Thursday, March 8, 1962
The Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
'Tap Method
Editor's Note: This is (he
last in a four-part series
dealing with student cheat
ing. Today's article looks at
methods of prevention in a
general review of the topic.
By TOM KOTOUC
Between 35 and 50 cases of
student cheating came to the
attention of University de
partment chairmen last se
mester, according to the
chairmen of these depart
ments. This figure does not include
the 60 cases detected in men's
physical education.
The greatest amount of
cheating was reported in
lower level courses, with lit
tle or no cheating in graduate
and professional schools.
Department chairmen ad
mitted that a considerable
amount of undetected cheat
ing had occurred in addition
to the cases reported, but
were reluctant to estimate the
amount.
Yet, at some Universities,
student cheating is virtually
non-existent. Why?
At Stanford University, a
student seeing another stu
dent cheating during an exam
Secretaries Meet
At Nebr. Center
The Eighth Annual Insti
tute for Secretaries was held
Saturday at the Nebraska Cen
ter for Continuing Education.
The institute, "Secretarial
Image Professional and Per
sonal," is planned to help
secretaries in their under
standing of their true value
to their organization and how
their actions influence what
others think of them and their
organization.
The institute is being spon
sored by the Cornhusker
Chapter of the National Sec
retaries Association and the
University College of Busi
ness Administration.
Miss Dorothy Stephan, sec
retary of the Nebraska State
Education Association and
president of the Cornhusker
Chapter of the National Sec
retaries Association, will also
speak at the Institute.
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TASSELS initiation banquet
will be held Tuesday, March
13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Pan
American of the Union. The
banquet will also honor the
old and new officers and the
outstanding active and pledge.
After initiation, the pledges
will entertain with a skit.
IRANIAN CLUB will meet
Sunday at 4 p.m. in 332 Stu
dent Union.
NEBRASKA I N T E R N A
TIONAL BOOK PROJECT
will meet at the Campus
Episcopalian Chapel, Satur
day, March 10 at 9 a.m.
Dental School
CAven $30,000
A $30,000 grant has been
made available to the Uni
versity's College of Dentistry
by the U.S. Public Health
Service.
Dr. Ralph Ireland, dean of
the college, said that the
funds, which are used for re
search, are Nebraska's share
of a yearly appropriation to
schools in the nation.
The dental school will use
the funds in three areas: (1)
To continue a part-time stu
dent fellowship program to en
courage research, (2) To aug
ment salaries of part-t i m e
research staff members, and
(3) For individual -or depart
mental research projects.
Now underawy are such pro.
jects as a continuing investiga
tion of cleft palate conditions,
a joint mechanical engineering-dental
study of the month,
and an anthropological-dental
study of twins.
Miller's Writings
Merit Publication
Dr. James Miller Jr., chair
man of the English depart
ment, has written a book on
Herman Melville and contri
buted an essay on Walt Whit
man for recent publication.
Dr. Miller's "A Reader's
Guide to Herman Melville,"
was published by Noonday
Press of New York.
A second publication, "Whit
man, A Collection of Critical
Essays," contains Dr. Mil
ler's essay "America's Epic,"
a discussion of Whitman's
"Leaves of Grass." This book
is one in a series on "20th
Century Views," and was pub
lished by Prentice-Hall, Inc
taps his pencil sharply on his
desk three times, informing
the students and instructor
that someone is cheating, said
J. P. Colbert, dean of Stu
dent Affairs.
The instructor goes to the
area of the room from which
Academic
Honesty
Code
the tapping came and
watches for the cheating stu
dent, as other s t n d e n ts,
alerted of the condition, are
more cautious to protect their
exams from the cheater.
So effective has this system
been at Standford that stu
dent attitude- now condemns
the cheater, instead of toler
ating him, Colbert said.
Student reaction at Nebras
ka to the "tap" system is
largely favorable. The ma
jority of tome 50 students
interviewed said that it is at
least worthy of being tried
here.
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Jim Lucas is the newly
elected president of Delion
Union Literary Society. He
will be assisted by Bill Kauf
man, vice-president and Lar
ry Brannigan, secretary-treasurer.
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Kappa Phi, the Methodist
girls' service sorority, recent
ly initiated nine University
coeds at a formal ceremony
in Cotner chapel.
The girls are: LaNeta Col
licott, LaDonna Cowell, Doret-
Health Institutes
Support Studies
Sol Garfield, professor of
medical psychology, and
Michael J. Carver, associate
professor of neurology and
psychiatry have each re
ceived continuation grants
from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH).
Garfield's $3,772 grant will
be used in the research proj
ect "Patient-Therapist Inter
actions and Continuation in
Psychotherapy".
