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Academic Dishonesty Complaints Repor
Developmental 2%
Professional 6%
Graduate 6%
Freshman 9%
Soph . 21%
Junior 24%
Senior 32%
Source: Office
of Judicial
Programs
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By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
As you look over the test, you
don’t understand the questions,
much less know how to answer
them. But the person next to you is
flying through the test, and his
paper is wide open. There’s no way
the old professor in the front,
reading a newspaper, can catch
you cheating since you’re sitting in
the back, right?
Wrong! Last year the Student
Judiciary received 53 complaints of
academic dishonesty.
Although this number is down
from the 55 complaints in 1988, it
is up dramatically from all pre
vious years. The next closest year
was 1985 when 45 cases where re
ported.
While more cases are being re
ported, when the size of the Uni
versity and the number of tests
given are taken into account, there
is still cheating going unreported,
according to some.
Del Dunn, associate vice presi
dent of academic affairs, said the
number of cases depends on the
willingness of people to report sus
pected cheaters.
“A lot is not being reported, a lot
is not getting caught and some
people just don’t know how to re
port it,” said Student Affairs Coun
selor Roger Lee.
Professors turned in almost all
the cases, with only two students
turning in someone last year.
A demographic study of the aca
demic dishonesty cases heard ty
the Student Judiciary in 1989
showed a direct correlation be
tween class ranking and likelihood
to cheat.
Seniors were charged with aca
demic dishonesty more than three
times as often as freshmen.
The longer you stay here, the
more likely you are to cheat,” Lee
said.
Seniors comprised 32 percent of
the cases heard; juniors were next
with 24 percent; sophomores with
21 and freshman were the most
honest with only 9 percent. Grad
uate and professional students
each had 6 percent, while devel
opmental students made up only 2
percent.
Dunn said seniors might be
more likely to cheat because of in
creased pressure to make good
grades nearer to graduation.
Lee’s study found that most
people charged with cheating have
average grades. The study found
the average mean grade point av-
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UGA V to appear Saturday
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UGA V: Fills father’s paw-
prints this Saturday
By BETH VALINOTI
Staff Writer
Isn’t he adorable?
Don’t you want your picture
taken with him?
If you stick around until Sat
urday, you can witness the intro
duction of UGA V, a solid white
bullpup who is the University’s
new sports mascot, at Georgia
Bulldog Picture Day.
Picture Day is basically a fans
day, said Claude Felton, sports
information director.
The coaches and players are
there to do just about whatever
the fans want,” Felton said.
Head Football Coach Ray Goff,
his assistants and the team will
appear at the Butts-Mehre Heri
tage Hall practice fields to greet
an and be available for pictures
and autographs.
Saturday will be Goffs second
Picture Day, but the new celeb
rity is UGA V, who will appear in
Athens for the first time.
UGA V, officially registered as
“Magillicuddy Two,” was named
in honor of assistant athletic di
rector Dan Magill. The mascot
will welcome Bulldog fans three
weeks before the first game.
Frank Seiler, a Savannah at
torney whose has bred and raised
all University mascots beginning
with UGA I, said UGA V is a
"miracle puppy” because the
mating of UGA IV with UGA V*s
mother was not expected to be
successful.
UGA IV died on Feb. 26, 1990
from kidney failure just weeks
before his son, UGA V, was born
on March 6.
Seiler said UGA V has all of his
father’s characteristics.
"He’s a real fighter who loves
to bite ankles,” Seiler said. "We
just have to calm him down a
bit.”
UGA V will be initiated into
"Bulldog Country” within a few
days of the same age os UGA IV
was — yet another similarity be
tween father and son, Seiler said.
’He’s growing like a weed and
we expect him to be quite large,”
Seiler said. “He’s everything we
look for in a mascot.
“He’s the youngest, so we hope
he will have the longest tenure as
mascot,” Seiler said.
Georgia Bulldog Picture Day is
free and open to the public from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Measles Follow-up
Epidemic costs UGA time, money
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
Copy Editor
The measles epidemic is over,
with the final total of diagnosed
cases topping 45 and total esti
mated cost in the hundreds of thou
sands.
Figures released by the Office of
Public Information at the Univer
sity summarized the total number
of people vaccinated at 23,313, and
3,032 proved immunity.
Tom Jackson, public information
director said, The funding for the
program came out of the budget for
supplies and equipment. There is
no special reserved money in case
of an emergency, like the measles.”
The cost of the vaccine paid by
the State Division of Public Health
was $353,520. Extra medical
equipment, copying, telephone and
temporary personnel was $9,405.
The hours expended to deal with
the measles crisis totaled 7,923,
combining the offices and organiza
tions of the health center, Office of
Public Information, Administra
tive data processing, Pharmacy
College, personnel services, Phys
ical Plant and student volunteers.
Many University departments
including Public Safety, Physical
Plant and Personnel expended con
siderable operations funds in serv
ices provided in-kind, diverted
from normal programs funds of
these departments.
“We had a considerable amount
of effort diverted from other pro
grams, but in terms of actual out-
of-pocket expenses we came out
fairly well,” said Allan Barber, vice
president for business and finance.
Summer school students, faculty
and staff had to be inoculated like
everyone in the spring because out
breaks were still a threat, said
Florence Winship, assistant di
rector for physical health.
The University System Board of
The cost of the vaccine
paid by the State
Division of Public
Health was $353,520.
Extra medical
equipment, copying,
telephone and
temporary personnel
was $9,405.
Regents has not passed a resolu
tion requiring students, faculty or
staff to prove immunization for fall
quarter. The Regents are looking
into a system-wide immunization
program that will be discussed
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Habitat’s 5th house nearly built
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
The Athens Area Habitat for Humanity, which cur
rently is working on its fifth house, has proven that if
volunteers and underpriviledged families work to
gether, a system eliminating poverty housing can
work efficiently.
The first house was finished about a year and a
half ago,” said Malcolm Reid, assistant site coordi
nator. And since then, three other houses have been
built in Clarke and Ogelthorpe counties.
The most recent project taken on by the Athens
chapter has been the construction of a panelized, or
pre-con st rue ted, house for David and Barbara
Lumpkin.
“We found out about the program through some
friends,” Barbara Lumpkin said. “And about a year
ago, we heard we’d get the house.’
Barbara and David Lumpkin live in a mobile home
with their four kids, ages running from six to 15. For
the past eight Saturdays, they have been working
along with Habitat volunteers, shoveling dirt and
laying brick, for their new home.
They live in a trailer with cramped quarters,
which isn’t big enough for four children, and two par
ents,” Reid said.
So far, the Lumpkin’s have put in over 80 hours of
work on the house, which will be part of a 500 hour
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