VOL. 100, NO. 107
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Researchers peer over students' shoulders and find cheating is on the rise
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Academic fraud in as old as education itself, but studies indicate that about 20 percent to 30 percent are fraudulent, and the figure apparently is rising.
College administrators say the incidence of cheating is troubling but not inexplicable, given the "make it" mentality of the 1980s.
"One student who was caught couldn't
understand what he'd done that was so wrong," said Arthur Levine, chairman of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management.
"His argument amounted to: 'Everyone cheats, and as long as I do it well, I won't get caught and will succeed in society.'"
Some students copy their classmates' work, others plagiarize term papers or use crib sheets during exams, and still others take advantage of computer technology.
Forty-three percent of 5,000 professors nationwide responded "yes" when the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching asked: "Are today's undergraduates more willing to cheat in order to get good grades?"
Getting ahead any way you know how is sometimes perceived as part of playing the game of survival, college administrators said.
at television and see plenty of examples of dishonesty in society," said Timothy F. Brooks, a professor of students at the University of Alabama, who observes a disturbing reflection of our society."
A recent national survey by the American Council on Education and the Higher Education Foundation at the University of California, Los Angeles, offers a glimpse of the problem.
"Students read the newspaper and look
About 37 percent of first-year students
surveyed in Fall 1888 said they had cheated in their final year of high school, up from about 30 percent the previous year, according to "The American Freshman," an annual survey of about 200,000 students nationwide.
About 57 percent admitted they had copied another student's work, compared with about 52 percent in 1987, the study said.
Greyhound strike continues
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Greyhound bus drivers continued their strike yesterday on a plicket line outside of the Greyhound bus terminal, 1111 Troost Ave.
Contract talks broke off Friday between Greyhound Lines Inc. and the Amalacamo Council of Greyhound Local Unions.
"We'll be here 24 hours a day protecting this situation until Greyhound is ready to negotiate," said Dave Coen, above, a driver for Local Union 1498.
Coen said drivers who had crossed the picket line had been met with resentment from strikers.
"We shout at them when they pull in because they are part of the reason why this strike is happening." he said.
Coen said members of the picket line wore black arm bands in memory of the death of a California striker crushed Saturday by a bus driven by a substitute driver.
Tommie Kingston, left, a meat cutter for Nebraska Box Beef in Norfolk, Neb., has been waiting 24 hours in Kansas City for the next available bus.
Panama
U.S. soldiers may be part of drug ring
The network reported that officials were investigating Friday's grenade attack on a Panama City discourse that killed one U.S. soldier in connection with the breakup of the ring.
NEW YORK — A cocaine smug-
gling ring involving U.S. soldiers
and Colombian suppliers war-
dragers in Bogotá, Colombia.
CBS News reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
CBS, citing unidentified military sources, reported that at least seven Colombians and two U.S. soldiers were involved in connection with the ring.
One serviceman confessed that he recruited soldiers to smuggle cocaine aboard military flights to the United States, CBS reported. The soldiers were paid up to $10,000 each.
State will channel money to localities to fight drugs
Kansas cities and counties are eligible for part of $5.7 million in federal funds the state has available for drug enforcement and prosecution in fiscal 1980, the governor's office announced yesterday.
The cities and counties have until May 1 to apply for the grants, which are financed through the federal government's anti-drug program.
By Mark McHugh
"I'll probably be talking with the sheriff, the chief of police and James Denney (director of KU policies) for a joint request," Flory said. "We tried to talk this morning, but they were tied up with the murder investigation. I'm sure we'll be talking about it
The governor's office had received 30 grant requests by 4:45 p.m. yesterday, said Galen Davis, Gov. Mike Gonsal's special assistant on drug abuse.
Kansan staff writer
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said he did not know of any grant requests made yet by Lawrence or Douglas County.
Davis said a grant review panel would decide how much money would be allocated to grant applicants. The panel will comprise Kansas sheriffs, district attorneys and citizen activists.
Davis said the amounts requested must be matched by 25 percent community contributions that are required for incorporation and investigation program.
Local law enforcement officials have been investigating the death of Christopher Bread, a 19-year-old man who was found dead about 1 a.m. Friday.
in the next few days."
in fiscal 1989, Kansas received $1.3 million in federal grants through the program, Davis said. Thirty-nine of those grants were applied for the grants received them.
"That way if they have a request
for $100,000,
they come up with
it," Dayan says.
This is the fourth consecutive year the grants have been offered, Davis said. During that period, 82 of the 87
grants have been given to local communities. Five have gone to state agencies, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Flory said Douglas County applied for and received a grant last year for about $40,000.
He said the money was spent in training drug enforcement officials of the Douglas County Drug Enforcement Unit. It also was used to purchase special radio equipment needed in drug enforcement.
