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Disciplinary C Crime F BY MARSHALL SWANSON Contributing Editor Out-of- state male students at Carolina are misbehaving in numbers disproportionate to their population percentage according to a Sept. 25 report released by the Division of Student Affairs. The report, authored by Dr. Paul P. Fidler, assistant vice-president for student affairs, and graduate assistants Julianne Still and Robert Smith, Jr., shows that state residency is a factor in spotting males who committed major disciplinary offenses during a ten year period from 1963 - 1973. In addition, the report showed ZIP KLEEN 1320 Main Street DRY CLEANING SPECIAL 2 pc. men's or lady's plair suits or dresses 4 day service $1.44 eact MIX 'EM UP - PA N TS-SI IRTS skirts -SW E ATE RS 4 l)av Service 3 FOR $1.99 1320 Main Street USC E Student Senate in F Visitor se Cut along < OFFI( Print Ni Thi requ ommittee Rep tate Hic 'Approximately 3 1963-73 were corn that out-of-state students from Middle Atlantic States committed a greater number of major of fenses than those from Southern States, based on the relative per centage of all undergraduate male students enrolled at USC from these regions. The report also stated that over half of out-of-state and in-state disciplinary offenders were freshmen. Individuals from out of-state who ran afoul of the university's Disciplinary Com mittee were found to have graduated in the lower half of their high school class almost twice as often their in-state counterparts, the report added. The study of July 1, 1973, updated the results of a previous study on problem students done during the five year period from July 1, 1963, to June 30, 1968. The earlier study dealt with 205 male students against whom disciplinary action was taken by Thousands of Topics $2.75 per page Send for your up-to-date, 160-page, mail order catalog. Enclose $1.00 to cover postage (delivery time is 1 to 2 days). RESEARCH ASSISTANCE, INC. 11941 WILSHIRE BLVD., SUITE #2 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90025 (213) 477-8474 or 477-5493 Our research material is sold for research assistance only. Visit The itudent S le an. official visitoi Meets 5--6 p.m. Ev4 toom 310 Russell - ats reserved in rec otted line pin on shirl IAL VISITORS' To Student Senate me Dorm ~s pass is n ired to att orts: iher By I 9.7 per cent of the imitted by out-of-st4 report shows. the Discipline Committee. The report noted that although the nature of the offenses com mitted by the students changed somewhat over the years, certain crimes retained their classification as maior offenses, and because of severitywere handled by the Disciplinary Committee. Among these were malicious vandalism, possession or use of firearms, arson, theft, forgery or fraud, possession or sale of illegal drugs and assault. The report was drawn from a sample of 346 students found guilty by the Disciplinary committee for major offenses from July 1, 1963 to June 30, 1973. Students appearing before the committee petitioning for admission, readmission or appealing a lower echelon decision were not included in the sample, the report said. The analysis was restricted to male students because only 30 woman students or 8.7 per cent of the sample were included in the 346 offenders. The study also did not include those students disciplined or suspended from Carolina during the summer and spring of 1970 for sit-ins and demonstrations relating to the nationwide student reaction of the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings. "Approximately 39.7 per cent of the offenses during 1963-73 were committed by out-of-state students," the report said. "Major deviations of this trend occurred during 1967-68 when nearly 72 per enate Bry Wednesday louse ir of room PASS: orDsrc -.. . .... . . - of en 1Jon-Re, offenses during ite students,' cent of all cases involved out-of state students and to a lesser ex tent in 1970-71 when 56.3 per cent of all cases involved non-residents. "...To contrast the percentage of out-of-state students enrolled in the total male undergraduate population,it should be noted that never in the period of 1963-73 has the percentage of out-of-state students in the total male un dergraduate population exceeded 23 percent. In fact, this per centage has constantly decreased since 1965 and in 1972 had dropped to 18.4 per cent. The report explained that of 120 out-of-state students appearing before the Discipline Committee, 78, or 65 per cent, were from the Middle Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvanial, and the Distriet of Columbia. "In contrast," the report added, "these states comprised only 37.2 per cent of the male out-of-state student population during Fall 1972." Twenty-five' students, or 21 per cent of the 120 out-of-state students, were from the southern states of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisisana and Mississippi. These states provided 41.5per cent of the male out-of-state student population THE TRINK t4, Good For One FREE Dratt. Par ftson Pizza BUY ON GET ON SPAGHE Serving wri - 3P.M. Til Located at the inte I-20 ncons troii nid ents in September, 1972, the report found. Of all entering freshman for the Fall semester, the report found that fewer than 30 per cent had graduated in the lower half of their high school class. Thirty-seven point nine per cent of the South Carolinians who came up before the Disciplinary Committee had graduated in the lower half of their high school class, compared to 72 per cent of out-of-state students who got into trouble. The report said the total number of disciplinary cases was declining (except for drug abuse) but remained a matter of concern for the Student Affairs Division. The report said that following publication of the first study, but not necessarily because of it, admissions policies at Carolina were made more stringent for out-of-state students who graduated in the lower half of their high school class. 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