At Faculty Senate meeting
Plagarism motion fails again
A proposal to change policy for
handling plagiarism and
cheating cases failed again
Wednesday to gain faculty ap
proval as an appropriate means
for dealing with the problem.
The Faculty Senate declined to
give a favorable recom
mendation to a motion which
would take cheating cases out of
the hands of Student Court, and
place them under the jurisdiction
of the Scholastic Deficiencies
Committee (SDC).
The motion, originally
presented last spring by its
sponsor, management professor
Edwin Beal, has been rejected by
the Faculty Senate in several
different forms.
After amending the motion at
Wednesday’s meeting, the body
still voted against recom
mending to the general faculty
that it be approved. Instead, the
senate will propose that the
faculty refer the motion to an ad
hoc committee composed of a
student and faculty member
from each of two committees,
SDC and the Student Conduct
Committee (SCC).
The proposal, as amended by
the senate, states that an in
structor who finds evidence of
possible cheating or plagiarism
may report it to the SDC. The
committee may then place the
student on academic probation
“accompanied by such conditions
as it may determine.”
Beal’s form of the motion
states that the filing of a report
by an instructor would
automatically have the effect of
placing the student on academic
probation.
The SDC could refer cases to
the Office of Student Affairs for
disciplinary action under the
University Conduct Code, ac
cording to the motion.
Currently, cases of plagiarism
and cheating are handled by the
Student Court System and such
offenses carry a maximum
penalty of expulsion or suspen
sion from the University.
Beal told the senate Wednesday
that his motion would “recognize
cheating and plagiarism as a
deficiency in scholastic stan
dards. Terming the problem “an
academic matter,” he described
his proposal as a “remedial,
educational approach to the
problem rather than a punish
ment."
Donald DuShane, Dean of
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representing SDC, said that the
committee’s first reaction to the
proposal “was one of dismay.
They were aghast at the prospect
of this task being thrust on a
committee with no background to
handle it.”
The proposal involves the SDC
in setting up sanctions, said
DuShane, who added that the
committee was “exceedingly
reluctant to get involved in
judicial decision-making.”
DuShane agreed that several
problems exist in the current
methods of handling plagiarism
and cheating cases. “I think Mr.
Beal has a valid point that the
problem is not now being handled
at all on a University-wide
basis.”
He pointed out that very few
cases are reported and that there
is no central reporting agency
which could provide professors
with information on the number
of times a student had committed
such an offense.
Chapin Clark, head of SCC, also
agreeing that a problem exists,
told the Faculty Senate that the
conduct committee had con
sidered the motion th.it afternoon
and felt the matter should be
their responsibility.
“The machinery for dealing
with the problem exists under the
conduct system though currently
it’s not working effectively,” he
said. It was the concensus
Wednesday of the SCC, he added,
that “we (SCC) should tackle this
problem.”
Other faculty members, though
emphasizing they shared a
concern about the problem, found
other faults in the proposed
changes.
Robert Harris, head of the
architecture department, said
the motion enables a professor to
submit a report without the
student’s knowledge, and gives
the student no opportunity to
present his own evidence or
appeal the decision of the SDC.
Roland Bartel, head of the
English department, said he felt
the problem was “so complicated
any legislation on the subject
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