwise. Most still consider Bush's actions in dealing with the gulf favorable. Sixty-nine percent of those questioned supported Bush. In September, 78 percent supported him. Some have grown queasy at study results that predict that 500 U.S. soldiers would die each day if U.S. forces began an offensive strike.
for Congress but thinks Bush's tactics should prevent war. She stresses that fighting most likely would last a long time and cost the United States dearly in lost lives.
Like Dole and Kassebaum, U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery follows Bush's logic that additional troops needed to be sent to Saudi Arabia to protect those already there. Unlike Dole, but similar to Kassebaum, he stridently wishes to avoid an offensive movement against Saddam.
"We should give the economic sanctions more time to work." Slattery said yesterday. "He (Saddam) is going to conclude that the profit isn't worth the grief."
Slattery's stance about a special session rests somewhere between those of Dole and Kassebaum. He said he would seek one so Congress could declare war and comply with the Constitution, but only after fighting began. Meanwhile, he said, Bush should be more candid with the nation and explain his goals.
Slattery raises a strong point. Whether they agree with them, second district Kansans know what their leaders think about the gulf crisis. The same cannot be said about Bush.
Rich Cornell for the editorial board
Other Voices
Japan has role in gulf
japan's participation in the multinational resistance to Saddam Hussein's aggression in the Persian Gulf has been more substantial than many people realize, even if some aspects of it were a bit slow in coming.
Tokyo was one of the first capitals to join the trade embargo against Iraq, and it is the only one that has actually delivered money to help refugees stranded in Jordan. The country's overall monetary hedge has reached $4 billion, a considerable sum if perhaps not a final appropriate figure.
But for many Americans, those contributions fall short, because Japan, until now, has not put any of them forward as well, as several other nations have.
Unfortunately for Japan, however, the gesture is not very powerful as an attempt to influence world opinion is far more difficult. Even if a few hundred defense forces
Now, the Japanese parliament is considering a bill to create a special "United Nations Cooperation Unit." The unit will aid military forces, to be sent to the Gulf.
We're pleased that the Japanese government is making the effort, even if opposition parties manage to block it. But it is only a very small beginning toward a truly responsible for a nation that has gained a great world and needs to start helping much more to maintain that world.
From the University of Tennessee Daily Reecho
troops are sent, other nations may not be greatly impressed.
KANSAN STAFF
KJERSTIN GABRIELSON
Holidays mean parking lot war
MARGARET TOWNSEND Business manager
MINDY MORRIS Retail sales manager
DEREK SCHMIDT
Editor
TOM EBLEN General manager, news adviser
JEANNE HINES Sales and marketing adviser
Editors
"Hey, I had my signal on. You were just sitting there." I rebutted
Managing editor
TOM ERLEN
Then it occurred to me that I had seen a burgundy car when I entered the aisle. But because the car did not have its turn signal on, I assumed it was just on some sort of parking lot tour. After all every veteran parking space hunter knows that the turn signal is the way to mark your prey, kind of the same way a dog marks its belongings by slobbering on them.
Anyway, I was not about to surrender my hard-earned space, so I struggled triumphantly into the mall to meet an artist. I walked and left a not-so-loved one behind.
I was offended by this slanderous and absolutely untrue statement. My mother has nothing to do with my bad manners.
Actually, this lady's mother is the one that did the poor job raising a child. After all, the Cadillac woman should have been told long ago that all is fair in love and parking space hunting.
After a few hours of shopping, I returned to my car hoping the psycho Cadillac woman had not done anything drastic. Fortunately my car was still intact, but on the windshield was a note which read: "You are a mother and your manners, all your mother did a poor job with your manners."
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Rich Bennett is an Overland Park junior majoring in journalism.
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My pight was becoming desperate. Suddenly, in the distance, I saw someone's brake lights flash. In a
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Home Remedies
"Do you think what you did was right?" the 45-year-old woman screamed from her burgundy Cadilac.
