Miami Hurricane, April 11, 1980

              Has Cheating Led To . . .
A Code Of Ethics By Faculty Senate?
By PETER S. HAMM
Assistant Naws Editor
The Faculty Senate is working out a proposal by the office of the provost to develop a new code of ethics for students and faculty. The current plan is "90 percent finished," according to Senate member Sharon Garman.
According to Garman, an academic adviser of the Academic Student Services office, “the ethics code is being worked out by the Student-Faculty Relations Committee” of the Faculty Senate.
The plan “involves a judicial system" that will investigate complaints of unethical behavior by students and faculty, such as turning in term papers that were
not written by the students, or cheating on tests.
Faculty Senate Chairman Dr. Eugene Clasby, Vice Chairman Dr. Mary Ann Fletcher, and Provost Clyde J Wingfield were all unavailable for comment
The committee is chaired by Dr. Ronald B. Neuman, associate professor of English, director of Freshman English, and the coordinator of the project. Garman is also a member of the committee.
Neuman was not available for comment.
"We had at one time an ethics code," Garman explained. but he believes that it has drifted out of usage. Garman said that it was Provost Clyde Wingfield who suggested the idea to the Senate.
Garman said that a large number of other universities have and adhere to such a code, and that the standards of those schools were examined in the develope-ment of a UM standard.
When the Hurricane was looking into University policy on students caught cheating. Dean of Student Personnel William Sandler mentioned the plans to revamp the existing honor and ethics code.
Sandler said that instances of cheating are currently handled by the individual school in which the person is enrolled. Students enrolled in Arts and Sciences, for example, are disciplined, not by the University, but by the school of Arts and Sciences if they are found guilty of cheating.
Sandler's office is in charge of the disciplinary panels that set decisions on students charged with non-academic offenses.
Cheating, however, is considered an academic offense and is not handled by the disciplinary hearing
panels.
He said, however, that the new "standards of ethics for faculty and students" would encompass the entire undergraduate student body.
Dr. Howard Pospesel, professsor of philosophy, said that the standards, which have not vet come before the Faculty Senate for a vote are now nearly complete, and in the hands of Neuman
Pospesel feels that cheating does go on at this school, but says that it is no worse than at other colleges. "I doubt that it is more or less prevalent than any other University."
When asked what his personal practice is regarding a student caught cheating, he said, “I ask the student to come in, and we discuss it. They usually confess I give them an "E” in that part of the course."
I've never failed a student for that reason, (cheating) but I wouldn’t fault someone who did." Pospesel said
The new system would take the burden of punishment away from the individual faculty memner and give the discretion to the judicial board.
The question of ethics in student term papers was recently brought out by an article in Tropic magazine of the Miami Herald In the feature story, the author claims that she wrote term papers for South Florida college students to use for class assignments.
IJM was among the schools at which students hud purchased term papers.
Abraham Lavendar, associate professor of sociolo-
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Search Pi *ocess Questioned
By JANE L. MARCUS
Editor -In-Chia*
Student leaders have expressed anger concerning the lack of student representation on the Presidential Search Committee. According to Patty Barker, Graduate Student Association (GSA) president, Stuart Patton, chairman of the Presidential Search Committee, said
that atuclcmtK would help in the
process in the second week of April.
"I was left with the impression that we would be interviewing ten to twelve candidates, not three." Barker said
Last August. Patton recommended the creation of an Advisory Committee to consist of the Undergraduate Student Body Government President, the GSA president, the Medical School Student Council, and the Student Bar Association.
The letter also said that "this advisory committee will be privileged to meet, interview, and exchange views and ideas with the seriously considered candidate or candidates which the Search and Selection C »mmittee will submit in either March or April to the Consultative Committee of the Faculty Council and the Deans’ Council."
"The letter in August was totalh inaccurate in the Presidental Search, since we had no participation,” said Ira Bodenstein, 1979/1980 president of the Student Bar Association.
Bodenstein said that not many deans or faculty members even know what’s happening in the search process. “They are letting people pick a president that don't really know what kind of president the University needs."
USBG President Paul Novack. who is supposed to be on the committee said that "it’s ridiculous that student opinion has been completely ignored The search committee must not realize how serious a mistake this is."
