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Personal digital
assistants
Under the guise of us
ing their PDAs as calcu
lators, students are able
to access stored informa
tion to help them cheat
on their exams. Math
formulas, important
dates in history, Spanish
vocabulary words and
the difference between
real business theory and
Keynesian economics
can all be tucked away in
a discreet corner of your
books and upload them
onto their PDAs.
Cell phones
With worldwide cell
phone sales topping
423.4 million units in
2002, many college
students have latched
on to the wireless
phone trend.
Although cell phones
have made it easier to
keep in touch with far
away folks, they've also
made it easier for students
to cheat.
Friends who are taking
an exam together but sit
on opposite sides of
the room can share an
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swers through text mes
saging.
And the solitary
cheater can save limited
amounts of information
into his or her phone
and discreetly refer to it
while taking a test.
PDA's
memo
ry, ready to
pop up when you
need it.
For those students who
are even more technologi
cally savvy, they can take
actual digital pictures of
pages from their text
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"There are so many things that these
students are noticing and writing
about," Briston said. "When you look
at the papers of a president there are cer
tain things that you always expert. But
they're finding the unexpected. They're
finding issues and ideas that we didn't
know were there and if they're finding
new issues, you can just imagine what
the next researchers are going to find.
That's the beauty in what they're doing
and that's why this start is exciting."
Briston was one of the speakers,
along with current University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer and Vice Pres
ident for Administration Dan
Williams, who spoke to the class
about the project.
Students began their research by
looking at the University during the
protest of April 1970, when National
Guard troops stormed the campus
and used tear gas on activists staging
a sit-in at Johnson Hall to protest the
draft and the Vietnam War. They
looked at the actions of Robert D.
Clark and media coverage of protests,
and compared the campus to other
politically active campuses through
out the '70s.
To do their research they combed
the University and former Oregon
Gov. Tom McCall's archives and ex
amined past editions of the Emerald
and The Register-Guard.
"(They) succeeded beyond my
wildest dreams," said Suzanne Clark,
who is Robert D. Clark's daughter.
"The level of collaborative research is
really unique."
Students created two projects for
the class. The first was a 20-page pa
per examining and summarizing the
primary source documents they
found relating to their thesis; those
were delivered to the archivist. Sec
ondly, they each wrote a 15- to 25
page paper giving their own perspec
tives on the information they
uncovered.
In the end, many of the students
were surprised by what they found.
Judith Friedman, a Spanish major
at the University, said in the course of
her research she was surprised to read
so many moderate letters from stu
dents and protesters to University ad
ministrators. She added that the his
torical perspective often shows a
prevalence of radical beliefs.
Katie Drueding, a history major at
the University, said she was surprised
to find that a lot of the primary
sources, like letters and newsletters,
took a light, even self-mocking tone
to their political beliefs. She said sec
ondary sources often portrayed them
as all being serious or sober in nature.
Rose Connolly, an economics ma
jor at the University, said she was sur
prised to see how often Clark re
sponded to letters sent to his office
and to newspapers.
At the end of the presentation,
Robert D. Clark, the subject of the
many of the students' papers, thanked
them for their work.
"You did a great job," he said, ad
dressing the class. "I'm very deeply
appreciative for your work on this
project."
Suzanne Clark said that because
the trial run of the class was a success,
they plan to do it again next year.
In the meantime she and Frank are
working on a biography of Robert D.
Clark's life.
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faith reporter
atjaredpaben@daiiyemerald.com.
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