'Elan Ad One hundred four years of editorial freedom ,w a, ' - ISA pro poses NEXT TIME, I'LL TAKE THE STAIRS new policy to , deter cheating By RONNIE GLASSBERG Daily Staff Reporter yrR To combat the rising problem of academic dishonesty, ' the College of LSA has revamped its academic judiciary. - The new process seeks to speed up disposition of cases and makes it easier for faculty members to file complaints by N S F,5t adding a case worker to investigate charges of cheating. In addition, students will be required to sign an aca- demic integrity statement before enrolling in the college. The policy, which goes into effect in January pending proval by the faculty, will expire after winter 1997. At the suggestion of LSA Dean Edie N. Goldenberg, the LSA Joint Faculty/Student Policy Committee re- viewed the policy. "We've had something in place for a long time and it's Rackham D dansays ne 1,retire D'Arms will leave June 30 Key Changes M Requires students to sign-a statement on - academic, integrity efore enrolling in the college. Adds an administrative hearing to speed up the process. Students and faculty members can choose to move directly to the academic judiciary. Adds a case worker tQ investigate charges of cheating for faculty. members. just fundamental to every- thingwe do," Goldenberg said. "We need to be con- scious of giving proper credit to others for their ideas and claiming for ideas that our only our own." The committee report cited a study in the Journal of College Student Develop- ment that found 40 to 90 percent of students in uni- versities admitted to some form of cheating. In LSA, faculty members brought 40 to 50 cases of cheating to the academicjudiciary last year. The academic judiciary now consists of two stu- dents and two faculty members who.hear allega- tions of cheating and then By LISA DINES Daily Staff Reporter John D' Arms, dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studiesannounced yesterday that he will not seek re-ap- pointment as dean - a position he has- held for nine years. He also will leave his position asy vice provost foraca- demic affairs, a post he has held since March 1990.4 D'Arms joined the4 University faculty in 1965 and will re- D'Arms main at the Univer- sity as the Gerald F. Else Professor of Classical Studies. In an interview, D'Arms said he is leaving the position to follow other interests. "Ten years seems to me a rich, sufficent amount of time for doing one thing in a devoted single-minded way," he said. "There are other things I look forward to pursuing." D' Arms said these other pursuits include a return to teaching history and classical studies at the University. Provost and vice president for aca- demic affairs. Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr.. said there will be a search to fill the vacancies. He said the position has typically been chosen from internal candidates and he hopes to have the position filled before D'Arms steps down June 30. Whitaker added that it will be diffi- cult to replace D'Arms. "I think he's done a magnificent job," he said. "I understand he wants to do other things, but we'll miss him because he has done a wonderful job in Rackham." D'Arrms said Rackham has focused more attention on student needs during his tenure as dean. "Together we've tried to focus very directly on student quality and student needs." He said the school has worked to recognize student achievement, in- crease financial support for graduate students and help move students through doctoral programs in a timely manner. D'Arms also said the recruitment and retainment of minority students in the school has vastly improved in the last ten years. "There has been a very impressive University-wide commitment to attract- ing and maintaining graduate students historically underrepresented in gradu- ate education around the country," he said. See D'ARMS, Page 2 determine the sanctions. Under the proposal, the sanctions instead will be determined by the LSA assistant dean for student aca- demic affairs to create consistency. "There was this feel- ing that the judements were too harsh or too lenient," said vid Schoem, LSA assistant dean, who chaired the policy committee. The policy adds an additional administrative hearing process with a hearing officer to be selected from emeritus faculty. Also in attendance will be the case officer and the student charged. The faculty member charging the student may also attend the hearing. Both the student and the faculty member must agree to bring the case to the administrative hearing or the case moves directly to the academic judiciary. S"It will be a much more speedy process if people choose e administrative hearing," Schoem said. "The rules are much more informal. You can talk together about the case." If any of the members present at the administrative hearing disagree with the outcome, the case moves to the academic judiciary. Faculty members not attending will not be able to provide input in the administrative hearing pro- cess and the decisions reached. For faculty members charging students with cheating, the college will appoint a case investigator to look into an incident. See CHEATING, Page 2 John O'Conner of Grunwell & cotta cornice yesterday. MIUHAEL r1-11 HUUDaiy Cashero Restoration Company patches Hill Auditorium's terra Court ullfies MSA's budget meeting By CATHY BOGUSLASKI Daily Staff Reporter The Michigan Student's Assembly's external budget was nullified last night, as a student court ruled members