Carver will use the grant
for continued research of the
"Effects of Phenothenate
Deficiency". A $13,000 continuation re
search grant was awarded to
Robert J. Ellingson, associate
professor of medical psychol
ogy at the College of Medi
cine in Omaha.
Ellingson will use the grant
on a project w:hich has been
under study for seven years:
"EEG'S and Cortical Evoked
Responses of Human In
fants." This is the fifth year
that NIH has supported the
project.
Corn Pest Study
Receives Grant
The University has received
a $5,000 grant from Geigy
Agricultural Chemicals of
Ardsley, N.Y., for continued
research on the control of
rootworms.
Corn rootworm control stud
ies are being conducted here
by Dr. Gerald T. Weekman,
assistant professor of ento
mology at Ag College.
The grant is to be used for
screening various chemicals
in the control of the corn
rootworms, wrhich caused se
rious damage to corn fields
in central Nebraska the past
two years. It is also to be
used for studies on the be
havior of organic phosphate
insecticides in the soil.
WHY DO SO MANY
SMALL BUSINESSES"
last year, 16,000 U.S firms
went out of business. But,
savs Commerce Secretary
luthe Hodges, many could
have pulled through if their owners
had known the ABC's of economics.
In "Speaking Out" in this week's
Post, lie gives the two main re
sons for business failure.Says most
Americans are "economic boobs."
And outlines a 3-part plan for cop
ing with economic problems.
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MARCH 10 i8U HOWON AlC
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Suggested to Prevent Cheating
One law student, however,
contended that the system is
a "good way to keep the in
structor confused."
All Interviewed agreed,
however, that unless such a
system is accepted by the
large majority of University
students it would not be suc
cessful. "A useful step in reducing
the amount of cheating would
be a clear statement from
the faculty setting forth the
value of intellectual honesty
as it applies to student work,
defining cheating and indi
cating the penalties for vio
lation."
This idea, shared by many
of the 25 professors inter
viewed, was expressed by Dr.
Alan P. Bates, professor of
sociology and a member of
an Arts and Sciences com
mittee which is developing a
code on academic honesty for
that college.
"Such a statement should
be stated in general enough
terms so that it could be ap
plied uniformly throughout
the campus," said Bates,
"and be incorporated into the
various University cata
logues." The Department of English
dppIcuicLL
ta Darling, Ann Lamphiear,
Ann Munnis, Kathleen Robert
Son, Leila Stevens, Judy Shel
don, and Linda Williams.
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New members of Orchesis,
University dance group, chos
en last Tuesday are Christy
Opland, Sandy Prawl, Guna
Bite, Helen Shearer, Joyce
Burns, Sally Jones and Cori
Cabela.
Two new members of Pre
Orchesis are Roxie Mann and
Julie Eakes. Pre-Orchesis
members work to earn a cer
tain number of points in or
der to be in Orchesis. They
do this by selling tickets to
Orchesis shows, working in
shows and attending extra re
hearsals. Esquenazi Works
On Castro's Talk
Recordings made of Fidel
Castro's month-old speech
following Cuba's ouster from
the Organization of American
States are being studied by
Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo
associate professor of ro
mance languages.
Prof. Esquenazi and four
students, using the facilities
of the Air Force ROTC radio
station, recorded a? hour and
a half of the four and one-half
hour speech directly from
Havana.
The la n g u a g e professor
plans to analyze the recording
with the help of personal
experiences of the Cuban stu
dents and to "Show the evil
way of Red propoganda as
well as how to combat such
speech."
Applications Ready
For Qualifying Test
University men who are
eligible to take the College
Qualification Test for the Se
lective Service System should
pick up their applications at
local board offices as soon as
possible'.
Applications should be filled
out. according to information
in the bulletin and mailed to:
Selective Service Examining
Section, Educational Testing
Service, P.O. Box 586, Prince
ton, New Jersey. Applications
must be posted btfore mid
night, March 27.
The tests will be given to
the local boards and used in
assessing deferment as a stu
dent. uumi-3 more i mi
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I includes a statement on pla
giarism in the manual given
to all freshman English stu
dents: "If a student's work clearly
reflects the organization,
phrasing, or wording of an
other's work, we consider the
student's paper plagiarized. A
plariarized paper is sufficient
cause for the student's being
dropped from freshman Eng
lish with a failing grade."
At UCLA, the Student Ju
rfiriarv Board nassed this di
rective on student dishonesty
last year:
"A student who steals
wrtrk or cheats in any way
is refusing the responsibility
that is his ana lortens nis
rights to remain a member
of that academic commu
nity ... A student found
guilty of cheating or plagiari
sm will be dismissed from
the University."
The UCLA resolution sug
gests that students be pun
ished, too. for failure to re
port instances of cheating.
