2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 15, 1998 NATION/WORLD En gin eering reviews GRANGER Continued from Page IA last winter. The investigation brought a lot of attention and division to the wealthy suburb. Granger said he had also suf- fered for his crimes: His goal of a career in politics was shot and "my name has been dragged through the mud across the country. "Me sitting in jail will only be counterproductive. I gain nothing by sitting in jail, and neither do these girls," he said. Kenny said several people had writ- ten him to ask that Granger serve no jail time, noting his leadership quali- ties. But Kenny said Granger apparent- ly used those qualities to befriend the girls for sexual gain. "I think it's important to note that achievement is one thing and character is another," Kenny told Granger. "There are people who have achieved a lot ... and yet whose personal character leaves a lot to be desired. "I know, as all parents who have raised children through high school know, the difference in maturity between an 18-year-old senior and a 14-year-old freshman." Granger was the first of four Grosse Pointe teens charged in the case to be sentenced. All were origi- nally charged with felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The other defendants pleaded guilty to charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and will be sentenced later this month. Kenny put several conditions on Granger's probation, requiring him to spend 200 hours as an adult literacy tutor and wearing an electronic tether when not at school until Aug. 31, 1999. Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Doug Baker had asked for Granger to serve a 180-day sentence. He said he was happy with the sentence, but less satisfied with Granger's statement. "He seemed to roll it all in together, that he and the victims were on some joint venture into illegality. I think that misses the point," Baker said. long-stand CHEATING Continued from Page 1A almost got kicked out," Marsac said. "He had to go before the (Engineering Honor) Council. He was sweating it." Marsac cited part of the written Honor Code - a statement saying a test-taker did not receive or conceal information during an exam that all Engineers must sign - as a reason for student honesty. "The teachers are not in the room during the exam," Marsac said. "Kids take it mores seriously. The teachers are saying, 'I'm not a baby-sitter; this is the real world."' But in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, most instructors monitor exams. Some said they adminis- ter different exams to each student in an effort to reduce cheating on tests. Many instructors said they were not aware of any cheating on homework or exams. If they were, they may opt to han- dle the situation individually rather than report the violation to their department. "No sane person would ever catch and charge a cheating student,' eco- nomics Prof. Richard Porter said. "The processes, University and court, would use up a year of your life." Because cheating is not included in . the violations listed under the University's Code of Student Conduct, policies vary in each of the 18 divisions of the University. 'g code r c review a forum for students POETRYf ESSAYS for submission guidelinesi DRSAMA check out our website @ FICTION http://www.umich.edu/ ART rcreview LAST DAY TO LSA interim Dean Patricia Gurin's office receives about 50 reports of cheating each year. The office reported that last year 66 LSA students were accused of cheating. Economics visiting assistant Prof. Michael Kiley said he recently dealt with a suspected cheating problem completely on his own by having the students retake the exam. "In this particular instance, some people chose not to follow directions," Kiley said. "Some people took more time or did not hand in their exam." Kiley said he was told by students there may have been a problem, and he didn't know which students had cheat- ed, so the only option was to re-admin- ister the test. Ebert said a problem with cheating accusations is the "gray area" between student collaboration and an actual cheating offense. "Sometimes, students work together a little too much on homework assign- ments" Ebert said, adding that whether this constitutes cheating is a matter of opinion. "Cheating isn't always inten- tional." LSA first-year student Nick Huang said he often works with his Mathematics 115 study group on prob- lem sets - and owns a calculator that stores math formulas. "Usually, people use these calcula- tors to store formulas they can't remember, and that's OK," said Huang, explaining that in the future, these num- bers won't need to be stored in his memory. "You figure, you don't need to memorize things in the real world. You can always go back to the book." In LSA, some professors said, the definition of "cheating" can become very hazy because of longer essays and written assignments - problems that aren't easy to monitor. Economics Prof. Bob Barsky said his experience with student cheating has been on assigned papers - "not quite plagiarism, but dependence on one source with little attribution. "The most serious cheating problem that I encounter is the excess death rate among grandmothers," Barsky said. "You know what I mean - spurious reasons for delaying exams and assignments." ALL UNDERGRADsuTibmi~t! AROUND THE NATION GOP Congress working to adjourn WASHINGTON - After a year of sputtering, the Republican-controlled Congress is stumbling toward adjournment under pressure from a resilient President Clinton and congressional Democrats eager to turn election-year talk to education and other popular issues. Since muscling an open-ended impeachment inquiry through the House l* week on a largely party-line vote, Republicans have been forced into a prolonged series of closed-door negotiations with the White House on other matters. A year's work hangs in the balance - from legislation on national issues such as education and contraceptives to the individual projects that many lawmakers crave - and the daily script has been predictable. Chief of staff Erskine Bowles spends hours in private talks with GOP leaders inside the Capitol, and the presi- dent roughs up Republicans in brief, once-a-day public appearances before the television cameras. "I wish I had time to win the philosophical debate with our friends on the other side, who somehow see helping more teachers teach and providing more school buildings as an intrusion into local affairs. It is not," Clinton said this week at a campaign-style appearance at an overcrowded Maryland school a few miles from the White House Republicans counter that the Democrats are merely defenders of a large bureau- cracy. Bomb suspect to be charged in attacks WASHINGTON - Eric Robert Rudolph, who for months has eluded a massive manhunt as a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abor- tion clinic, will be charged with the 1996 Olympics bombing and two other attacks in Atlanta, law enforcement sources said Tuesday. In May, when Rudolph was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list, FBI Director Louis Frech said that investi- gators had developed "a significant linkage" between the Birmingham bombing and the three earlier Atlanta attacks. Freeh said then that, while Rudolph was not an official suspect in the Atlanta bombings, he was "the only individual that we're seeking right now" for questioning in those cases. Investigators since have uncovered substantial other evidence linking the crimes but it is not likely to be made public when the charges against Rudolph are announced, a development that could have come as early as yester- day, according to the sources who declined to be identified. The Justice Department action is designed to spur public cooperation in the hunt for Rudolph and to discoura anyone from helping the fugitive, t sources said. Congress blocks nuclear info release WASHINGTON - The Energy Department and Pentagon discovered sensitive nuclear weapons information in boxes of Cold War-era materials that were about to be publicly released, President Clinton's orders. The discoveries sparked a hasty scramble by Congress to block the release of information that energy offi- cials warned would advance the capabil- ities of emerging nuclear states such as Pakistan and India. The congressional solution, which critics contend will slow the release of Cold War documents to a crawl, is part of the 1999 defense autho- rization bill awaiting Clinton's signature dlo B R I A R W 0o D M A IL L U of M and Eastern Michigan, students and employees. Show us your "M" card or "Eagle" card. *Not valid on Kiddie Car Classics or Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments liq4& 44(cdhmdV - Briarwood Mail The Vice President for Student Affairs ad that appeared in the October 12th edition of The Michigan Daily contained an error. The ad should have read "A Very Special Thank You to the following Ann Arbor Busi- nesses for making WELCOME TO MICHIGAN '98 a Huge Success." 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