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USCJ • • • e 3) score- desbmc- to In 1948 da;n- RPI assorted on the th.e ·:;;tu- rechan- !ish- nse.con- hru! game another can tell r to the tl. The a ean who e Presi- A fra- may be may or may de- of the ;s pen- a ·mis- It is for en- just and re- adminis- to make possi- a N: y .. ,' '.;· (1 ,., ., .. ' -·;, ·l ' .. ~ ::~ •! ':1 ''· ~ 'I, . 'v, ' .·i .i i ., I 1 \•, l ., I i \ ' I ! i British Elections Page 2 VO'L, 8.9, No. :5 Two members of the Union College faculty have recently been elected to offices in professional societies, according to informa- tion now being compiled by the Public Relations Office for fue October issue of Union's \F'acuity News Briefs.\ Professor Harold W. Blbber of th:e Department of .Electrical Ezlgineering has been elected Chairman of the Committee on Professional ·Conduct .and Vice Chairman o:f the Board o0f Exam- iners of the Ameriean In~titute of Ellectrica;l Engineevs. .R..obert W. Schaefer, Assistant Pro:fessor of Cllemistry, was appointed Chair- man Qf the Membership a.nd Hos- pitality Committee, Eastern New York Section, Amerlcan :Chemical Society. • • StS Founded at Union 6ullege in 1877 SCH'EN ECTADY, ·N, Y .• O'CTO'BER 23, 1959 Hobart Preview Page 3 PRICE TEN CENTS Student Cribbing Considered by Prof.Niemeyer The editor of Conc&rdiensis has asked me whether I believe there is widespread academic dishon- esty at Union College. I know about student dishonesty only if it comes to my attention in. the form of a copied paper. Tll.e pre- pared crib brought to the examin- ation and the a.!lllwer copied from the next man are not generally a problem in the Department of English, since we give exams in which this kind of cheating is just not usefut Lru!t spring, how- ever, a number of long papers prepared outside of class and lifted word for 'Word from maga- zine articles showed up in some of the ·English courses. They were dealt with by the department and were not referred to tll.e Dis- cipline Committee. What con- cerns the Department now is how to prevent such cheating in the future. Some students when caught plead ignorance, saying they did not know this kind of copying is wrong. Although this seems to us a dubious plea, we at- tempt to mE'et it by circulating to freE<hmen a pamphlet discussing plaga.rism and setting down the principles of literary ethics. When he has read it, each mart signs a statement that he has. understood the pamphlet, and this statement is sent to the Dean's office, where it is presumably filed. This rou- tine -procedure leaves untouched the problem of dishonesty by iii- tent and necessarily does little to provide the sound moral climate in which alone an honor syatem can flourish. Carl Niemeyet•