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e o e .0 10 B MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. ORE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER It, 190 Cheating by Students By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Cheating has become com monplace in ' American ichools. Many students pro fess to see nothing wrong in it. Some teachers tacitly con done it by doing little or nothing to prevent it. If you are shocked by these statements - as you certainly should be - you can easily test their Validity. Simply ask a few students. Most students are quite can Bati Performed Miracle Among Singing Wires It was only starlight-there was no moon in the sky. The little cafe sat at the top of the hill, ablaze with light. The hill was locally called a mountain by the natives, one of a series of high elevations that stretched across several stales. It was late at night. Only a couple of trucks were park' ed alongside the restaurant, A lone driver came up the long road and parked beside the trucks. The driver dis mounted, stretched and start ed across the lot toward the lighted building. Being of an observant na ture, he detected many rapid ly moving shapes against the star-lighted sky. By their numbers and rapid zigzag flight he quickly identified them as bats, cruising the night sky in their hunt for flying insects. The man took up a position with his back against a tree, to watch. Performing Miracle Nothing unusual at all about the bats being there in great numbers; on several oc- - casions he had investigated the many caves in the vicin ity and had,' many times, found numbers of bats both In winter hibernation and on their summer flights; but here on the top of a hill he was actually observing one of the mysteries of bat life, for these animals were performing a miracle and accomplishing it , in a matterrof-fact way. ' Alongside the highway and running parallel to its wind ing length were veritable "curtains", of telephone and electric wires. The man count ed the crossarms on the near est pole. There were 12 of them and on each crossarm were 10 wires, not any two of which were over six inches from another. - This, totaled at least 120 wires, a regular curtain of them, but a curtain that ran lengthwise for many miles. He estimated the "depth" of the wire curtain to be at least 12 feel. Nearly Invisible In the dim light from the tars the wires were nearly Invisible to the human ob server on the ground 20 feet 8 Vote for a Strong Foreign Policy World pence Is our foremost problem. My oppon ents record of embracing Castro and his Cuban revolution Is of distressing concern to every Ore gon family. I shall work for peace In a forceful, proper way. Vote for a Balanced Budget sWe can expect tax relief only when Congress re turns to a sound policy of Federal spending. I will do my utmost in this behalf. Vote for a "Working" Congressman I will devote full time to the activities of govern ment as It affects you. I will not, except as an authorized member of a Congressional Commit tee, meddle In the affaire of foreign countries. did about the prevalence of academic fraud in U.S. educa tion at all levels from elemen tary school through college Few Have Moral Objection A high school in the Wash ington, D.C., area asked its students how they felt about cheating. A slight majority of them said they disapproved of "habitual" cheating, but only a very few expressed any moral objection to casional" cheating. When as sured their answers would be Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Wafkins below them. Night-flying in sects of a dozen or more kinds were literally filling the sum mer air. Very carelessly, or because they had no sense at all, they were flying in and between the maze of tightly stretched, singing wires. And in rapid pursuit of them were the feeding bats. With justified astonishment, the man watched the tiny, flying mammals swoop In and between the wires at full speed; with reckless abandon the bats tipped sideways to allow their membraneous wings to pass between the humming wires. For an hour he watched; never once did one of the fast- flying animals as much as lightly touch a wire. He re luctantly left the scene some what perplexed as well as awed, for here was a flexible and an elastic maneuverabil ity and flight control by fly ing mammals, in and among the "singing wires," beyond our human power to compre hend. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Russian-Expelled Tourists Head West Waidhaus, Germany - (UPI1- Wcst German border police said today two Americans ex pelled from the Soviet Union alter one was convicted on spy charges are believed head ing for this Iron Curtain cross ing point. ' The two Americans, Mark I. Kamlnsky, 32, of Jefferson Township, Mich., and Harvey C. Bennett, 34, Bath, Maine, were understood to be motor ing across Czechoslovakia and to have stopped for the night at Pllscn, about 75 miles from here, police said. The expluslon of Kamlnsky and Bennett was announced Friday , by the Russians after repeated Inquires from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow about their whereabouts. The two disappeared two months ago while touring the Soviet Union together. SOFT METAL v Pltlsburgh-The metal lith ium is so soft it can be easily cut with a pocket knife blade. confidential, 46 per cent readily admitted that they had cheated on examinations more than five times in the past year. This survey was conducted in a large public high school of superior academic rating in a suburban community populated by respectable, middle - class, church -going families. Educators say that the situation in the average high school is certainly no better, and may be consider ably worse. Academic dishonesty has Said To also become a casually-accept ed thing in higher education. Studies in several typical col leges indicate that from 60 to 90 per cent of the undergrad uates condone cheating "when possible", or "when neces sary." School Teacners Customers ' . A New York grand jury re vealed earlier this year that many graduate students have been hiring professional ghostwriting agencies to pre pare their theses for the M.A., Ph.D., or other advanced de grees. The grand jury's most 1 VA R j;j I 1 : I. I U-jame"" Be Commonplace in American appalling discovery was that a "substantial number" of the customers for this racket are school teachers. Why do so many of today's students - and even some of their teachers - take a laissez faire attitude toward cheat ing? In earlier generations, there were students who cheated. But most of them did so with a deep sense of guilt, and with full recognition that they were doing something which is morally equivalent to ly ing and stealing. Many mod n 7 .eg i.i I -I V.1 v. w-. : a v. pjj ern students apparently do not know, or do not care, that cheating is a clear transgres sion of two of the Ten Com mandments which supposedly form the basic ethical code of Judco-Christian civilization. But this observation merely pushes the question one step further. Why have today's youth developed this moral blind spot? Answer Suggested The Rev. Andrew Greeley, a Chicago priest -sociologist, suggests an answer. In an article in the Catholic maga VA ii zine, Sign, Fr. Greeley says: "Cheating by young people is merely part of an emerging national pattern. .Young peo ple practice the morality they have learned from the actions of their parents. 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