Novack. Barker, and Bodenstein said that at the Board of Trustee meetings, whenever the Presidential Search is discussed, they are asked to leave.
“It’s insulting to be asked to leave, along with all other students, when the trustees discuss possible nominees. I am too dedicated to UM to allow this treatment to go unchallenged." Novack said.
The student leaders are now in the process of trying to see Patton; however, he has not yet returned their call.
Bodenstein said Patrick Cesara-no, executive member and former chairman of the Board of Trustees, said that when the search committee comes up with the final candidates, then the students will be called
According to Bodenstein. Cesara-no also told him that it wasn’t proper to be involved in the screening stage until the final recommendations of the candidates. The search is only in the initial process, Cesara-no toid Bodenstein. but when it comes down to the final process, students will be involved,
: think the initial stage is done, si ce il v as narrowed down to •'	ver a month ago." Barker
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Miami Hurricane RON BR ADlE Y
Despite the torrential rains Monday evening, singer Bonnie Raitt performed before a packed audience in the Ibis Cafeteria. The concert was sponsored by the Student Entertainment Committee in association with Miller Beer. See Page 6 for a review of the concert.
Alcohol	Awareness At Rat
By CATHERINE HICKEY
Hurricane Staff Writer
Next Tuesday, beginning at 8 p.m.. students will become aware of alcohol in the Rathskeller, but not in the way that students usually become aware of alcohol in the Rathskeller.
That night. Rat manager Greg Kramer, along with UM’s Alcohol Awareness Task Force and Bacchus, will be presenting a special event which focuses on responsible drinking
The Task Force, a group composed of University student leaders and staff members and chaired by the Dean of Student Personnel William Sandler, and Bacchus (Boost alcohol consciousness concerning the health of University students) have cooperated on many programs in the past, but the Rathskeller Alcohol Awareness Night is a new, unusual concept.
“1 just thought that it would be a good idea for the Rathskeller to
have some alcohol education program to show that we are not just a beer hall, but that we are involved in educating the students as well," Kramer said.
"People wonder why the Rathskeller wants to get involved with something like this, but speaking for myself and the staff, we don't enjoy handling cleaning up after people who are really drunk," said Kramer.
During this evening, abstinence will not be encouraged or even mentioned. As a matter of fact, beer and wine will be served as usual Kramer said, "We’re not emphasizing an anti-alcohol attitude. We are emphasizing proper use, not abuse."
An officer from Dade County Public Safety will be present at this event, and lie will have a breathalyzer with him in order to demonstrate "to a person who has had a beer or two how the police determine the alcoholic content of their blood,” according to Kramer.
There will be a movie or two
which will present this serious subject in a humorous way rather than by showing examples of "gory car crashes and mutilated bodies" resulting from driving while drunk.
"This is not meant to frighten the students, and it is not going to be a lecture program." Kramer said. "We are not going to get up and say ‘Don’t do this, and don’t do that, and this is what happens when you get drunk.’ ”
This will be an informational and educational situation. Brochures and booklets will be available to students who want them, and they will be able to meet with members of Bacchus, the newly formed student group for increased alcohol amareness.
Bacchus, a national organization, was founded at the University of Florida and is endorsed by the National Football League.
The group is not anti-alcoholic but rather is concerned with promoting responsible use of alcohol.
ould ^ on Bu\ A Term Paper?
By AMY JACOVES
Assittant N#wvs Editor
Much controversy has surrounded an article that appeared in last Sunday’s Tropic magazine of the The Miami Herald The article w as about a woman who wrote term papers for students
In response to the story, the Hurricane asked several students whether or not they would buy a term paper
Michelle Dubman, a freshman elementary education major, said sin would not buy a trrm paper under any circumstances. She feels that a grade is like a reward that you have to earn for yourself
"It’s gratifying w hen you write il (a paper) for yourself The risk of getting caught on writing a term paper in college is not U'orth it." Dubman said
Roger Klein said he might buy a term paper only if he were in a desperate situation
“If it was due in two days and I had nothing to hand in, i would consider it, but probably not in all reality. I would rather get my own grade, not someone else’s work I’m not learning anything if I hand in someone else’s thoughts,” Klein, a freshman communications major, said.
