Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Columbia Chronicle College Publications 1-19-1999 Columbia Chronicle (01/19/1999) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "Columbia Chronicle (01/19/1999)" (January 19, 1999). Columbia Chronicle, College Publications, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle/439 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO Campusl3 Vitality Sports Underground Ani DiFranco End o f an Cafe re-opens goes "Up Up Up ... " 'Air-a' By Elizabeth Nendick couple of times when she Correspondenl was in a real bind. "It's not like I do it all The father of Michelle Matthews (not the time, but I was get­ her real name) died twice in two semes­ ting a really bad grade in ters. this one class and I Losing a battle against colon cancer, he couldn't get a 'C,' so I passed away in 1995. Matthews missed cheated,'' Cummins said. weeks of class at the College of DuPage "Me and tliree other in Glen Ellyn while dealing with her grief, girls thought up this plan but was excused from assignments and to all sit near each other given extended deadlines for term papers and put out tests at the and tests. edge of our desks. Then Falling behind on class work a semes­ we'd cough or clear out ter later, Matthews remembered the spe­ our throats when we treatment she received before and couldn't see or needed her new teachers she had to attend more time. I felt bad, but her father's funeral. Again she was I got an 'A.' We all did." excused from assignments and given Academic dishonesty extended deadlines. comes in various forms. The many cases of tragedy in The tried and true meth­ Matthews' family that followed were all ods include copying fabrications -little white lies to get a big another student's paper, fat 'A.' Matthews confessed that lying cri b sheets and plagiariz­ about her dad was only the beginning, and ing. since transferring to Bethel College, a New technology is Christian school in Minnesota, the excus­ beginning to alter the es have been recycled. cheating landscape: "My grandfather has died a couple using the computer spell­ times," she admitted. "Right now, I'm checker during a spelling supposed to have mono for one of my test, e-mailing the classes. For another, my uncle just died answers to oneself to and I' m going home for his funeral." pick up on the classroom pulled up the skirt and punched away. something. I'm assuming that it's Matthews laughed with the memories computer, and utilizing the Internet to Another factor of academic dishonesty resolved at the classroom level, or maybe of her scheming, daring to be proud of the find already finished research papers. The is the way teachers deal with students in a department chair's offi ce." resulting grade. Internet offers dozens of sites like who arc caught. In Columbia's survey. So what precautions are Columbia's Her dishonesty is not unusual, howev­ www.schoolsucks.com which provide on! y one student was ever reprimanded. teachers taking to reduce the lure of er, national studies show that over 75 per- papers of all kinds to the desperate. The student received a failing grade for cheating? of students admitted to having cheat­ The study of 150 Columbia students the semester. Savvy teachers are learning that if at least once in college. uncovered some rather creative methods Columbia's Dean of Students, Dr. Jean they want original work, assignments At Columbia, those numbers are lower, as well. One student, who admitted to Lightfoot-Lee, has dealt with just two must be closely tied to course goals. but academic di shonesty is still prevalent. waking up unprepared for a calculus instances of cheating in her five-year Dean of Liberal Arts, Les Van Maner, · ng to a study of 150 students, exam, deviously snuck a calculator into tenure. feels it is the responsibility of the profes­ ightly less than half admitted to cheat­ her exam. The student taped a scient ific "I've found that the number of cases sors themselves. ing. calculator to her right thigh and concealed that would get to an administrator like Ann Cummins, 21, a senior in fashion it with a black skirt. When trouble arose me is very small ," Lee said. "That's not See Cheaters, page 4 admitted to cheating, but only a during the exam, she slowly and slyly to students haven't actual done Scientific freedom hard to come by, even in U.S. By Bruno Vand erVelde However, getting to Havana, accord­ recently legalized Christmas there; it had been