University student Joel Lun
dak had these thoughts on
cheating during finals:
"Finals represent to good
students who have consistent
ly worked hard, an opportu
nity to review their subject
matter and evaluate each
part in relation to the whole
course. To all students, finals
are a chance to raise their
averages. This chance is lost
when an instructor is torcea
to discount the last examina
tion because a few or
many have obtained it De-
forehand.
"The general apathy of the
student bodv takes on an al
most comic aspect when we
see that, even after realizing
they had been sold fake ex
ams, no one apparently did
anything to "discourage" the
people who were peddling the
phonies from doing it again.
"The students of this cam
pus are exhibiting not only a
tragic moral laxity but a
somewhat stupid reluctance
to protect their own interests
when they permit the honor
system to be made c o m
pletely ineffectual. Action on
the cheating problem must
not only come from the ad
ministration and faculty
who can probably be most
effective by working pri
marily for greater security
in the future but from
elevated conscience and im
proved conduct on the part
of the student body."
Many University professors
do not report cheating cases
to the division of Student Af
fairs, because, as they say,
"Usually no action is taken
on such cases other than the
cheater receiving a f a i 1 1 n g
mark."
Thus, individual faculty
members have often de
veloped their own ways of
dealing with the cheater.
"We are here to serve the
students, not to catch them
cheating," said Theodore
Aakhus, professor of mechan
ical engineering and past
Student Tribunal member.
"I assume a student is hon
est," he said. "When I sus
pect him of cheating, I talk
over my suspicions with him
immediately, instead of
watching him and trying to
catch him in the act.
"When the evidence that a
student has been cheating on
an exam appears positive,
but the student claims that
he was not cheating, I re
quire him to retake the ex
am," Aakrus said. f
"Reducing the "number of
closed book exams would re
duce the number of students
who believe they must write
formulas and names on crib
sheets, gum wrappers, backs
of chairs and shirt cuffs to
remember fact-,' he added.
Four common excuses are
used to justify most cases
of dishonesty, from embezzle
ment to classroom cheating,
according to a study made
Capt. Dnsenberry
Leaves Air Force
Capt. Xeal Dusenberry, as
sistant professor of air sci
ence, is retiring from the
Air Force after 21 years of
service.
Captain Dusenberry began
his service career in 19 41
when he was a junior in high
school. He served with the
British Commandos during
World War II, and distin
guished himself in North
Africa and Europe.
Captain Dusenberry was
captured in Italy and escaped
from prison camps three
times. He has been awarded
the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star.
Since the war he has earned
a college degree and intends
to complete his law studies
at the University.
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A good sword nowadays is hard to find and in olden times, too. 'Many a
feudal lord saw it pointless to joust with a faulty halberd, and for worthy steel
alone the Visigoths sacked Rome.
Today, centuries later, the search for stronger steels goes on. And among thosa
making most dramatic strides in advancing the state of the metallurgical art
are the research teams at Ford's Scientific Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan
In exploring the "world of microstructure," these scientists, using methods of
extreme sophistication, have been able to look at iron and steel on a near
atomic scale. They have discovered secrets of nature leading to new processing
techniques which yield steels of ultra-high strength unknown a decade ago.
The promise of such techniques seems limitless. As man develops the needs
and means to travel more swiftly on earth and over interplanetary reaches
wherever economy of weight and space is required strength of physical
materials will become paramount This is another example of how Ford is gaining
leadership through scientific research and engineering.
by an insurance company:
(1) Evervone else is doing
it; (2) It isn't hurting any
one; (3) They owe it to me;
(4) It's all right to be a little
dishonest.
"Public apathy," said the
study, runs through the en-
Excuses
'Justify'
Cheating
tire subject of dishonesty and
embezzlement.
Dr. Charles E. Miller, assist
ant professor of physical edu
cation, pointed out that the
cheating student often contin
ues his dishonest practices
into business life by forgery,
embezzlement and passing
"no fund" checks. i
"The cheater develops the
attitude that the world owes
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covers that rigors of business
life can be circumvented in
the way that exams were in
college.
Miller said, students cheat
to get a grade for athletic
eligibility, to make an initi
ation average, or to avoid
preparing for an exam.
"Our abstract value of hon
esty has been diluted and
whittled down in almost every
area of society, except in the
intellectual community where
men emphasize the search
for the truth," said Bates.
"One unforgivable sin for
a person in the professions
is to be caught in an act of
dishonesty because the pun
ishment is ostracism."
"If thieves broke Into my
neighbor's house on the east
one night and into my neigh
bor's house on the west the
next night, no doubt I would
be concerned and call the po
lice," said Colbert.
"Yet what is cheating," he
asked, "but the stealing of
honest work."
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