University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 4, 1990
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College Assembly OKs new misconduct policy
By Carol B. Shinev
Kansan staff writer
The College Assembly approved a student academic misconduct policy yesterday that provides uniform guidelines for faculty and students to follow in misconduct cases.
"The essence of it is that we need to inform faculty of how they must proceed in attempting to administer sanctions when they believe academic misconduct has taken place," said James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences.
Robert Adams, associate dean and hearing officer for the college, said he had heard 160 cases involving academic misconduct during the past five years.
The College Assembly is the representative governing body of faculty and students for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The assembly meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the Auditorium in the Kansas Union. About 20 of the 600-member assembly attended the meeting yesterday.
"I think if there's any misadduct at all, then it's a problem." be. said.
Previously, departments winn-
the college followed various policies
and procedures when dealing with
academic misconduct. The college
must maintain university guidelines
but followed University Senate rules
and regulations.
Carothers said that the newly approved policy, based on Senate rules and regulations, provided more specific guidelines for dealing with academic misconduct cases.
The new policy states: "Academic integrity requires the honest performance of academic responsibilities by students. Academic responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the preparation of assignments, reports and term papers, the taking of examinations and a sincere and conscientious effort by students to abide by the policies set forth by instructors.
"Any subversion or compromise of academic integrity thus constitutes academic misconduct."
Examples of academic misconduct listed in the policy include: falsification, unauthorized assistance with, or plagiarism of, reports, term papers, research papers or other written documents; giving or receiving unauthorized aid on examinations; disruption of classes; and the offering of gratuities or favors in return for grades.
The academic misconduct policy approved by the College Assembly states that an instructor may charge a student with academic misconduct if the instructor determines that a student has violated academic integrity.
Action taken under policy
Admonition — an oral statement that a student's actions constitute academic misconduct
Seven sanctions from the provisions of Article II, Section 6 of the University Senate Rules and Regulations are listed:
- Warning — an oral or written statement that continuation or repetition of the actions may be more severe disciplinary sanction.
■ Censure — a written reprimand for actions which constitute academic misconduct.
Reduction of grade — The work that is a product of academic factory. Reduction of grade may include awarding an F in the course.
Disciplinary probation — Exclusion from participation in specified privileges or extracurricular activities did not to exceed one school year.
- Suspension — Exclusion from classes and other specified privileges or activities for a period not to exceed two years.
Expulsion Termination of student status indefinitely. The conditions of readmission, if any, shall be stated in the order of expulsion.
The policy also states procedures for implementing the sanctions, appealing decisions and misconduct in student files.
Carothers said he thought that academic misconduct was a substantial problem at the University of Kansas.
Carothers said it was important to have uniform guidelines for dealing with academic misconduct.
If a mistake is made in the process, the student could get away with the misconduct, he said.
"I think the more people get away with it, the more they are encouraged to continue it," Carothers said.
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A LOOK AT PROFESSOR CUDD'S POCKMARKED APOLOGIA FOR ABORTION
In the first a series of three lectures for the Western Civilization Program Lecture Series Spring 1990, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ann Cudd presents several "Arguments for Abortion Rights."
According to the March 20 University Daily Kansan, Prof. Cudd says women suffer "group harm" and are denied equal protection of the law when abortion on demand is not available. Despite defining "group harm" as something members of a group endure because of their membership in that group, she says nothing about the agonizing pain experienced by every baby subjected to the abortion procedure. Prof. Cudd indeed holds that employment discrimination, rape and "enforced pregnancy" are three examples of "group harm".
Prof. Cudd claims that "enforced pregnancy causes women to see themselves as less than moral adults because "Moral adults get to consent and decide on personal matters." She evidently doesn't understand that an individual's morality is determined by the quality, not the quantity of that individual's choices
In her second argument for abortion rights, Prof. Cudd says: "If it can be shown that the fetus is not a person with philosophical and political rights, then it would follow pretty immediately that women who are pregnant with fetuses could abort them." Instead of attempting to prove that the fetus is not such a person, Prof. Cudd blithely sails into her third and most stunning argument for abortion rights. In this argument Prof. Cudd claims that because each woman owns her own body, no one else has a right to invade that body even to save an unborn child's life. Prof. Cudd explains that as a result of the unborn child's using its mother's body to sustain its life, the "fetus has no legitimate claim on the mother's body."
Although the Supreme Court categorized the unborn child as a "potential life" when it legitimized abortion in 1973, Prof. Cudd admits in her third argument for abortion rights that the unborn baby is alive. Yet this Assistant Professor of Philosophy calls for the killing of this helpless little one at the very time it is most dependent upon its mother!
Prof. Cudd apparently doesn't realize that our Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment forbids every state from depriving "any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law," because each of us has, as the Declaration of Independence puts it, "certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life . . . (and) that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men . . ." Prof. Cudd has yet to understand that the unborn baby, in the words of the United Nations' Declaration of the Rights of a Child, "by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."
After reflecting on Prof. Cudd's pockmarked apologia for the indisputably savage abortion phenomenon, I agree with John Churton Collins who said: "Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
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