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Recent murders won't deter Florida spring breakers By College Press Service In 1993, officials estimate thai Daytona Beach attracted aboul Tourism officials in Florida said 200,000 students during the threecollege students are expected to week spring break period in March again flood the state for this year's and April, and Heddy said she spring break despite the murders of expects about the same number tc nine foreign tourists in 1993. show up this year. ^L ' "4 1-I11I-. TnKn none r\ tbo nriH C 1 I1C IUUI1SI Killings, Wiiivn ? vim v ano ui uiv x ivuuc occurred across the state from an Tourism Association said he think? interstate reststop in the rural that college students face the same Panhandle to hundreds of miles amount of danger in Florida a? away in Miami, caused many they do on their campuses, sc European tourists to think twice crime in the state shouldn't be i before traveling to the Sunshine factor in whether they will visit. State. "College people are pretty sharj That apparently isn't the case for people," he said. "I think they arc college students, at least in the aware that they're in no greate eyes of state tourism officials. danger in Florida than where thei "It won't have any bearing what- campuses are located. I doubt seri soever," said Suzanne Heddy, vice ously what we've gone througl president of special events and will affect spring break unles: tourism for the Daytona Beach there is another attack on a visi Chamber of Commerce. "Young tor." people think that they are inde- He said most college student structible. Spring break is such a stay in a "pretty well defined" are; phenomenon that it (crime) super- where "the partying takes place." sedes any type of consideration "I don't think they're going t< about not going." be getting in areas where they wil She said most college students be in danger," Evans said usually travel in groups of friends "They're in more danger of a pret and "will not be in the same type ty severe sunburn or hangover thai of situations that would put them being mugged." in jeopardy." Scientifically Speaki Save now on Sharp's best sellin< Student Scientifics! REG $1999 ^ SALE! ? $1699 Calc with Si EL-506G Advanced Scientific A Calculator ^ J 7 storage memories and last answer memory Direct Algebraic Logic (DAL) #EL-5( to simplify entries V 1048 7.93? On Campus Productions. All Rights Reserved. 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Students admit to program for class, cheating at the Massachusetts Institute of Almost 80 percent c Technology, but they say there's too many gray they had cheated at soi areas about what is considered academic dishon- years by either collabc esty, a survey said. copying someone else's Students said blatant dishonesty such as Almost 70 percent s cheating on an exam is wrong, but they had homework at least om 1 mixed opinions about collaborating and sharing they misrepresented or ' homework assignment answers. In fact, 56 per- tory report or research \ cent of the students surveyed said thev were cent admitted to cop * confused about what constitutes academic dis- homework assignment t ) honesty. According to Norma The survey, conducted by the MIT the study, the surpri* Colloquium Committee, found that almost 45 cheat, but which stud percent said copying homework that would not there's a perception tha be graded wasn't considered cheating. Another grades through dishone: 45 percent said it was trivial, and 10 percent "Some people think labeled it as serious cheating. students who cheat, b Students were divided about whether it was McGaver said. "It's th< l ! DEAN continued from page 1 s educators around the country, U.S. Department of the Army a specifically presenting workshops Behavioral Research Review for the Council of College of Arks Committee, and for professional a and Sciences on academic leader- journals including the "Journal of 1 ship and the recruitment and reten- Experimental Child Psychology", tion of minority faculty. Lefton "Journal of Experimental also has served as a reviewer for Psychology" and "Perception & ti the National Science Foundation Psychophysics." Biomedical Review Committee, the Lefton earned his undergraduate ing^.. "ftpr udent Scientific :atistics lations statistics B $1499 NLE! 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McGaver ^sophomores, not ftrsl-year stuaid they collaborated on dents, are more likely to cheat. :e, 45 percent admitted "There seems to be more stress because that's fudged data in a labora- the year they pick their major," she said. >aper, and almost 60 per- The survey was commissioned after a cheatying another student's ing scandal occurred on the campus in 1990. o be graded. The scandal occurred when 79 of 250 students McGaver, a co-author of taking Introduction to Computers and >e wasn't that students Engineering Problem Solving were found to ents are cheating since . . . ? . . . . . . ? , . have cheated on a homework assignment, t some students get good * , ? ? st means Students defended themselves by saying thai it's the best and brightest cheating in one form or another was rampant >ut that's not the case," across the campus. Many of the students said ; students with academic they didn't think they had done anything wrong. 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