had not been properly notified of the emergency meeting. This decision means funding for the Ann Arbor Ten- ants' Union (AATU) is again in limbo. At 11:12 p.m., the Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) declared MSA's emergency meeting to approve the exter- nal budget held Thursday null and void. MSA must now re-vote on the external budget. While the proposed external budget does not provide any line- item funding for the AATU, it could be amended. The case stemmed from the emergency meeting, which was held to pass the external budget. The budget was delayed due to debate over line-item funding for AATU. Following the Thursday meeting, LSA Rep. Dante Stella and other assembly members filed a case with CSJ alleging that some MSA members were not properly notified. MSA rules require that all members be notified at least two hours in advance of an emergency meeting. LSA Rep. Paul Scublinsky, chairman of the rules and elections committee represented MSA during hearing. He told the judiciary, "MSA has done all it could to notify people" of the meeting. Craig Greenberg, former MSA president and a mem- ber of the Daily's editorial staff, who acted as counsel to the defense, said MSA had made a "more than reasonable" 'U' fares poorly in survey, scores a 'B-' By JOSH WHITE Daily Staff Reporter So, you thought that you attended one of the nation's top schools, huh? Well, according to a new book, "The Princeton Review Student Access Guide to the Best 306 Colleges," the University of Michigan earned a "B" for academics and a "B-" for quality of life. The University also failed to e 61 of the book's 63 top-20 lists. Why such a bad rating? Jeanne Krier, a spokeswoman for Villard Books, said that the survey, which reached 48,000 students nation-wide, asked less than 150 students at each of 306 schools to rate their own school's programs. "The lists are based completely on our stu- dent surveys,"tKrier said in a press release. "If your school is on one, it means a very high rcentage of students at your school described o in our survey." Princeton Review asked students about 70 questions ranging from academics to dorms to the Greek scene on their campuses. Among other ratings, the University was given a score of 82 out of 100 points on its quality of life. "I disagree," said LSA sophomore Katie Shulman, who sat outside the Union. "I person- ally would give Michigan a perfect 100 for the quality of life. I am surprised that other students would not rank it higher." Out of an undergraduate enrollment of 25,000, the book's survey asked less than .75 percent of the students on campus what their opinions are. The survey was also distributed at random. "Information gathered at random with such a small sample is totally useless information," said University research investigator and social sciences lecturer Charlotte Steeh. "Even if the data was gathered in a scientific way, the results are no reliable asessment of anything and can- not be a valid estimate due to such a large margin of error. "If the survey was in fact done at random, the survey pool would be somewhat self-selec- tive, and perhaps the people who responded were people who wanted to complain about the See RANKING, Page 2 attempt to reach all assembly members. Stella told the judiciary that e-mail and messages on answering machines should not be considered adequate notification because they "depend on independent action" by assembly members. Adequate notification would con- sist of a personal phone call or personal contact, he said. Neither MSA President Julie Neenan nor MSA Vice President Jacob Stern, the officers involved in contacting members about the meeting, were present when CSJ heard the case. Both officers supplied affidavits to the court. The plaintiffs presented affidavits from two members who said they were not duly informed of the meeting. The assembly's next regular meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 in MSA chambers. U.S. storms paramilitary post inHaiti Los Angeles Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -"You are sent from God!" screamed Nasal Aristil from across the street yesterday just before 10 a.m., as two Sheridan MI55 tanks blanketed with U.S. troops lowered their gun barrels at the headquarters of Haiti's dreaded paramilitary known as FRAPH. Within seconds, dozens of combat soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division leaped from trucks, jeeps, armed humvees and a total of five tanks. They swarmed the building, sweeping the street with U.S. Marine Criminal Intelligence officers, searching scores of Haitians, confis- cating more than 20 pistols and 10 rifles and finally hand- cuffing and detaining more than 30 suspected members of one of Haiti's most hated state terrorist groups. "You have delivered us from hell," Aristil declared, as thousands of Haitians, among them victims of the group's brutality, chanted "Long live the Americans!" to the troops and "Die like dogs!" to their former tormentors. In storming the small, three-building complex with an awesome column of armor and without a single shot, the U.S. force in Haiti had scored its first major victory in an intensifying psychological war after two weeks of violence -- .. .. .. . -... -. --.-.-.... MICHAEL FITZHUGH/Daily Former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) speaks to reporters yesterday. Tsongas predacheslo defic.it gspl t me' ...... U.., 7AV'IAD hV M% DAi'hN 'T'I a nrln ltY(111 ssr irvn to irsf r , m niti