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Page 8 THE MAROON TIGER April, 1967 COLLEGE CHEATING Continued (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7-COLUMN 3) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9-COLUMN 1)