Page Two OPINION PACE ' • £■ Many students I have spoken with do not seem to understand the extent to which cheating hurts the non-cheating students more than it does anyone else. Out of some unspoken and unexamined notion that exposing a cheater is ratting on a fellow student, these people let cheaters take advantage of their silence, hoping somehow that the com mon enemy, the professor, will take sufficent precautions to prevent cheating. Yet even the most cautious of professors, using such techniques as different rows of students, alternating seating arrangements, eagle-eyed proctoring, and so on, cannot completely prevent the deter mined student from finding some way to compensate for lack of studying and ignorance of subject matter. A recent incident reported in the University Park Collegian dramatizes this dif ficulty. Last term at University Park a student cheated brazenly and got & Happy Easter & & Boi, Do ] X MGEI>, _^/ /) ZfO&/ ) ZfcS'CO £?V l_£^ n , U o 1 /v 7///M As I See It byKurtCavano Executive Editor away with it. His fellow students and the professor watched in amazement as the student leafed through his notes and his text book during the exam. He even had the audacity to look at the tests of the people around him, while the whole class watched him. The professor was shocked, of course, as the student made no effort to cover his illegal behavior. The professor finally asked the student what he thought he was doing, but the student responded by saying loudly, “Do you know who I am?” The professor shook his head “No”, and the student then turned to the class and asked them the same question. When no one said anything, the unknown student ran to the front of the room and shoved his test in the middle of the pile of already collected exams and ran out of the classroom. The professor could do nothing about it, and the students either did not know the cheater or perhaps more likely, those who aid were unwilling to identify him. Don’t Pay Tickets byKurtCavano the appeal form at security and Very few students know that fill it out. You then appear in they can appeal the parking front of a jury of your peers, the tickets they have accumulated Student Standards Board. You over the past terms in front of a are asked to tell your side of the jury matte up of their peers. If story, and then perhaps the fine you think the ticket you received will either be reduced, or you will was unfair, or if you think not have to pay the fine at all. inadequate parking conditions Who knows the parking con were the cause of your ticket, ditions better than your fellow don’t pay it; appeal it . students! Stand up for your . All you have to do is to ask for rights; appeal those tickets! - 1 £O. you CfZ/UHJAT&D Fft>H 1 ffmH C Oixects. X \ veer you 6 _ <3 f£„, \ 6#i/il>eS. c:XT£# - A<rrjvi- Vrie:S DtCWott . ~ ClOrtTfc W? Behrend Collegian Most students hearing about such an incident are likely to react first with a kind of ad miration for the cheater’s audacity and apparent success. He put one over on the good old prof. Not so. Such a student puts himself into an unfair com petitive position with respect to his fellow students. He is not competing with the professor for a good grade in the course (especially a problem if the grades are curved), or for a high cumulative grade point average. He is not competing with the prof for entrance into graduate school or for jobs after graduation. While he certainly hurts the professor by demonstrating disrespect for him, and while it could be said that he hurts himself, those most obviously hurt are other students. I think it is time for students to take it partly on themselves to make sure that such individuals as this cheater are not glorified as some kind of romantic academic bandits, but rather are exposed for the cheats they are. The editorials appearing in this newspaper will be opinionated and therefore subject to criticism. All letters that are typewritten of 200 words or less and submitted to the newspaper staff will be printed with the ex ception of those that are repetitious or in poor taste. The staff reserves the right to correct lehrenii Collegian Kristen Hartzell Managing Editor Dave Amnan Business Manager Copy Editors: Idi Amin Writers: Sue Wortman, Tim Kenney, Sheri Reim, Sue Bardner, Deirdre McCauley, Steve Nicks Typists: Barbara Bogdan, Jay DiFrank Photographers: Bob Agosti, Larry Flynt Cartoonists: Lindsey Buckingham Business Staff: Tamara Rotella Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michel Small Mailing Address-Behrend College, Station Road, Erie, Pa. 16410 Office-Student Offices, Reed Union Building Office Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m; Monday through Friday Phone: 898-151 T Ext. 238 Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of the Behrend Collegian are not necessarily those of the University Ad ministrotion, faculty, or the student body. Published every Thursday throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring Terms, with exclusions for holidays and term breaks. I would like everyone at Behrend to be aware that duplicate bridge can be learned, painlessly and inexpensively, at the Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Avenue, on Tuesday and-or Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The class (7:30-8:00) is free of charge and the beginners’ game following, 8:00-10:30, costs $1.50, ( $l.OO for students). All work and no play doth make Jack a dull boy and nobody wants to be dull. Other forms of playing may be more appealing, but if you try Y/Q-L,YO«A.'(br W> u mss 3RS& ‘fOJ&LAC K Cf-PAgrtO - PKnon .•». c '£h*£ ST Editorial Policy ttlipp Press Assoriation of CEmmmmarealtij (Eampuarß David Jordan Editor-in-Chief Letters varying viewpoints The Collegian Needs Help Join Today!! I f e©y k r &uess £• I &£7l£iZ GOgACK \T& SCtf*>C AHi> \Hir{o& trt " , \ Lu*T> &&- , _> f / £ V4> J /| CTi\J‘T>£Sy IIIl! or delete portions of all letters for publication purposes. All letters must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. Term standing,_major, and hometown must be included. Signed columns represent the view of the author only and do not necessarily reflect the Editorial policy of the Behrend Collegian. Member of Robin Baulding Entertainment Editor John Blimmel Sports Editor Kurt Cavano Executive Editor duplicate bridge, you may find yourself enthralled by its challenge—don’t let it happen to the exclusion of academic studies. Those who have been at Behrend for some years will know of my previous attempts to form a Behrend College Duplicate Bridge Club. This letter may therefore be classified as ‘repetitious’ but I do hope that it will not qualify for the label ‘in poor taste.’ Bernard Scott March 23, 1978
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