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THE MAROON TIGER
April, 1967
COLLEGE CHEATING Continued
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Q. Y/bat is the most effective deterrent
to cheating?
A. The most important deterrent to cheat
ing seems to be a climate of disapproval
of cheating among the student body. As
a student’s peers disapprove more he is
quite a bit less likely to engage in cheat
ing if he is passing.
There is a very significant and sub
stantial difference among colleges and
the level of cheating that goes on. What
destroys school morale is the visibility
of grades.
In other words, if the only person
who knew what grades a student got were
the student himself, and the only use of
the grades were to him alone, he couldn’t
transform those grades into any negoti
able commodity to his advantage.
Q. Hoiv effective are honor systems in
combating cheating?
A. The kinds of schools where a climate
of disapproval of cheating occurs are
where honor systems exist. Students are
given responsibility for handling cases
of cheating. Also they are responsible
for turning in students they have ob
served cheating or for mentioning to the
offender that he turn himself in. This ob
ligation makes a student who would be
tempted to cheat reluctant to do so. He
realizes that it puts his friend under a
stress because his friend then is forced
to respond if he sees him misbehaving.
Q. How can the faculty help eliminate
cheating?
A. A serious attitude toward courses on
the part of faculty members will help. I
agree with an article in a recent Harper’s
magazine that faculty members must
eradicate the source of what cheating
rationalizations may be founded on.
Many of the things which are reward
ing to the faculty person come not out of
the teaching role. It’s bound to be hav
ing an effect. There is interesting re
search to show that among 10 ways to
get ahead in the political science pro
fession, teaching ranks last. At the head
of the list is quantity of publication,
then quality of publication.
Education has a responsibility to
the student, not just punitively, but to
provide alternative solutions for him to
meet academic demands. The faculty
should be available to students, so they
have more than a library resource.
Racism Plagues
Blacks
by Floyd B. McKissick, CORE
More than a century after the Eman
cipation Proclamation, black Americans
still experience the evils of a racist
society - economic deprivation, inferior
education, sub-standard housing and an
unemployment rate almost three times
higher than white workers. Political de-
franchisement, economic exploitation,
fear and frustration continue to plague
black citizens throughout the country.
Discrimination in every aspect of
American life perpetuates our misery and
prolongs the blight of second-class citi
zenship. The moral concepts of human
equality and brotherhood have been com
prised and subverted by the white power
complex of government and business.
Thus the masses of black Americans are
still paralyzed by poverty; frustrated by
unkept promises, bloodied in the streets
of America, sacrificed in the jungles of
Vietnam and strangled by a pattern of
racism that runs through the entire fabric
of American life.
Black men, women and children
watched as a racist Georgia legislature
twice denied Julian Bond the right to
represent them. Again more than 20
million black men, women and children
watched a racist United States Congress
deny Adam Clayton Powell the right to
represent them. No longer can black peo
ple be regarded by this society as pas
sionless, as insufferable and as sub
human, for they can see that the time is
now to assert themselves as men. These
racial injustices prevail because of the
absence of adequate political power on
the part of black Americans to bring about
an end to these inequities.
It is imperative that new methods
and tactics be used to end this pattern
of powerlessness.
In a racist society such as this, only
through the use of power generated by
the unified action of black people on be
half of black people and black causes
can justice, equality and human dignity
be attained.
No political machinery now in exist
ence is available to us through which
our just hopes and aspirations can be
achieved.
Hence, it cannot be denied that the
attainment of our social economic, po
litical, and human rights will come only
through our own joint efforts, dedicated-
ly inspired and relentlessly pursued.
A Bus Ride
With Honor
Mrs. Rosa Parks, with that same calm and
dignity she had when she refused to move
from her seat in the bus, allows herself to
be fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D. H.
Lackey in Montgomery.