Creative writing major Richard Morris felt the same way.
“I just as soon do the w'ork myself. I don’t want to turn in someone else’s work with my name on it. I want it to be by me." Morris said.
One student looked at things from a totally different perspective.
“I used to write them (term papers) and sell them. This was up in my college in New Jersey, and at that time I was free and had a lot of time to write. I write very well, so I wouldn't need someone to W'rite for me." said the first-year law student
He said that he would write the papers for friends of his. Sometimes he would do it for free, he said, sometimes in exchange for a bottle of wine — if they weren’t good friends — or sometimes in exchange for an ounce of marijuana
He said that it was not a business but a “reciprocal favor." Many times he refused to write papers.
One time, the student said, he wrote a 38-page paper and charged the student $50.
He said he did not feel that paying someone to write a paper causes a student to lose out on an educa-
tion When he was in high school he had to write many term papers and noted that other people didn’t have that same opportunity. Many people for whom he wrote term paper* just didn’t know how to write one, he said
"When 1 would write them (term papers). I would teach them how to write it," the law student said
He felt that it is "deplorable" to turn in a student.
"When I do something for or with someone, there is a personal bond of loyalty. I would not turn that person in because it would not make me better person.” he said
Robin Aboff. a senior business major, said that she would not buy a term paper because she would be afraid of getting caught
"No. I don’t think it’s right (to buy a term paper), " said junior nursing major Elizabeth Komskis.
Senior Susan Beinhorn said that she would not buy a term paper because she would rather do it herself.
"I feel satisfaction out of what I do, not out of somebody else’s work. I feel you don’t learn anything (by having someone else do the story). I mean, what are you in college for if you have to get someone else to do it for you,” Beinhorn said
Steve Reid, a freshman, said that he would buy a paper only if he did not enjoy the course.
"I would if I didn’t appreciate the course. If it was a course in ray major. I definitely wouldn't (have someone else write a term paper),” Reid said
One sophomore, w'ho asked not to be identified, said that he would buy a paper only if he didn’t have the time to do one for himself.
"I would buy the paper for sure if I didn’t have the time to do it. If they don’t have the time to do it, why shouldn’t they be able to get that out of the way when they have a lot of other things to do." he said
A junior biology major said that she would be afraid of getting caught.
“You might get one (term paper) the teacher has already seen, and 1 personally don’t think it would be up to what I could do myself," she said.
Freshman Tamara Jones felt that “I’m perfectly capable of doing it (writing a paper). I can’t see paying someone else to do it when I can do it myself. I really don’t feel it’s right for someone else to do it and for you to get a grade."
New Hurricane Editor, Business Manager Chosen
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By LORI BARRIST
N«w> Editor
In the Hurricane elections held Wednesday, Ritchie Lucas and Andrew Furgatch were elected editor and business manager respectively, effective this summer.
Lucas, a 19-year-old communications major from Miami, has had much journalism experience working on many student publications. He worked for two years on the Hurricane as a staff writer, assistant editorials editor. editorials editor, and sports editor
Lucas is a Miller Beer campus representative, SDT sweetheart, secretary of Student Services, and has worked on Carni Gras aqd SOS
"It’s always been my dream to be editor of the Hurricane I’ve worked long and hard and learned from many talented people. I want to push the Hurricane as a marketable item so that more students will read it.
"I will strive to maintain the quality of the newspaper and to keep the students well-informed as they were thjs semester," Lucas said.
Furgatch. a 19-year-old finance major from New York City, has worked on the Hurricane this semester as a sales representative selling ads. He also was responsible for filling out run sheets, adjusting ads, and handling several house accounts
Furgatch is a member of the Pre-legal Society and the Karate Club and a 960 Complex governor
"I have put in a lot of hard work. I see how things have been run and how they could have been run - how much easier it is to do things better.
“I want to improve the prestige of the business manager’s position. I would like to build greater respect for this office in the eyes of our advertisers, our printer, and of course, most im-portantly, our readers.
"With Ritchie and I working together, we can bring this paper back to national acclaim." Furgatch said
Both the editor and business manager will receive free tuition and a $350 stipend for the fall semester Each will receive an approximately $500 stipend for their work on the 1980 Summer Mail-a-Wa^’ issue
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