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Sir Obnoxious - page 5 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary ’s Senate passes Traffic signal resolution to be placed condemning along U.S. 31 By SHANNON OAKES parietal shift Staff Reporter By CHRIS BEDNARSKI A traffic signal w ill be installed at Senior Staff Reporter the intersection of U.S. 31 and Douglas Roads and yellow flashing A resolution that expressed the caution lights w ill be attached to Student Senate’s dissaproval w ith an pedestrian signs along this same Office of Student Affairs directive road as the result of a letter sent to was passed by the senate last night. the Indiana Road Department. Senator Chris Abood informed the The letter, w ritte n by Saint Mary’s senate of a directive that prohibits Director of Security Richard social gatherings for the week begin Chlebek, expressed concern for the ning Friday Dec 13, and changes safety of the students who cross the parietals, which usually begin at 2 intersection of U.S. 31 and the col a.m., to m idnight on that Friday and lege entrance. Saturday. “They (Indiana) have completed The resolution states, “ The Stu their investigation and analysis of dent Senate strongly disagrees w ith U.S. 31. My requests were timely the restrictions on parietals and so ones which enabled them to take cial gatherings during the weekend video analysis of the vehicular flow of December 13th issued by the at U.S. 31," Chlebek said. Office of Student Affairs.” h f P h o to The LaPorte office recommended “The types of regulations would that an autom atic traffic signal be in be better left to the Hall Council and The joys o f winter stalled at the intersection of U.S. 31 Hall Staff of individual dormitories because of the heavy traffic at the We don’t believe restricting the These Utah residents use a team e ffo rt to snow was reported in many valley locations, and north entrance o f Saint Mary’s. time in which parietals ends, in par overcome the snow that buried northern Utah and more than three feet fe ll in some mountain loca ticular on the evening of Friday the southern Idaho on Sunday. Two feet or more of tions. see SIGNAL, page 4 13th, w ill have a significant effect on those studying three days before semester exams.” A copy of the resolution will be Academic honesty survey given to students sent to Father David Tyson, vice president for student affairs By LAURA S. GRONEK "The surveys are an attempt to stealing notebooks, etc.) as well as issue of academic dishonesty and The senate also began the Staff Reporter determine the nature and extent of conditions which they believe con present their findings and proposals groundwork for a committee that academic dishonesty on campus,” tribute to academic dishonesty, for policy change to the Academic will restructure student govern An Academic Honesty Survey was said Professor David Ricchiute, as such as large classrooms or poorly Council meeting in April. ment. Student Body Vice President distributed Thursday to on campus sociate professor of accountancy proctored exams. “We wanted every student to Duane Lawrence began the discus students by the newly formed and member of the committee. The survey went on to solicit have input in the survey,” said Ric sion by suggesting the committtee Honesty Committee to determine Questions in the one page survey opinion on the current procedure chiute. For this reason, 5,000 sur consist of no more than five people. whether or not students view cheat asked students to identify them for handling academic dishonesty, veys were distributed on campus “The bigger the committee the ing as a serious problem at Notre selves by class and by college of whereby students are reported to through each hall’s academic com harder it will be to get anything Dame. study. Earl Baker, a senior engineer the departmental honesty commit missioner, who collected the com done,” said Lawrence. He suggested ing major and student member of tee and then to the dean o f their c o l pleted forms yesterday. that if anyone other than the five on The committee, composed of five the Honesty Committee, anticipates lege. the com m ittee wished to contribute faculty and four student members, this information to show a “strong “What’s important is to get the “There are always complaints to restructuring they be allowed to recently was approved by the correlation existing between the results in before finals,” said Ric about a lack of student input,” said advise the committee. Academic Council to evaluate college a student is in and the degree chiute. “We’d like to be able to Earl Baker, a senior engineering K.C. Culum, district two senator, academic honesty on campus of cheating perceived.” compile the information over major and student member of the said he thinks tim e is running out for through dialogue with faculty and Subsequent questions asked stuChristmas Break.” If found to be a committee. “ Here’s a great chance students, and through a look at the dents to indicate the prevalence of significant problem, the committee for students to say where the see S E N A TE , page 4 honor codes of other schools. different types of cheating (copying, then w ill do further studies on the problem is, if there is one.” Faculty and administrators react to Accuracy in Academia Editor’s note: This is the second o f youth are getting in college by in however. Of ten students con “If I felt everything I said was “ I f you w ere to ask any faculty a two-part series examining Ac vestigating and exposing instances tacted earlier in the week, only being dismissed as lip service ... or member what their most curacy in Academia, a con in which students are being taught three of them had ever heard of the that I couldn’t speak my views, I cherished rig ht is, they’d say it’s servative group whose aim is to things that are seriously inaccurate organizaton. w o uld call the AIA,” he said. “ But I the right of academic freedom,” employ the help of students in or highly questionable,” according O f those three, only one student, think really the best spot to com said Flanagan, an assistant dean o f eliminating professors’ biases to the ALA’s first report. Jim Adrian, the chairman of Notre bat it (bias) is in the class itself.” the College of Arts and Letters. from college classrooms. Today’s But most Notre Dame profes Dame’s College Republicans, said The other two students who “ W hat academic freedom means story focuses on Notre Dame’s sors, administrators and students were familiar with the AIA both to most o f us is being free from the reaction to the organization. don’t see it that way. said they were opposed to the fear of an institution dictatingw hat “It (the ALA) is something that Accuracy in Academia group. you can and cannot say. By MARK PANKOWSKI cannot be a plus for good teaching One of those students, Bob Ar “But if you have a situation Assistant News Editor in this country because I think the mour, said the AIA “hasn’t any where you’re afraid of your own group is not itself balanced, ” said place” in classrooms. “The stu students than that fear is as much a Assistant Dean Catherine Mainwaring, an assistant professor dents have chosen to take the violation of academic freedom as Flanagan said the group “smacks of in the department of government. class, ” said Arm our, a ju n io r the more traditional fears,” she McCarthyism and censorship.” “ If the issue was really ope of ac economics major. said. Professor Scott Mainwaring said curacy, you would expect logically “ It (the class) is going to be sub One of the prmary concerns there is a “serious threat that this for it to be concerned with people ject to the professor’s opinion and expressed by professors and ad group will endanger freedom of who are biased on the left and he has the rig h t to go in there and ministrators is that faculty mem expression.” biased on the rig ht," he said. “ But teach the class,” he said, adding, bers might be reluctant to discuss Associate Provost Edward Mal that’s not the case.” “He’s obviously qualified if the their views in class out of fear of loy said the group “seems in In order to achieve its goal of University is going to pay him to do being targeted by the AIA. terested in squelching discussion.” eliminating bias from college clas he would contact the AIA with a that.” “ One o f the problems of the ALA, All are referring to one group: srooms, the AIA relies on students complaint. Despite the apparent lack of sup especially for the junior faculty Accuracy in Academia. to contact the organization with But even he would call the port from Notre Dame students, who don’t have tenure, is that it Founded in July of this year, the their complaints about professors. group only “if all other methods several professors and ad can stifle the way people express admittedly conservative organiza W hether the Washington based failed," said Adrian, who received a ministrators said the group themselves," Mainwaring said. tion is seeking to “improve the group w ill achieve its goal at Notre “standard form letter ” from the represents a threat to academic quality of instruction that our Dame remains in question, AIA and its first re p o rt freedom.

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