0- ~L7 II C f,3 )k THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Fired A U. of Maryland, College Park teaching assistant was fired for "racist" remarks. - Page 2 Nationwide study reve more freshmen cheati Hard news The editor of the U. of Washington newspaper faced tough decisions the day after a murder on campus. - Page 8 Hip hop is happening Rap has emerged as a musical and commercial force. - Page 14 Working overtime Grad students at U. of Nevada, Reno, say they must take second jobs to supplement their stipends. - Page 16 Olympics mania Georgia Tech could become the Olympic Village of the 1996 Olympics. - Page 23 By Dannie Tilliman The Daily Athenaeum West Virginia U. The number of freshmen who cheat frequently or occasionally increased 6.2 percent in 1988, according to a nation- wide poll administered annually since 1966. A poll of 222,296 freshmen at 402 col- leges and universities revealed 36.6 per- cent of the students surveyed cheated while 57.1 percent admitted to copying another student's work. Both figures increased since the 1987 poll of 209,627 freshmen that showed 30.4 percent cheated and 52.7 percent copied another's work. The surveys were conducted by the American Council of Education and the Higher Education Research Institute at U. of California, Los Angeles. They have conducted an annual sur- vey on student cheating since 1966, when 20.6 percent of students admitted cheating. But cheating at West Virginia U. is not a serious problem, according to Assistant Dean for Student Life Thomas Sloane. "I have no reason to believe cheating is rampant or pervasive." A West Virginia business sophomore t awl may o p ~s4HID f, ow IV) IqOp i ov N tq 1172 ._ a GRANT CARMICHAEL, THE TARTAN, CA said in some instances cheating is not wrong. Heusednotes tohelp him on statis- tics exams. "I wrote answers on a little piece of paper and stuck it in my pocket. "My justification is that in a job situa- tion, you will have reference manuals and can look up information. For math and statistics, formulas are there in a book." .,, He studies, manages shoe store and fights fires By Tom Puckett a The Eastern Progress Eastern Kentucky U. Eastern Kentucky U. senior David Schoengart takes a typical day and turns it into a marathon. While most university students are content to balance classes with a part- time job, he works his studies around a manager's job that requires 60 to 70 hours a week. And at any given moment, Schoengart, 23, is ready to speed off to provide assistance at life-threatening accidents or fires. "I don't understand people who work eight hours a day, and then complain that they don't have enough time," Schoengart said. "You can do a whole lot more than you think you can, if you just LESUE YOUNG, THE EASTERN PROGRESS. EASTERN KENTUCKY U. set your goals and then live by them." Store manager David Schoengart laces Shayne Biser's shoes as Laurel Miller looks on. See FIREMAN, Page 10 Sloane disagrees. He said is a clear-cut case of cheatin to call them crib notes." "Cheating cuts across cla Sloane said. "I have known c very good students have freshmen, sophomores, junio graduate students and pro TAs' Eng question( By Kelly S. Brown The Battallion Texas A&M U. Texas A&M U. students is a communication gap some of the university's born teaching assista English-speaking studeni "I'm one of those pea believes that whether it's or five students that car stand or communicate teacher because of his whatever, then the stude robbed academically," Lowry Mays said. See TA .A-