It all started with a bus ride from a
downtown street in Montgomery, Ala
bama. Not all, of course, but the real
initiative for the current Civil Rights
drive gained its modern day emphasis
from that slim, trim, brown-skinned seam
stress, who ignored the insulting order
from a bus driver to “Get to the back of
the bus.” Rosa Parks had heard such an
order on many occasions, not only to
her but to other Negro riders. She had
oftimes paid her fare up front, walked
toward the back door for boarding only
to have a bus driver pull off and leave
her ignominiously standing in the street,
her fare in the box and no ride. This
November day she decided to ride in the
seat of her choice. Police were summon
ed and she was arrested. Civil Rights
had been on the agenda of the Negro and
Rosa Park’s forebearers from the days of
slavery. Long before the Emancipation
Proclamation they made efforts to become
a free, whole people only to find their
energies wasted and frequently feeling
the sting of the lash — and too many
times, death for making the try.
From the days of Reconstruction
these former slaves found themselves
like a “rat in a trap” of political and
social and economic slavery despite the
Emancipation Proclamation. At every
turn of the road in their life there was a
“difference” made where they were con
cerned. During the Truman Administra
tion of the late forties the separate ac
commodations of the railroads were out
lawed; discrimination in housing was de
clared illegal, and there was a beginning
of the program to integrate all the arm
ed forces of our nation. One year prior
to Mrs. Parks famous bus ride, May 17,
1954, the Supreme Court outlawed segre
gated schools and now eleven years later,
less than 15% of those schools are in-
te grated.
But back to the Bus Boycott and
Mrs. Parks. Negro busriders in Mont
gomery determined to “Walk in Dignity
rather than ride in ignominy” and the
city’s transportation system was threat
ened with bankruptcy. Many Negroes were
fired from their jobs for supporting this
movement. Life was made so unbearable
for Mrs. Parks she had to leave the city.
Out of this movement there came a new
leader, a young Baptist preacher in
his twenties, reared in Atlanta, Geor
gia, the son of a distinguished Bap
tist Minister, educated in Pennsylvania
and Boston. His name . . . Martin Luther
King Jr. He rose to the occasion, taking
the leadership of the movement, and de
spite threats, bombings, and many jail-
ings this new type of assault on a vicious
system took shape and was most success
ful. There were others, too, in this move
ment . . . too numerous to mention but
Dr. King found support among the pro
fessional people, some of the teachers,
the porters and maids, farmers and rail
road workers. The story is told of one
maid whose employer offered to send a
car for her and send her back home after
the day’s work in the family car but she
refused, preferring to “sacrifice with
the others,” Dr. King’s movement had
full support of the NAACP and its legal
staff. One of the most prominent figures
was NAACP Attorney Arthur Shores of
Birmingham, plus a battery of lawyers
from the national office in New York. In
1956 the NAACP was outlawed in the
state of Alabama because its legal work
had been so effective in combating a
corroding system of segregation which
this state wanted to cling to. Sensing
the need for an effective organization on
the scene. Dr. King organized the South
ern Christian Leadership Conference.
Thanks to Rosa Parks, today it has
branches throughout the South and in
some Northern cities with an annual
budget exceeding a quarter of a million
dollars. Today, also, the SCLC and
NAACP work hand-in-hand with each
other and with the Congress of Racial
Equality and the Students Non Violent
Coordinating Committee. The demonstra
tions of today, the picket lines of col
lege students, the marches . . . stem from
Rosa Parks’ efforts that proved so effect
ive ten years ago. Today a Negro “goes
to the back of the bus” because he pre
fers riding there and not because of any
ignominious system. He takes the vacant
seat available. Thanks to people like
Rosa Parks, he rides the limousines to
and from the airports, he eats at a Holi
day Inn or Howard Johnson, and stays
in a Sheraton or Hilton Hotel in a South
ern metropolis as he would in Philadel
phia or Cleveland. Thanks to united pro
tests everywhere, his children may now
matriculate at Wake Forest, Florida State
University, Duke University, or Clem-
son. To say all the doors are open, that
every privilege is available to the great,
great grandchildren of those slaves who
longingly hoped for equality when the
Emancipation Proclamation w ( as signed
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