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Cheating sh As most students know, cheating in various degrees is not uncommon at USC. With final exams imminent, professors may have good cause to investigate the university's student justice system. The student information manual, Carolina Community, sets forth procedure for punishment of cheaters in the section called Student Academic Responsibility. Adjudication of cheating cases is handled either individually by faculty members or by a committee within each college or school. Committee membership includes elected faculty members and students. The committee makes recommendations for punishment of persons found guilty of cheating. Punishment ranges from a failing grade in the course to suspension from the university. Disposition of cases can then be referred, if a com mittee's recommendation is appealed, to university President William Patterson or campus court. James Campbell, vice president for student attains, said few cases of cheating come before these committees. Apparently anv cases arising are settled between the professor and the student. This is the best method of punishment for a first offense. SEX AIM ARE CO! A OUDoE FaMiuY Vi mx t^e inkwokks r '"1 ( Am ii'tf w UAMtJUUU George Morris Editor Mickey Trimarchi Karen ; News Editor Editorial Catherine Thrift Bob King Bill Acr ft It J mi/c d ri i fnr A ? ! Ai >n ?/ n? 1/^331 . nu iviouoyci bpOT Mitch Alyce Kozma GeneGaillard Sail Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor Asst. Sp Marguerite Ryan Susan Paquet Lhuc Graduate Assistant Production Manager Entertai TME GAMECOCK welcome* letters from its readers. Letters should be limited subject and a maximum of 300 words. They must be signed with the writer's Pseudonyms or other aliases will not be used, but the writer's name will be circumstances warrant. To assist us in verifying th? identity of writers, pie your mailing address and a telephone number where you can be reached. Pie class standing and major, also! We reserve the right to edit all letters, not for < to meet our space limitations. Address: Campus Opinion, The Gamecock, * lii5iCol"mhl<1's c 2y?08 Iaa miimi yyiy uw puim However, knowledge of the numbers of cheating cases may be limited if professors do not report cases to the college's committee. When professors fail to report their action against a cheater there is no way for another professor to judge whether a student has committed a first or second onense. A systematic cheater is best punished by a committee, rather than an individual, and if past offenses are not recorded, cheaters could conceivably graduate undetected. Accordingly, professional schools are particularly interested in retaining the power to punish cheaters. Carolina does not need a reputation for graduating professional The Gamecock Opinion rn ? n i* ' i i iii in > tt1111 i.i.iitrrrrgrmttt-irntttm him 1 n i i m n i d violence 0 4in& back._.. ?j?i overruled q, EWino Hours ! Emphasis on recy< Whilaker *. T? the *'<lltor: Page Editor Patricia Eleazer's article "Company Buys I Cans," which appeared in the November 15 issu Baker the Gamecock, served a useful purpose in drav ts Editor atten ion to the aluminum recycling ce Sherwood operated by Budweiser of Columbia. Howevei / wi\son should have been made more clear that orts Editors recycling center accepts all kinds of s< aluminum and not just cans. A batch of alumini k Cromer 1 will deliver to tne recycling center tnis week, lment Editor instance, contains an interesting assortmen aluminum kitchen utensils, TV dinner trays, to a single dine cans, aluminum foil, and aluminum wir (rue name. well as aluminum beverage cans. iselnclucte The article also implies that aluminum recyt >se include is primarily aimed at reducing litter in the 1 dtawm-'a! scape. The truth is, promoting aluminum recyc as an "anti-litter" program is a brain-child ol ? < isnea individuals who have cheated on their exams. It is up to students to report cases of cheating to their professors. Campbell said most professors will not approach a student for cheating unless he or she has physical evidence of the student's guilt. With help from con : ^4 1 e - :_i~a. i ~ i l\ scienuuus siuueiiu>, proiessors nugui ue auiu iu caicu muse f students whose cheating is not always evident to the professor. Bragging about cheating is not an unheard of topic of discussion at Carolina. Students who fail to report cheating are ultimately cheating themselves. I TSr* has a inst svstom fnr nnnishiric rhpatprs T i>t's nw it Toilets pose A 'dangling' ? problem J To the Editor: In the wake of a recent dissatisfying trip to a latrine of the Thomas Cooper Library, I would like to recall some of America's finest historical hours. "All men are created equal . . . and with ( i u certain inalienable rights," says n the Declaration of Independence. WAT MiruT Do ^ese r*ghts preclude the rml I llun I comfort of those of us who being ET THE KIDS inches below six feet tall (and UAT V \ M lacking long legs) have to bear ten t>MC ft 1N to twenty minutes of abnormal TTjr- | bowel movements oecause me I HE, nv/W^H , elevation of that seat makes our y. legs dangle like a child's in a high \ f chair. Would Benjamin Franklin / / (being a short man himself) | condone such injustices as W depriving America's short people iy of The Thinker's (Le Penseur, for I French revolutionaries) pose I which is well known for its quick stimulation of the duodenum. I // 1 think not. Therefore, I ask in the \l memory of William Standard, the much debunked inventor of the j // porcelain toilet, that Mr. Brunton 1 A' aim his next quest in the direction ^ a /r of the aforementioned problem. A# /' o l w u:? J (/ A* oiaiiumg uciuit; ins iiiumicu yj masterpieces, all five of them (in (r various shapes and sizes), StanV dard was heard to remark, "Let the restroom remain the last bastion of democracy and the toilet the last threshold against discrimination." Until his words ftshall ring in the catacombs of Ml Thomas Cooper Library, I suggest that anyone under five-ten take ^ V\ their books with them when ven- w turing into a stall amid the rush of last minute cramming lest you lose precious learning time. DnuTi^n nnniMcnM engineering sophomore -lina needs rlnrif\/irm _? / v Ised beverage and container industries. They find it extremely self serving. You can, after all, convine veniently shift the blame to the slobs among us who nter persist in littering. This little tactic distracts at * tention from the fact that it is energy conservation the which offers the powerful argument for aluminum recycling. It takes about 20 times more energy to ' i produce an aluminum beverage can from ' q 111 rvi ini lm a,??a / \ *' !A jor ?m..>n.ui.i we vurtUAiit*; man 11 uoes 10 recycle an i existing aluminum can. If the litter problem were to sar- disappear overnight, recycling aluminum would e as therefore still make sense. It makes even better sense to replace aluminum beverage containers ling returnakle glass containers, since the energy and- savings are very substantial. plJ? ROBERT I.JANISKEE assistant professor of geography 1