Teacher Says Cheating on the Rise
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THE DAILY CAMPUS Thursday, February 14, 1991 The independent newspaper serving the SMU community since 19.15 Vol. 70 No. 80 Loving Teacher says spirit fills air m cheating Students celebrate Valentine's Day on the rise 15y 1JIIU,11» IIACKNHY conservative job-oriented student By ROBIN S. DUNLAP ('onlrihithir to 'llio Daily Campus body. They are more concerned Contributor to The Daily Campus about grades," Tcdford said. David Mellaril, professor of Valentine's Day will be cele He said that cheating was just communications, said he thinks brated deep in the heart of as bad, if not worse, during the the percentage of cheating at SMU. I9f)t)s and the early 'fiOs. There this univeristy lias definitely The Arts and Crafts Center is was a drop in cheating during gone up since he began leaching having a Valentine's the late 'tiOs, but in the past 10 here in 197-1. Extravaganza in the Hughes- to If, years, cheating has gone up Trigg Atrium where people will As a result, McIIarn said that d ramatically. be able to create valentine cards he is selling his old tests to Mcllam said that the students and put photos of themselves Kinko's print shop to he sold to must, do something about the taken by a professional photog students. increased cheating. rapher inside. Mcllum said Wednesday he "It. cheapens everything here, Jerry Ward, an employee at made the decision after students Kven though it's an expensive the Arts and Crafts center, said complained that fraternity and school, it's a cheap school," In- they will also give away a box of sorority test flics allow greeks to said. cheat, which creates a disadvan chocolates to the winner of a The initiative must come from tage for non-greeks. drawing they will hold. the students not from the facul Pottery making, floor-loom lie said, however, that he ty. It is the resposibitit.y of mIu weaving, paper marbelizing, does not believe providing his den t s to come up with a new rnat cutting and stained glass test files will help students in honor code, he said demonstrations will any dramatic way because he also be "I think we need an honor code always changes his tests. held, he said. with some teeth in it, where the The Mane Course will be He cited the October 19K9 students are responsible, where serving a special "dinner for issue of U. The. Nationul Co/Ay,'*- students turn other students in," two" from 5 to 8 p.m. where cou Nfiuspapcr as proof of this trend Mcllam said. ples can eat New York strip nationwide. Sandi Osters, judicial coordi steaks, baked potatoes, broccoli The newspaper said that in nator, said chealing is the most, or corn, a dinner roll and 19b(), 20.G percent of college abused yet. most u n reported dessert, said Mane Course first-year students admitted to crime at SMU and agreed that Manager Tony Peters. cheating, and in 19H8 the figure the initiative to stop cheating But if the Mane Course does went up to 3G.G percent. must come from t he student;i. not sound appealing, students William Ted ford, professor of Tcdford said that, it is not can wander over to the dining psychology, said that when you rational not. to report cheating halls where a special Valentine's look at the pattern of students "A student who observes dinner will be served. cheating, you see a cyclic effect. cheating (without reporting it) in The menu includes sauteed "("'heating usually goes on the college is cutting his own throat.," breast of chicken with almonds, upswing when you get a more; he said. seafood crepes with Mornay sauce and carved round of beef „Y au jus and French chocolate * mousse and strawberry tarts. City still in turmoil > by .Jiiim-s |',|;ur If none of these activities Sophmores Shane Sooler and Marisa Kalubig spend a sunny Wednesday afternoon framed by a sound interesting, the Lambda valentine card. The cards were on sale at a crafts exhibition at 11ughes-Tri Atrium. over redistricting Chi Alpha fraternity might have one that does. Louis Avallone, By DANIELLE REESE ed from single-member district-, events chairman and vice presi Contributor tu The Daily Campus while three, including the may dent of the fraternity, has orga or, are elected cilywide. Judge Dallas City Council's 1 '1 - 1 nized an SMU philanthropy to Valentine mail delayed Buchmeyer said the citywide redistricting' plan is closer to benefit the I Have A Dream seats diluted minority voting By KIM RADTKE the worst time of the year for the Because it is busy at the win what a democratic society is Foundation-Dallas and the strengLh. Staff Writer oflltu Daily Campus National Dyslexia Referral post office," Baker said. dows, Baker does not get, to put reaching for: one person, one He ordered eleel iolis for May Center. "Christmas is no problem up letters, magazines and pack vote, said Irving Baker, associ '1 under a M-l system, in which Rain, sleet or snow can't stop because the kids go home." ages until the end of the day, he ate professor of political science. 