,TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1960 #\ TWO THE MffCI!IGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26. ~96O PAUL BUNYAN BALL Intellectual Dishonesty Square Dancing 8-9 Round Dancing 9-12 MICHIGAN LEAGUE 8-12 HILLEL CHOIR Organization Meeting and Rehearsal Sunday, Feb. 28, 5 P.M. in Zwerdling-Cohn Chapel For all interested Fine opportunity to participate in Sabbath Services and Group Functions B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION 1429 Hill Street ll (EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol- lowing statement was drafted by the Student Committee on Honesty, a group of 10 literary college seniors investigating stu- dent behavior at the request of the College's Administrative Board. All comments and in- quiries should be addressed to the committee, 1220 Angel Hall.) A good number of students do not know what intellectual dishonesty means. Besides those who are flagrantly cheat- ing, there are a good many fine students who, unknowingly, ore dishonest. And this matters. It matters not only to the faculty but also to the students. Our intention is to clarify to the second, larg- er group what cheating is and to make clear to both groups the moral implications and practical consequences of aca- demic dishonesty. Conscious Cheating Conscious spontaneous The former cheating is either or pre-meditated. occurs when the HAL HOLBROOK "MARK TWAIN TONIGHT!" POSTPONED TO APRIL 12, 8:30 P.M. Tickets issued for February 27 will be honored April 12. PLATFORM ATTRACTIONS HILL AUDITORIUM student in a test situation sud- denly finds he can't remember an answer, becomes "clutched," and looks on his neighbor's work. On the other hand, pre- meditated cheating includes bringing notes into an exam or setting up any type of crib- bing system which obtains the answers illegally. "Dry labbing" or having one's paper or exam written by someone else are other ex- amples. In this last case, both the student who writes the paper and the one for whom it is being written are guilty of dishonesty. Unintentional What bothers the faculty and students as much as this "conscious" kind of deception are the group of students who think they're being honest but actually are developing- them- selves. Such a student is one who though understanding it is Undergraduate Men are needed . . to serve in an experiment for 1 1 hours. Pay $2.00. Please call Mrs. Strong rHO 341511 Ext. 2651 or send postcard with name, address, phone and hours available to her at 6627 Haven Hall. wrong to carry notes into anI exam fails to see that memor- izing an old quiz before the test is comparable. He falls into dishonesty since he uses the exam knowing that the ques- tions on the test will be re- peated. Using old material for re- view purposes or for familiar- izing oneself with the instruc- tor's testing method is not wrong. Certain professors en- courage this as it tends to put the student more at ease before the exam. Plagiarism Wrong Equally ignorant is the stu- dent who unconsciously plag- iarizes. A student knows that plagiarism is turning in some other work as his own. How- ever, it also includes failing to give credit to the source of any ideas the student has used in a paper. Reading a critic before writ- ing a paper is fine. This is good scholarship. If the student, though, wants to incorporate verbatim something another author has written, quotation marks must be used and the source cited. Being Light-Fingered' If the student prefers to paraphrase, using his own words to describe an author's idea, it is still essential that he mention that this is the critic's thinking and not his own. By not doing so, the student is being, as one member of the faculty put it, "lightfingered with ideas." And being "light- fingered with ideas" could lead one student to ask another for a paper which can be copied. This is also dishonest. A final example of this naive cheating is submitting the same paper to more than one instructor without their con- sent. It must be remembered that a list like this cannot possibly be complete. Were it complete, our intentions might be con- strued as instructive rather than constructive by some mis- guidetd students. Rather it is our intent to illustrate what is generally considered as cheat- ing, i.e., the student's present- ing someone else's work or thinking as his own or his at- tempt in any manner to de- ceive. Consequences Serious What are the practical con- sequences of cheating? A lit school student found cheating will be brought before the College Administration Board which consists of both faculty and students. There, the stu- dent may get an E on the paper or exam. Or, he may get an E in the course with the notation on his transcript that it was "by action of the Ad- ministrative Board." Lastly, he could be suspended from school. There is a