Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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CHEATI G GRUWIHG UULLEGIHTE PHUBLEW ITH twenty-three min- utes left of the final ex- amination, student 32502 his watch. Exactly seven minutes later he stood up, walked to the front of the room, and turned in his paper. The instruc- tor took it, glanced over it, and tore it up. This hapless student had tried one of the many ingenious meth- ods of cheating that students use everyday in American classrooms. Unfortunately for the student, his instructor was both observant and well advised. Still, colleges are faced with the ever increasing problem of cheating. The ways of cheating are many and varied. This particular stu- dent had inserted a minute scroll inside his watch and had replaced the crystal with a magnifying lens. Thus, by simply winding his watch the student obtained the wound pertinent answers needed to pass the exam. Other methods of cheating range from simple crib sheets to elaborate earphone devices. A standard joke among students is that of taking an exam while turning the pages of an open text book. As ludicrous as this may seem, it has been tried. One popular method is lining a clear plastic cartridge pen with paper containing the necessary formulas or answers. Writing on clothing and hands, although a tried and true method, has its set- backs-the ink can smear and the writing can be easily seen by the instructor. The way that works best but requires the most in- genuity is to obtain a copy of the exam before it is given. This isn't often feasible in large universities, but it can sometimes be done in small colleges. The main problem By PAT HART with this method is trying to re- member all the answers, not to mention all the hazards involved while trying to get the exam in the first place. Writing on desk tops or on lap boards can supply a few short answers which may save the day, or if caught, may cost the whole course. The reasons for cheating are as many and varied as the methods. Mr. Neil Crispo, the new director of student activities, feels that much of the cheating in American schools is caused by the idea of competing with one's self. He be- lieves that some of this cheating could be done away with if, We could put education on a basis of competing with each other. If it's a choice between you and the other person, you will always come first. Tom Spencer, president of the 19

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cle to a gema e cfogenafzian 18 BY DAVID WATKINS FOR MRS. NEDA HILLS ENGLISH 102 CLASS The caressing touch of each finger to a key, the whispering hush of felt striking wood, the grop- ing and gnashing of ebony and wire, all lavish them- selves to my supervision, to 1ny fate, and to my everything. Yet my piano is not wood. She is pressed uni- corn horn transplanted and crystallized from an aqua-tinted raindrop, she is gargoyle skin, webbed and silken-thatchedg she is the plucked, feathered carpets from the shiny parlors of Olympian maidens, she is the stretched beams of tossed-away prisms, and the retrograde whirlings of excavated minds. Yet my piano is not wire. She is spun moonbeam trapped in a rusted thimbleg she is the tarnished porcelain from bloody spiral stairxvays in the Louvre, she is all the evaporated thoughts that have con- densed on the roof of the world. My piano is my soul, my treatise on each sculp- ture and syndrome I fancy or profane. A cynic of cynics do I become when I mount her lap and pat her head. My piano is more than a friend. She senses my moods and releases my dreams, she bickers and pouts when I doubt my esteem: she echoes the songs of my flesh into the prolonged nights which I know as daysg she consoles my laughter and sighs at my despondency. I cannot see into me without her eyes. I cannot curl my fingers around eternity and dangle my arms off this scaffold of reality without having her as a lifeline to shore. XfVhen I touch her, flesh against flesh, there can be no tomorrow, there can be no forever, and there can be no darkness. She cries out in my anger, whis- pers to my passion, and lavishes herself upon my moments of delight, my hours of creation, and my songs to the very brashness of the gods that gave me a woman I could enslave in the timeless void of unimaginable words.

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4 fi I .' 5 Undergraduate Student Govern- ment at the University of Miami, made this comment: We've had no cases of a good student ever cheating. Those who do cheat, usually do it from necessity-such as a football player trying to maintain his grade point average. Some of the instructors at JCBC believe that a majority of students do cheat or would cheat. One of these instructors said, Half of my students cheat now and if I gave them a chance, the rest of them would, too. Other instructors have said that, Not many students resist the temptation to cheat, and Everyone would cheat if they weren't afraid of getting caught. There are instructors, though, who feel, College students are usually a pretty good lot and can be trusted to make the best decision. The students themselves have varying views on cheating. Some will admit to having resorted td cheating in order to pass a course but others maintain that it isn't worth cheating just to get a grade. They feel that getting an educa- tion is the basis for college work and cheating on an exam doesn't help them to learn anything, but just takes away from their self- respect. One student said, It is a terri- ble experience to know the answer to an exam question but not be able to think of it. This is the time when a person is most likely to look on another person's paperf' A sophomore at JCBC said, Cheating is a despicable practice. If you have to cheat to pass a course, you shouldn't be taking it in the first place. Other students say that cheat- ing is merely a means to get out of school. The faster you pass a course, the less time you have left in school. I'd do just about any- thing to pass, including a little cheating on the side. There are various types of