outl awed Campus Editor ing to Lerman, was nearly as irrpsolv­ fo r decades so it wouldn' t interfere with the economically able as the topics she went there to dis­ vital sugar harvest. The Pope's visit last year also helped When the millennium is finally distilled at the cuss in the fi rst place. Cuba emerge from the shadow that its democratic neigh­ end of this year, everyone from historians to morn­ When Woodrow Wi lson uttered the bor has thrown over it. ing news show hosts (including historians on clause about "[making] the world safe And quite a shadow it is. Direct mail service, ai rnights, morning news shows) will be talking about the for democracy," he likely didn't foresee and food sales from America to Cuba have been banned, events, changes, and trends that occurred during that the phrase would become the most and as the number of Cubans seeking asylum in the U.S. this epoch that befell mankind on its path to 2000. maniJ;lul ated concept since "Social continues to climb, Washington has cfecidcd to relax some Culture, fa shion, and laws will likely be the Darwmism." restrictions against the island. most discussed, while mention of scientific Undoubtedly, the United States has a Cash transfers from Cuban-Americans to their families advancements will likely fall behind in popular ruthless penchant for imposing democ­ back home have been expanded, and expansion of nights coverage. ratic change on its developing peers and and mail service to Cuba are in the works. "These steps Science is the one true universality- it tran­ has gone to great lengths to try to do it. are designed to help the Cuban people without strength­ scends time, space, and language barriers, and in During and since the Cold War, the ening the Cuban government," said President Clinton two doing so, effectively validates human existence. United States has removed economic weeks ago. "Science doesn' t have any border," confirmed Dr. llil!liilliilll!iiliii!61ijliil!lil sanctions from several countries­ Though obviously the U.S. is a long way off from Zafra Lerman, head of Columbia's Science China, Vietnam, and the former Soviet reestablishing proper ties with Cuba, many contend that Insti tute. Union, for example- while initiating it's a good stan. - Ideally, this would be true, but even the most powerful sanctions against others, like Iraq and Libya. Usually, the It's too little, too late, opines Lerman. "It 's not country m the world can be stubborn when it comes to official explanations for these sanctions suggest a typical enough,'' she said, referring to the recent loosening of the allowing its scientific citizens free, peaceable assembly American mix of reason and hypocrisy. embargo. abroad. One elderly member of this list, though, has chugged "And Americans are the losers," she said, noting that Lerman, who is also the Chairwoman of the along resolutely, with rarely more than a quiet grumole. tourism in the country is nourishing. "The whole world is Committee on Human Rights and Scientific Freedont of Unfailing and uncaringly defiant, Cuba has continually [in Cuba] except for the Americans." the American Chemical Society, recently returned from a thumbed its nose at the U.S., whose sanctions against tt But Cuba doesn't j ust have tourism to promote. trip to Cuba. There, she and colleagues from around the for the last 40 years have made Castro famous and kept Despite the shaky financial situation there, the education world gathered for lectures on pressing environmental the nearby island country a regular suitor of poverty. level is "very high," Lerman said. Through scientific issues and how the international scientific community is As every Communist and Socialist nation has seen dealing with them. change within the past half-century, so has Cuba. Castro See Lerman, page 4 ,...... COLUMBIA CHRONICLE JANUARY 19. 1999) ·• ' .. .,··· ' • ! t' \ ll ).\ • ~ 0 : :0 0, .. .1 r 0 of.. .. foa.s.t.... f .o.o.d? Fly Home. Mom's sure to make your favorite for dinner. ' \ COLLEGE HOTLINE 1.~ ~8 .8 .8 .~ . 4.1.1.~ ,2 F.L .Y .......... ............ .. • Minn./St. Paul from $59 LG ~ - ·• Dallas/Ft. Worth from $69 • Atlanta from $79 • Kansas City from $29 • Denver from $79 • Pittsburgh from $49 • Myrtle Beach from $99 * Restrictions apply. Prices include $2 per segment FET. 21 -day advance purchase required . Fares are non-refundable. Blackout dates apply. www. flyv anguard.com Seats are limited and may not be available on all flights.