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_Carolina News__- _ Jan. 31 • Possession of Marijuana With Intent to Distribute. Distributing Near School. Roost Complainant notified USCPD that subject was found in possession of four plastic bags containing a green leafy sub stance believed to be marijuana. The re sponding officer went to the scene, where the subject admitted that he had been in possession of the four bags and their con terns. 1 ne respond ing officer placed the subject under arrest and the subject was transported to USCPD and charged with intent to dis tribute and distrib uting near a school. The evidence was secured in a locker. • Breach of Trust. McMaster College. The complainant said that a subject was issued a camera to complete a course for the fall semester and the subject has yet to return the equipment, worth about $270. Complainant also said that he had contacted the subject on numerous oc casions and has Med to retrieve the cam era. The complainant also said that he would take further action and notify stu dent affairs. Jan. 29 • Larceny of Purse. Thomas Cooper Li brary. Complainant said that while look ing for a book, persons unknown stole a beige leather purse and a green wallet containing various credit and identifica tion cards. The investigation continues. • Larceny of a License Tag. Pendleton Street Garage. Complainant said that per sons unknown removed the license tag from complainant’s vehicle. No damage was noted. Jan. 28 •Grand Larceny of Motor Vehicle. 1100 Wheat St. Victim said someone stole vic tim’s 1991 buigundy, four-door Honda Accord at the above location. The in vestigation continues. • Larceny 01 ui cycle. 902 Sumter St., Rutledge. Vic tim said unknown persons removed a silver BMX-style bike frame, hand breaks and bike chain from a bike rack by unknown means. The bicycle was chained and se cured by the vie tim. The investigation continues. • Simple Possession of Marijuana. 2200 Harden St. During routine patrol, the re sponding officer observed the subjects’ vehicle traveling southbound on Hard en Street and bearing an expired S.C. tag. The responding officer initiated a traffic stop and noticed a strong odor believed to be marijuana upon approaching the subjects’ vehicle. The first subject exit ed the vehicle from the rear and con sented search produced one clear plas tic bag containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana (from the sub ject’s pants pocket). The first subject was arrested for simple possession of mari juana, and the substance was entered in to an evidence locker. PORT ^ | ompiled by ~ Patrick Rathbun Elections from page A1 allowed to campaign in any building with a computer lab inside on election day. “You can’t be in that building at all,” Washington said at the senatorial candi dates’ meeting. Although he said that candidates can go into the buildings for class. “You can go to class, you can go to your dorm room,” Washington said at the executive meeting. The commission also discussed the schedule of this year’s elections, includ ing commission meetings at 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the SG of fice. The executive debates are scheduled for noon Feb. 10 on Greene Street. Elec tions will be from 9 a.m. Feb. 16 to 5 p.m. Feb. 17. Run offs are scheduled for the following week. Students' rudeness in the classroom not a new trend by Christine Tatum College Press Exchange Chicago — Someone answers a cell phone while someone else, knife and fork in hand, dives into a blue-plate spe cial. Just down the way, three more peo ple are passing the day’s newspaper around, eager to complete the crossword puzzle, and a woman is painting her fin gernails. Hubbub in the student union? The dining hall? Nope. Try the classroom. Complaints about society’s loss of civility are nothing new. For years, professors have said students are disre spectful, even downright rude. Heck, in the 13 th century, professors at the Uni versity of Bologna were so afraid of stu dents —who beat them up if they didn’t like their grades — that they formed unions to protect themselves. And then in the 1820s, students at Yale Uni versity staged the “Bread and Butter” re bellion. Upset with their difficult class es, they took to throwing food and silverware at their instructors. Those incidents made history books, but many of today’s professors — and their students—say students’ rudeness and lack of consideration is so com monplace it’s scarcely worth a mention in the campus newspaper. These days, actions once considered worthy of sus pension, such as napping in the back of a room or whispering throughout a class, are mild affronts that happen every day. Professors say they’re now dealing with students who hurl profane insults in class and even threaten violence. A case in point: One professor at Vir ginia Tech reported a voice mail message he received from a student. “You fat fuck with yellow teeth!” the student shout ed. “You hump!” Her problem? She couldn’t resell her textbook. So, when and how did the deco rous world of academe disintegrate into this? It seems everyone has the answer for that: poor parenting, grade schools and religious groups falling down on the job, substance abuse and a myriad of media images. “We shout first and think later,” said Donna Halper, a journalism instructor at Emerson College. “And on TV, we pull out a gun and blow the other per son away. No wonder kids are confused Civility and courtesy are not valued the way they once were.” Agreed said Christopher Martin, a student at Truman College of Chicago. “Let’s blame it on the ’60s and its bra burning and candid freedom of expres sion,” he said “Then toss on top of that the ’90s and its lack of discipline in the home, parental fear of adolescents and the rebellious behavior that is often giv en a thumbs up by media.” The money students are paying for their education may also figure into the lack of civility many instructors sense, said Alan Deardorff, an economics pro fessor at the University of Michigan. “... They (students) are paying so much more, in real terms, for their ed ucation than students did years ago,” he said. “Therefore they feel more like cus tomers and less like students who ought to look up to us. That doesn’t bother me too much. But when they are rude to their fellow students and make it hard er for others to get their money’s worth, that does bother me.” Many instructors say they can over look incessant student chatter, but find other instances of rudeness and incon siderate behavior more difficult to ig nore. “Some students come to my office outside of office hours and just start talk ing without asking first if I have time to see them,” Deardorff said. “I do invite them to interrupt if my door is ajar, but to me, politeness still requires that you ask if a person, any person, has time to talk to you.” Jane Piliavin, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, said she didn’t take too kindly to undeigraduate students who last year called her by her first name without her suggesting or en couraging them to do so. “It was rather startling considering my age,” she said. Halper said she’s not fond of ringing cell phones. “If one goes off and interrupts us, I confiscate it,” she said “In most cases, students don’t do it on purpose; they jvist foigot to turn the bell off. But all it takes is one incident usually, and it seldom, if ever, happens again because I make a big deal out of it.” Though realizing they’ll probably never pinpoint the exact problems caus ing students’ egregious misbehavior — much less solve them — many univer sities are trying to prevent bad situations from getting worse. Student insolence among undeigraduate students got so bad at Vuginia Tech that the institution’s fac ulty senate established a “Climate Com mittee” to explore the issue. At Montana State University, the problem grew so bad that the institution formed a task force to study disruptive classroom behavior, particularly in large classrooms, where professors say they have the hardest time maintaining stu dents’ attention. 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Dean, judges noted, said women’s soccer deserved consideration as a varsity sport because the players “would look cute running around in their soccer shorts.” The ruling is the latest twist in a case brought against LSU by two groups of ath letes who alleged to be said the universi ty violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 because it failed to offer women’s softball and soccer teams. The federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender at institutions re ceiving federal funds. The university said it intended to form the teams when the suit was filed and that it also had evidence that relatively few women were interested in playing the sports. In 1996, a federal district court judge, Rebecca Doherty, ruled that LSU had refused to adequately consider the abili ties of women on campus and that its fail ure to establish the women’s teams indeed violated Title EX. However, she stud the university had not intentionally discrim inated against the women. 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