Apparently another space hunter felt I had stolen her bounty. I remained in my car for a couple minutes hoping the woman would go away. After it became obvious that she was not going to leave until she had her say, I decided to get out of my car and into the mall as quickly as possible. Before I even had the chance to shut my car door, the woman began yelling at me. Because this is a family column, I will not print everything she said, but here is the made-for-television account:
The holiday season is upon once again. A time for spreading joy and goodwill, giving gifts to loved ones and breaking several valuable limbs while racing out-of-control down a 90-degree mountain on two skinny slabs of wood.
As I pulled into the space, I felt a sense of accomplishment. The impossible had been achieved. However, that sensation of victory was quickly replicated by a different sensation; the out hunking sensation of a car horn.
Staff columnist
So finding a parking space can be an uphill climb in more ways than one. I was reminded just how difficult finding that elusive, parking space can be after a recent mall adventure. I sped through row after row, narrowly missing pedestrian after pedestrian, in search of a place to park my car. On several occasions, I followed shopper Bake back to take their vacated space. My hopes were repeatedly dashed, however, when the said shoppers did not leave their spaces. Instead they were only making a pit stop to ditch already purchased packages.
Of course, all the aforementioned takes a back seat to the true meaning of the holidays, which is undoubtedly finding a parking space at your local mall. After all, if you can't find a parking space, you can't buy gifts for your loved ones. And if your loved ones don't receive gifts, then joy and goodwill won't be spread. More important, you're liable to be tossed down a 90-degree mountain without the aid of those two wooden slabs.
Homelessness can be overcome
manner that would have made Mario Andretti proud, I raced my car to the row and turned on my blinker in order to indicate to the rest of the space hunters that this was my quarry.
How fortunate we are that the great social problems of the past were not seen by everyone as in inevitable aspects of life. How fortunate that some chose to dream. Susan B. Anthony did not accept the毗 of women in early 20th Century America. Though history had dictated the subordinate status of women before her, and though this condition was overwhelmingly accepted, Anthony believed that a world could exist in which women were treated with parity.
In a Nov. 14 column, Kathleen Stoll expressed her views on homelessness. She believes that most homeless people should not be looked on with pity or treated with compassion and that homelessness is not an issue worthy of media attention or social reform. Her opinions are certainly arguable but are just that — opinions — and as such are worthy of being voiced (no matter how ridiculous). Beyond that, however, I believe I must react to her column to urge people not to adopt her belief that the phenomenon of homelessness is a rule of society, an inescapable part of civilization, and not an obstacle to be overcome.
Rosa Parks did not accept segregation as an unavoidable consequence
Guest columnist
It is our duty to ensure that new human lives born within our borders are not hindered by a random chance that they will be born into object poverty, just as it is our duty to ensure that they are not hindered by the fact that they are born female or male. This is an important that we are not lulled into accepting poverty by those who have been treated fairly by the system.
The solution, elimination or lower class by elimination of the upper-upper class, may seem impossible to us now, but doubtless 100 years ago so did the ideas of women's suffrage, racial desegregation, and the virtual elimination of serious diseases.
For centuries, polio was accepted by all as a part of life, an unfortunate but inevitable wrinkle in the fabric of human existence. Dr Jonsa Salik, a professor at UCLA, could our tree humanity from the scourge of polio, and he proved it.
Jay Cooper is a Pittsburg senior major in biology, environmental studies and physics and is president of KU Students Against Hunger.
Jay
Cooper
It is no coincidence that so many of the social improvements of history have taken place within our century. Never before has there been a time so blessed by scientific knowledge and by the ability for widespread communication of thought. How fortunate, too, that we be able to live in a world rich in experience for solving problems that we have (we are fortunate that the pilgrims did not accept their lack of religious freedom).
of her society. Instead she defied the paradigm, and though not a socially powerful person, she acted out of her own side in a South free of racial segregation.
Poverty itself is probably the most
The eradication of poverty will require giant strikes on the governmental level and in individuals' imaginations.
newsworthy item of our time, because it lies at the roots of so many other problems and tragic events that plague our culture.
By Tom Michaud
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