growing tendency among members of the faculty to view the student-course re- lationship on a contractual basis. That is, when registering for a course the student under- takes the obligation to com- plete the work with full integ- rity. In so doing, he fulflls not only his intellectual contract with the professor but also one of mutual trust with the other students. And if any student fails to uphold his obligations, no mat- ter how excellent his past rec- ord, that person has broken this "contract" and will receive at least an "E" in the exam and, more than likely, an E in the course. Furthermore, you can't wipe out the fact that a person who, whether now or later, is viewed as being weak in character will not be held in full esteem by his friends and associates. There is, then, nothing ex- pedient about cheating. In the short run, the student may be caught. In the long run, his actions are going to catch up with him. Ethics Paramount The ethical implications of cheating are of the highest im- portance. Without any qualifi- cation, dishonesty in any form whatsoever is, reprehensible. And the consequences of in- tellectual dishonesty are felt by the university, by one's fellow students, and most important, by the individual who is doing the cheating. For whengcheating becomes a student pastime, the aca- demic standing and atmos- phere of the university is con- siderably lowered, and conse- quently, the value of its degree. The other students are affected in that their own efforts may not be properly rewarded. When so many course grades are determined on a relative basis, the effect of cheating is to assign to honest work a lower value by comparison. For the individual, cheating may begin an insidious pattern which will develop beyond col- lege days. Getting away with something today encourages trying the same kind of action tomorrow. What has, unfortunately, led to a great deal of cheating both here and at other schools has been the willingness on the part of some students to com- promise that which cannot be compromised, the individual's moral integrity. --Student Committee on Honesty John Eisberg, Chm. Gretchen Burgie Ann Doniger Jo Hardee Carol Holland Martin Newman William Ransom Michael Sklar Thomas Turner Maurice Zilber Council Sets Dinner Date 'ith Group Seeks Concurrment With Relations Board By THOMAS HAYDEN City Council and the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission have scheduled an informal dinner-dis- cussion for March 15, aimed at establisning a smoother working relationship between the two groups. But most of the apparent diffi- culties between the bodies have been largely cleared up, Vaughn Whited, Commission chairman, said yesterday. . At their Feb. 16 meeting, several Commission members had sug- gested the Council has been too conservative in its attitude toward human relations. The Council had deliberately delayed action on two of the Commission's discrimina- tion reports, they indicated. But after a meeting with several city officials last Friday, Whited said most of the troubles were due to misunderstandings. Recommended Action The first of the Commission's discrimination reports, made to the Council in March, 1959, studied housing conditions in the city. It reported evidence for dis- crimination, and recommended Ann Arbor take some legislative action. "We were unaware of any Coun- cil action on the report," Whited said. "But a group headed by Councilman (A. Nelson) Dingle has had several meetings on the matter." The Commission simply hadn't been informed of the Din- gle Committee's meetings, Whited said. The second report involves a local store which the Commission feels is guilty of discriminatory practice. Neither the store's name nor details of the case can be published until the report is made public, through the Council. The report was sent to the Council for addition to the Feb. 8 agenda, but was removed from the agenda days before the meeting. Report Incomplete The Council explained that the report was incomplete and that analysis by the city attorney was also necessary before official adop- tion by the Council. City Attorney Jacob Fahrner said yesterday the Commission's report seems to evidence no legal difficulties. The Council has now tentatively planned to take up the report at its regular meeting Monday night. ODETTA' FOLK MUSIC: March 13 at 8:30 Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium Tickets: $3.50, $2.75, $1.75 Available at THE DISC SHOP DANCE f eaturing The DIXIE-CATS DICK CORRELL ARTIE EDWARDS PHIL STANLEY JERRY LIBBY KAY MIESEN TOM HYATT BOB ALEXANDER HUGH SCOTT FOR THE BEST BILL HENLINE BOB JAMES MAC DANFORTH FREDDIE BENTZ DANCE MUSIC, The CONTINENTALS COOL OR HOT plus more fine talent CALL HUGH SCOTT NO0 5-5700 hugh scott agency t 121O South University . . 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