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An independent newspaper http://www,dailyemerald.com Portland State visits McArthur Page 5 Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 105, Issue 66 meaM«i Using innovative technology and old-school tricks, some students maximize their opportunities to cheat The birth of the Internet has been hailed as one of the greatest innovations of the century, cre ating a global society rich in access to informa tion. But it has also spawned an unwanted nui sance in the academic community — a faster, easier way for students to cheat. A horde of paper mills and cheating Web sites have taken root on the information superhighway, beckoning way ward students to step off the path of academic in tegrity. Web sites such as http://www.papers4less.com and http://www.schoolsucks.com offer to sell term papers to students, and they make no secret about it (the slogan of Papers4Less is "The mar ketplace for students' papers.") "It's so tempting" said Laurie Jones Neighbors, a faculty consultant with the Teaching Effective ness Program. "It's all over the Internet. It's easy for students to cheat." Anne Laskaya, director of the composition program at the University, said she has seen a dra matic increase in the number of plagiarism cases during the past three years, which she suspects is due in part to the Internet. Student Judicial Affairs Director Chris Loschia vo said Internet plagiarism is by far the most common method students use to cheat in the cases he sees. Loschiavo said many students ille gally cut and paste information from the Internet because they believe it's difficult for professors to spot this type of plagiarism. PART 2 OF 5 Monday: Why students cheat Today: Ways students cheat Wednesday: Repercussions of cheating Thursday: Ways to stop cheating Friday: Profile of a cheater He added that the Internet isn't the only tech nological innovation making it easier to cheat, however. Many students now have a high-tech ar senal at their disposal. For example, cell phones and PDAs can be used to store crucial informa tion needed during exams and are less obvious than paper cheat sheets. But for the technologically challenged, there is still a smorgasbord of traditional cheating meth ods to choose from. Loschiavo said some of garden-variety ways students cheat include collaboration on home work assignments, peeking at others' answers during an exam, sending a friend to class to take an exam and getting access to exam questions be fore the test. Business Professor Bill Daley said cheating oc curs almost exclusively on homework assign ments in his classes, adding that he easily catches between 12 and 20 students per term for this of fense. He said a common tactic students use is waiting by the printer, taking someone else's Turn to CHEATING, page 3 STORIESBY JENNIFER MARIE BEAR/ PHOTOGRAPHY BY ADAM AMATO/ DESIGN BY SEAN HANSON HIGH-TECH CHEATING Laptops Anyone who ever wanted to know any thing about anything can find it on the Web, and students are using this to their advantage. Students can use the Internet to share home work via e-mail, cut and paste information off the Web or buy a paper from a paper mill Web site. Rather than actually reading a book for Eng lish class, students can log on to http://www.antistudy.c om or http://www.pinkmon key.com and peruse the high-tech version of CliffsNotes. Turn to TECH, page 8 Class explores three decades of UO politics Students in the ‘University in Peace and War' class went through the school’s archives, beginning with the April 1970 sit-in protest By Jared Paben News Reporter Last spring, Professors David Frank and Suzanne Clark hatched an idea — they'd create a class that would utilize the University's huge archives, many of which hadn't been tapped in years, on a topic that students would find especially interesting. They wanted a class in which students could do real research rather than have the professor deliver the material. By tall term 2003, the first Robert D. Clark Honors College "University in Peace and War" class was born. The class delivered its findings to University Archivist 1 leather Briston in a packed Robert D. Clark 1 lonors College Library on Monday afternoon. The honor college's namesake, former Uni versity President Robert D. Clark, sat in the front row. The class delved into the University's role in political move ments by examining the campus during the protests of the 1970s and comparing it to the current political atmosphere. Students chose topics ranging from the role of the media in covering student protests to the protesters themselves and ad ministrative reactions. I Turn to HISTORY, page 8 Doctor visits UO to speak about stopping suicide The director of the suicide-prevention program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Paul Joffe, will talk about student suicide By Ali Shaughnessy Senior News Reporter Suicide — it's a word that touches the lives of many University students, including Jessica, a University student who didn't want her last name printed. When she was 16 years old, Jessica tried to kill herself by swal lowing approximately 200 pain-relief pills. "1 woke up one morning and realized 1 didn't want to go on with my life," she said. "I thought the world would be better off without me." Today, Dr. Paul Joffe, director ot die suicide-prevention program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be speak ing at noon in the EMU Gumwood Room about college students who commit suicide. The lecture is free and ends at 1 p.m. The University of Illinois is known for having a unique suicide prevention program. When a student threatens or attempts sui cide, they are required to attend four sessions with a counselor. If a student refuses to see a counselor, they may be forced to leave the school. None of the 1,670 University of Illinois students who threat ened or attempted suicide later committed suicide since the poli cy took effect 19 years ago. Turn to SUICIDE, page 4 WEATHER INSIDE NEXT ISSUE tow 42 HIGH 51 Campus buzz.4 Classifieds.7 Commentary..2 Crossword.7 Horoscope.7 Sports.5 Joseph Bechard bids farewell
