University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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7- Writing on arms or hands is a technique invented for cheating during exams. Formulas and equations are sometimes put on cheat sheets for math and science tests, 1 8 Academics

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Steve Oddo uring fall quarter at Santa Clara, many familiar faces failed to show up. This had happened before. These unseen students didn't drop out, transfer, or gra- duate. Instead, they opted for a semester or year of study abroad. 102 Santa Clara juniors and sen- iors spent a semester or a full year study- ing in Europe or Ja- pan. Studying, however, wasn't the only draw I I in ,uw W I 'I 'IT I ws Q, . IQ V, fr Sieve Oddo LO DO , PARIS, RO , VIENN : ROMANTIC CITIES COME TO LIFE AS SCU STUDENTS EXPLORE ART, POLITICS AND CULTURAL TREASURES Europe offered. Stu- dents were able to sample a wide variety of experiences from the bull fights in Ma- drid to the festivals in Freiburg. In the fall, The universities, however, were the main reason students came to the conti- nent. The programs in Madrid, Paris, Nantes, and Freiburg many of the students offered courses in the gathered at the Okto- berfest in Munich. The students com- native language, while the other uni- versities offered pared notes and classes in English. shared experiences The students returned while drinking hearty from their exper- liter-mugs of Lowen- iences abroad with a brau and Hufbrau. good understanding of I've never had so the country they had much fun in my life, visited and a new per- said junior Kathy spective on their Donat. home in America. It made me appre- ciate America more, said junior John Del Santo, I found Italy to be a little back- ward. This renewed es- teem for America came from a wider understanding of the people and cultures where students stayed - their exper- iences were an added feature to the diverse educational opportuni- ties offered at SCU. Traveling down the Seine, juniors Steve Oddo, Dennis Fraher and Chet Chappell enjoy the sights of Paris on their way to the Oktoberfest in Germany. by Steve Oddo London, Paris, Rome, Vienna

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E 1 : E : .2 0 5 Z Although a University Committee reported 482 incidents of cheating, many were left unpunished. Dishonesty Studied by Steve Lozano s part of a re- newed plan to curb student dishonesty during the 1984-85 year, a faculty board began studying cheating by Santa Clara students. A sur- vey by the Academic Integrity Committee cited 482 incidents of cheating in 1982-83. We wanted to raise the issue, said John Stewart, Ph.D., anthro- pology! sociology pro- fessor and member of the commitee. It had not been raised enough. As members of the committee, Dr. Stewart and Carol White, Ph.D., of the Philos- ophy Department stud- ied student dishonesty with a hope to create alternative policy op- tions to foster greater academic integrity. The committee sur- veyed over 160 SCU professors and discov- ered that the respon- dents were aware of 482 cases of cheating in 1982-83. Further- more, the committee's report stated that pre- vious reports and stu- dent interviews sug- gested that the fre- quency of dishonesty is significantly greater than that observed by faculty. The committee re- port also outlined eight disciplinary measures taken by faculty in re- sponse to student di- shonesty. Approxi- mately half of the time professors either warned the student about cheating or ig- nored the incident be- cause of the lack of evidence. Only 14 per- cent of the incidents prompted professors to give a student an F on the assignment or exam. However, these per- centages can not be easily compared, sug- gested Dr. White. It's my hunch that in many cases the only thing the professors could do is warn the student, said Dr. White. It's difficult to prove that students glancing around the room during an exam were actually cheat- ing. The committee's sur- vey also specified dif- ferent types of stu- dent cheating during the 1982-83 academic year. And of the seven types of cheating out- lined, the most com- mon violations were in business, history! science and mathema- tics!natural sciences. Plagiarism from sec- ondary sources was the most common type of cheating in the arts! humanities with 57 in- cidents. Only 21 inci- dents of copying from students during in- class exams were re- ported in that division. The lowest number of reported incidents occured in engineering. Only five percent of the total number of re- ported cases were in engineering while 37 percent of the cases occurred in business. The second highest number of reports oc- curred in arts!humani- ties with 25 percent. History! social sciences and mathematics! na- tural science followed with 19 percent and ten percent, respective- ly. This problem is not unique to Santa Clara, declared Dr. Stewart. Around the country and here at Santa Clara there has been a lack of academic integ- rity, he said. Dr. Stewart cited increased pressure for students to succeed in school as a reason for student di- shonesty. The stresses for students are great, which leads to a natu- ral tendency to cheat. said Dr. Stewart. Dr. Gina De Ranieri ob- served, People cheat because universities, graduate schools, and law schools put too much emphasis on grades as opposed to knowledge in the sub- ject. College students feel that they need to get good grades in or- der to succeed. There- fore, they will do any- thing, including cheat- ing, to get the grades. Dishonesty Studied