Davis said the federal government increased financing in Kansas because it had predicted that more communities would apply for anti-
He said he had seen an increase in drug-related arrests and indictments in the past year in Kansas.
"It's not easy to traffic drugs in Kansas, and if you do, there's a great chance you're going to get arrested and prosecuted," he said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Retirement plan would raise taxes on student wages
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
If the Bush administration has its way, student employees' paychecks next fall could be reduced by almost 8 percent.
The Bush proposal would affect about 4 million employees of state and local governments who do not participate in public-employee retirement plans, according to a report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The employees would have to pay a 6.2 percent Social Security retirement tax and 1.45 percent Medicare tax.
The University of Kansas employs about 4,200 student workers, who would be affected by the taxes.
Since 1939, a special exemption for public universities has kept student workers from paying the tax.
If the proposal is passed, students' take-home pay would be reduced by 7.65 percent, and colleges, as employ-ment match the taxes beginning Oct. 1.
Lindy Eakin, KU budget director,
estimated a $2 million price tag for
the University and student employees.
Students would lose $1 million from their navychecks. Eakin said.
He said KU would have to ask the Legislature for $1 million to match the students' taxes. About $600,000 would be needed for state-financed jobs and another $400,000 in restricted use finances for incomegenerating KU programs like student health or recreation.
According to the report, the money generated by the proposal would provide retirement income protection to those who do not have access benefits it also would provide Medicare coverage those who normally are ineligible and would eliminate the drain on the Medicare trust fund.
Julie Cooper, coordinator of student employment, said students were not used to having that money taken out.
"Most of them work for so little, and they need it so much," she said.
Students already will suffer because employers will have to cut back hours to accommodate the deadline because that begins April 11. Cooper said.
"It could cut back on how we canuld shape out of how muchwe'dbought in costs"
Elisabeth Casagrande, Lawrence sophomore, said she needed every penny she made working at Watson Library's circulation desk to go to England next year for a study abroad program.
"I just think there's many other aspects of society to take the money from other than the people who are under 21 and who are working because they need the money," she said.
Gwyn Blackburn, Arvada, Colo., graduate student, said the reduction of about $15 in her paycheck would affect her because of former president Reagan and President Bush's increasing cutbacks in student aid.
"That definitely would hurt my salary because I don't make enough as it is," she said. "It's supposed to be expensive." What else are they going to do next?"
However, Isabel Nogues, Roeland Park junior, said the future of the Social Security program was grim and bleak, even if that meant raising taxes.
"We really don't get that much taken out anyway, so it's not really going to affect us that much," she said
But Nogues said the reduction would hurt students who depended heavily on wages for housing or tuition.
Reformers prevail in Soviet elections
Yeltsin will seek presidency of republic
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Candidates who want faster reform won elections across the nation's Slavic heartland, and Boris N. Yeltsin easily gained a legislative seat in the Russian republic and returned official returns indicated yesterday.
Yeltsin has said he will seek the presidency of the republic, which traditionally means a place on the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. That could return the Communist maverick to the membership he lost in February 1988 for advocating speedier change.
Leaders of popular movements in the Ukraine and Byelorussia, an outspoken television commentator in Leningrad and a defiant editor in Moscow also appeared to have won in Sturzynski's local and republic elections.
Most of the 1,800 contests for seats in the legislatures of the three republics remained undecided, with no candidate getting the required majority. State TV said less than 15 were resolved in the Russian republic.
Activists said strong showings in this round nearly guaranteed victories in runoff elections for candidates who wanted to step up the pace of reforms begun by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The runoffs are expected in two weeks.
Ukraine party chief Vladimir A. Ivashko, considered a moderate protege of Gorbachev, qualified for a
runoff against an opponent backed by the Narodny Rukh pro-democracy group. Vitaly I. Vorotnikov, president of the Russian republic, defeated a lone opponent in the city of Krasnodar, winning 71.3 percent of the votes cast.
Both are members of the Politburo. Narodny Rukh members said the movement's leader, poet Ivan Drach, was elected in the first round along with several other prominent activists.
Zyanon Paznyk, leader of the Byelorussian People's Front, got 69 percent of the vote in his Minsk district, said spokesman Victor Ivashkevich. He said activist candidates appeared to have carried seats from the opposition including Byelorussian party chief Yefrem Sokolov, won rural districts.
In Leningrad, Bella Kurkova, controversial commentator of the television program "Fifth Wheel," appeared to be the only first-round winner, said IMA Press, an official youth news agency.
"Fifth Wheel" is a public affairs program that includes long segments about politics and social problems such as crime.
Despite Leningrad's reputation as a conservative bastion, pro-democracy candidates dominated the elections, said Yelena Vilkinskaya, editor of IMA Press. She said only two of about 150 candidates supported by the ultra-right nationalist group Pamayt survived the first round.
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