Emerald
Vol 83, No 55
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, November 19,1981
Students meet with Olum;
ask questions, give advice
By HARRY ESTEVE
Of Vm Emerald
Students threw advice, criticism and a
lot of questions to University Pres Paul
Olum Wednesday during his first student
convocation of the school year
One of the stickiest questions came
from law student Ellen Mendoza, who
questioned Olum on the use of campus
facilities by private businesses
Mendoza expressed concern over Bio
Dynamics Research and Development
Corporation s use of Gerlinger Hall as an
office and research laboratory
She asked Olum if he would apply the
same principles" to the company as he
did to the Pacific Northwest Research
Corporation Even before the PNRC,
which is currently housed in the law
school, announced its decision to move
off campus, Olum indicated he wanted it
moved
Olum denied Mendoza's claim that Bio
Dynamics was operating from Gerlinger
Hall Bio Dynamics which donated
several pieces of equipment to the phy
sical education program, list its
business address as 1200 High St in
Eugene
However, Mendoza said she failed to
find the company at its listed address,
and when she phoned her calls were
referred to physical education prof
Barry Bates, whose office is Room 340
Gerlinger Hall
Mendoza called the listed address a
phony."
"Your criticism is serious," Olum said,
and he stressed that Mike Ellis, head of
the physical education department, has
been investigating Bio Dynamics since a
newspaper article pointed out its con
nection with the University
"If they are in fact located in Gerlinger
Hall, we will in fact ask them to get out,"
Olum said
He said he would continue the policy
f
Photo by Bob Baker
University Pres Paul Olum spoke to more than 75 students Wednesday at his first
student convocation of the year.
of not allowing private for-profit cor
porations to operate on the University
campus
“If we have been misled, we will take
care of it," he said
Another interesting question con
cerned the low rent paid by athletic
director Rick Bay, who lists his address
as 2315 McMorran St — more commonly
known as the University president's
mansion
Apparently Bay pays $200 per month
to rent some rooms in the otherwise
unoccupied mansion
Olum has chosen not to live in the
house — provided rent-free to University
presidents — since it was vacated by
William Boyd in June 1980 The four
floor residence is used for meetings and
parties, Olum said
"We re doing a little better with the
$200," he said
Several students at the convocation
wanted to know how the University
would decide which schools to shut
down if it were forced to do so
Olum said the decision would come
after a series of hearings with faculty and
students The criteria for elimination
would include the “relative uniqueness”
of a school, its quality, financial condi
tion and its ' degree of interaction with
the rest of the University .”
One student suggested the University
bring in volunteers from the community
to perform some of the services and
teach some of the classes being offered
Members of the Eugene Society for
Natural History and the Eugene Mothers
Club already have offered to help keep
the University's Museum of Natural His
tory open, said Provost Richard Hill
"We re looking for all that kind of help
we can get,” Hill said
Dormitory
thefts rise
Robberies in six different dormitories
Tuesday are just part of an escalation in
thefts that’s occurred during the past
week, according to Sgt Rick Allison of
the Eugene Police Department.
"We need to do something to combat
the problem, and we re not making any
headway,” Allison says
Single robberies were reported
Tuesday in Bean East, Stafford, Morton
and DeCou, he says, and two robberies
were reported in Moore Missing proper
ty includes wallets, purses and “other
small items.”
Police have several suspects in the
robberies, which generally take place
between 3:30 and 6:30 am, he says,
although another rash of robberies
happened during the afternoon in Mor
ton complex
The thieves entered occupied dorm
rooms mostly through unlocked doors
and windows, but a lock pick may have
been used in some of the crimes
Several students woke up and dis
covered the thieves standing over them
or reaching in the window, he says,
adding that at feast one thief has re
turned more than once
"I think our burglars are very profes
sional — cool, calm and collected ”
Thieves are getting into the buildings
in spite of "thousands of dollars" spent
last year to make the dorms more secure,
Allison says. He says students, not iocks,
are the problem this year.
"No amount of handware is going to
prevent crimes unless the students lock
their windows and doors," he says.
Students should purchase inexpen
sive alarms sold at a number of local
discount stores, including the University
Bookstore, Allison says A device that
sells for about $13 both secures the door
and sends out a loud whistle
In addition, wallets and other valuables
shouldn't be left in top drawers and on
windowsills for thieves to grab them
without even searching, he says
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Cheating by students increases, prof says
By STEVE KNIGHT
Of Itie Emerald
It's the night before the big
midterm, and there are three
or four chapters in
anthropology still to be read
Marked for academic extinc
tion, the desperate student
arranges for a good friend,
who happens to be a multiple
guess wizard, to substitute in
the anthropology exam
‘‘There's been a noticeable
increase in surrogate cheating
over the past year," says Ver
non Barkhurst, student con
duct coordinator and member
of the eight-person student
conduct committee
To combat this surge of
“ringers’’ in the classroom,
William Randolph, student
conduct committee chairer,
asked faculty with large
classes to require the display
of student identity cards dur
ing the test
Plagiarism, which includes
everything from bogus term
papers to "looking over
someone's shoulder during an
exam," is the most common
form of cheating at the
University, he says
As conduct coordinator,
Barkhurst metes out punish
ment and advice to students
accused of cheating, although
not all cases of academic
dishonesty reach his office
"A professor is free to im
pose academic sanctions as
long as the student admits
guilt," he says, adding that
most professors flunk
students on the disputed test
Dishonest students are sent
to Barkhurst’s office when
professors feel additional
“punitive" sanctions are
called for, Barkhurt says
One recent penalty was 120
hours of community service
Barkhurst says he usually tries
to provide punishment that
relates to the student's field of
study
Students who deny cheating
are provided with an attorney
(usually a third-year law
student) to argue their case
before a hearing officer
Of the 16 academic dishon
esty cases reported last year,
seven were dealt with by the
faculty, six through the con
duct coordinator’s office, and
two via a hearing officer One
case is still pending
The two students provided
with attorneys were found
guilty, Barkhurst says, adding
that most academic dishones
ty cases ‘are pretty obvious”
and not difficult to prosecute
In addition to academic or
punitive sanctions, all
students found guilty of chea
ting — whether by a professor
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or a hearing officer — have a
record of the incident filed at
Barkhurst's office
The “negative notation” is
kept there until the student
graduates, he says