14 council members are elected the post office, but Valentine's The black tie event will be Baker said mail from the said. Any arrangement that will from district,-) and only the may Day just might. held Saturday night at the coasts usually takes three days Baker said 10,000 to 12,000 reduce racial tensions will even or is elected at large. Grand Kempinski Hotel. The Digby Baker, the special dis to reach the downtown Dallas letters per day are usually deliv tually be advantageous to a The city on Monday filed a cost per couple is $50. A jazz tributor clerk for the SMU post post office, but now because of ered to the post office, but greater democracy, Baker said. notice of appeal of Buchmeyer's trio will play for the first half of office, said mail might be a day the holiday it will take four. because of Valentine's, packages In March 1990, U.S. District. decisions and an application for the evening, and an alternative late because of an abundance of In-state mail usually takes have increased by 50 percent Judge: Jerry Buchrneyer struck music group will play until the Valentine's packages and letters. two days, but now will take and anywhere from 20,000 to down the 8-.'j system, in which IMease see COUNCIL event ends at 2 a.m. "Every year Valentine's Day is three, he said. 25,000 letters art* delivered. fright council members are elect page 2. Soviet sees benefits in U.S. destroys 'bomb shelter' student exchange program Firefighters extinguish By COQUIASP1AZU Karelin said in an interview a small blaze in Civilians Contributor to The Daily Campus Tuesday that SMU's Russian McElvaney Hall ... department was the first to initi killed in Iraq Vitalii Karelin, the representa ate talks to establish an exchange page 2. ASSOCIATED PRESS tive from Moscow State program. University, said SMU students can really benefit by studying in "They came to my office in The Oscar nominees ... DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — r iv'X- ' the Soviet Union. Moscow and asked. Now we are on page 5. Allied warplanes, in a pinpoint ;3v,i Negotiations to create a possible a good level and I hope we will bombing that sent shock waves student exchange between SMU sign a contract," said Karelin, who far beyond Iraq, destroyed an and Moscow State University will is a professor of chemistry and the Mustang basketball underground shelter in Baghdad take place today. dean of the Preparatory College at captures its second win on Wednesday. Officials there Moscow State University. said 500 civilians were killed. "It should be a really good profit on the road, beats A&M The university is the largest The United States called it a for American students to come and 68-62 ... military command center, not a spend time with very good teach Please see SOVIET bomb shelter. ers," he said. page 2. page 10. By nightfall, 14 hours after the pre-dawn attack, crews were l',t\ Wntlh still pulling charred bodies, some U.S. Navy F-14 lifts off from Ilie deck of tin? aircraft carrier I'SS of them children, from the Lettermen's Association collects John F. Kennedy above a row of A-7 Corsairs. demolished structure, an Associated Press correspondent civilians "in harm's way." the war." donations for alumnus' children reported from Baghdad. Iraqi authorities denied that The deadly Baghdad air 11ke By MARCYL. GRANT Clements graduated from edly revitalized the Lettermen's Distraught relatives crowded the any military personnel used the was among 2,800 sorties mount Contributor to The Daily Campus SMU in 1969 and played full Association through the death smoke-filled streets. underground structure. AP cor ed by Operation Desert Storm no back on the 1968 Bluebonnet penalty times," Johnston said. Iraq's health minister, Abdel- respondent Dilip Oanguly said Wednesday in favorably dear Almost $18,000 has been Bowl Championship team. He- Clements also coached little Salam Mohammed Saeed, a sign outside identified it as a skies. raised through an effort by the lettered in both football and league baseball in the Pafrk described the precision bombing bomb shelter and the site was U.S. ollu-ers t.uSd reporter.-; in Lettermen's Association to baseball at SMU. Cities and YMCA football to as "a well-planned crime." equipped with loudspeakers that Riyadh, the Saudi capital, lliat establish a Clements was involved in the community children.