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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. If the youth
of America is infected with
dishonesty, then it is merely
reflecting the sad state into
which the observation of the
Seventh and Eighth Com
mandments ('Thou shalt not
lie' and 'Thou shalt not steal')
has sunk in the whole na
tion." Fr. Greeley documents his
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tify a widespread winking at
dishonesty by an institution
which is supposed to be help
ing to mold the characters of
the young.
But even if the schools do
their part -which many of
them have not been doing -they
can't carry the hod
alone. As Fr. Greeley points
out, "Such reforms will not
be sufficient unless parents,
the most important transmit
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