Honesty Panelists Present Final Report on Cheating at ND
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Reagan leprechaun - page 3 VOL.XX NO. 114 TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Honesty panelists present final report on cheating at ND By CLIFF STEVENS The report section on the honor News Staff code also said academic honesty at Notre Dame is “not overwhelming The University Honesty Com or rampant” and “does not warrant mittee found “more cheating at a radical change, which may work Notre Dame than any of us wants,” no better than the present system. and recommended clearer and “well-publicized” policies regarding The first recommendation of academic dishonesty, more atten the “modified” policy on academic tion to factors which contribute to dishonesty in the report includes cheating, and promotion of “hones the preamble of the present policy ty as a value,” according to the on academic honesty in the faculty committee’s final report presented handbook. This preamble defines to the Academic Council yesterday. academic dishonesty as “presenting The report will now be submitted work not one’s own” and states taht to student government and the col “serious injustice” is done by such lege councils for discussion in dishonesty. preparation for a formal decision The second recommendation by the Academic Council, accor calls for clearer policies and ding to Director of Public Rela “primary responsibility for defin tions and Information Richard ing standards of honesty” to be Conklin. given to individual professors. The “We are desirous of getting as report states that professors should much feedback as we can- from clarify their policies on students, faculty, and anyone else,” “problematic” areas such as said Associate Provost Father Ed cooperative work on outside class ward Malloy, chairman of the assignments through oral and writ Honesty Committee. ten statements made at the beginn Recommending against in ing of courses. stituting an honor code, the report New faculty and first-year held that student reportage of in students should especially be in cidents of dishonesty is “essential” formed of policies regarding to ' an honor code while most academic dishonesty, states the students fail to report such in report. Sham-rocking Irish cidents. The third recommendation re Student government Academic quests a pledge of honesty to be pus for fireworks and fun while the others (shown Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students all Commissioner Earl Baker said this submitted by students with all became Irish yesterday as St. Patrick’s Day above) enjoyed off-campus celebrations at the failure was part of the reason for work. Notre Dame Apartments and corby Street as well festivities began early and continued throughout removing Notre Dame’s former as other locations. the day and night. Some partiers remained on cam honor code in the early 1970s. see CHEAT, page 4 OPEC: No agreement on strategy Student evaluations Associated Press would be acceptance by Saudi minister of Venezuela and presi Arabia of cuts in its production. dent of OPEC, said the break in the of rectors examined GENEVA - OPEC ministers, There were indications that Saudi meeting was needed to allow the By MIKE ANNAN LISA the survey forms ready by the unable to agree on a strategy for Arabia would agree to such cuts if group’s technical experts to reassess Staff Reporter time they would be needed, ac reversing a traumatic drop in oil it could be assured that other the outlook for oil demand. cording to Cafarelli. prices, suspended an emergency members of the Organization of The tabulated results of the The OPEC ministers met infor meeting yesterday for at least one Petroleum Exporting Countries The standardized rector survey went to both the Office mally in small groups until late last day as reports surfaced of new ef would abide by new limits. evaluation forms recently of Student Affairs and to the night, and Grisanti said the full forts to heal divisions within the 13- That would represent a shift for distributed to on-campus rectors themselves, Cafarelli conference would reconvene today. nation cartel. Saudi Arabia, which has been students is a modified and ex said. As ministers groped for a way to demanding cutbacks by producers The meeting’s uncertainty caused panded version of one used in Although these results will be stabilize markets, conference outside of OPEC as a condition for nervous trading in the spot and past years, according to Father considered in the process of sources said attempts were being scaling back its production. futures oil markets. On the New Francis Cafarelli, assistant vice deciding the renewal of rectors, made to reinstate production OPEC has been plagued in recent York Mercantile Exchange, the president for student services. Cafarelli said he stressed that quotas for OPEC members in years by its inability to enforce pro April-delivery price of West Texas The original form was the new survey “determines, in hopes that an oil glut would dry up duction quotas and official prices Intermediate, the main U.S. crude, developed about five years ago and of itself, nothing. It is to and prices would turn higher. set for its members. by a committee which included show a picture, and that picture, A key to such an agreement Arturo Hernandez Grisanti, oil see OPEC, page 4 rectors and used to reach stu like all pictures, has to be inter dents in the form of a preted properly.” mimeographed sheet on which The results are one issue of students marked their ratings, discussions which are taking Prison takeover ends peacefully place now between the Office of Cafarelli said. Associated I'M* Department of Correction favors ed sharpened broomsticks to take He said the switch to the new Student Affairs and individual single celling on Death Row. hostage a corrections officer and format was planned in the 1983- rectors, Cafareeli said. He said MICHIGAN CITY, Infit - Ani The uprising was sparked in part two counselors about 9:30 a.m. 84 school year as a measure to that the rector’s self-evaluation mates housed on Death Row at the by the practice of placing two in yesterday CST, Neary said. help reach more students. At and other information about the Indiana State Prison have agreed to mates in each of the unit’s cells. A prison employee was released that time, the survey was given hall also would be discussed at release all hostages and give up all One of the three hostages taken four hours later, after the inmates to a random sample of roughly these meetings. weapons," the statement said. in the incident yesterday morning were given cigarettes, milk and iced 10 percent of the on-campus Although some areas of was released after two of the in tea, and allowed a 10-minute inter population; this year, every stu evaluation on the form may be The inmates involved in the mates were interviewed by a view with a reporter from the dent was able to receive one, he considered more important than hostage seizure, thought to number newspaper reporter, and a second LaPorte Herald-Argus, a said. The reason for this, and an others, Cafarelli would not about 14, must face a prison con reporter met twice with leaders of newspaper located about 10 miles obvious advantage, is the in discuss what these areas are duct board and could be disciplined the uprising, who said they wanted from the prison, Neary said. creased ease of tabulation, he because, he said, the survey is if found in violation of prison to negociate their demands for im Edward Jones, 39, of Westville, the said. not intended to be trying to send rules, according to the agreement. proved conditions through the news administrator of the death row Last year, no form at all was a specific message to rectors, it The agreement noted that the media. unit, was in good condition after he distributed. This was because of is trying to show them one view General Assembly is reviewing a The incident began when Donald the transition between formats.- of how well they are doing their master plan for improving state Wallace Jr., 28, of Evansville and The office was unable to have job. prison conditions and that the Russell Boyd, 27, of Clarksville us- see TAKEOVER, page 4 The Observer Tuesday, March 18, 1986 - page 2 In Brief Saint Mary’s quick response averted worsening of tragedy Ferdinand Marcos, former Philippines president, lost a bid yesterday to prevent his financial records from being turned over to the new Manilla government when a federal judge refused to intervene in the case. The new administration of President Corazon The true test of an individual or of an institution Aquino is eager to see the records as it attempts to piece together the often does not come until that person or institution story of what is said to be an estimated wealth of $5 billion, mostl faces a crisis situation. The recent discovery of a Theresa A. amassed during a presidency when his salary was about $5,000. stillborn baby found at Saint Mary’s, in a LeMans hall trash can, has shown the character of the Col Guairino lege. A Statue of a black stable boy in front of the Sigma Most larger colleges or universities might consider Saint Mary’s Executive Editor Phi Epsilon fraternity house at the University of Florida prompted such a situation a tragedy, but not one that would af complaints to the student affairs office from students, staff and fect the entire community. faculty. Althought the chapter president defended the statue as At a small institution such as Saint Mary’s, traditional, and not indicative of any racial bias, he said it elicits however, such an incident did affect the entire com mixed feelings from the fraternity members.