THE BATTALION
Page 2
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 2, 1965
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A New Appraisal
Of Compulsory ROTC
The National Association of State Universities and
Land Grant Colleges has come up with an interesting light
on the Department of Defense’s attitude toward compul
sory ROTC.
In its monthly bulletin, the association reported the
Defense Department has imposed ceilings on the total num
ber of students who can be enrolled in first year Military
and Air Science. At the same time, the association said,
the military leaders have told some institutional heads that
if they keep required ROTC they may be faced with the
prospect of having to screen out by physical and mental
tests, enough students to bring the institutional enrollment
to a fixed entering number.
An officer on the staff of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense, the bulletin said, expected that enough institu
tions will go off the required ROTC to make it unnecessary
to impose quotas on any institution which wants to keep it.
It would seem this might make it possible for schools like
A&M to maintain compulsory corps without having to set
rigid enrollment limits.
However, during the past several years the Defense
Department has not been very enthusiastic in its support of
compulsory ROTC. Many colleges have dropped the pro
gram because of this discouragement, but none have yet
been forced into this decision.
A&M’s perplexing problem might well be solved by
the Defense Department — regardless of student opinion
polls or administrative decisions.
‘Now that’s what I call a weekend!”
Academic Dishonesty Underestimated
Claims Columbia U. Research Staff
By Intercollegiate Press
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A nation
wide survey of hundreds of deans
and thousands of students in 99
American colleges and universi
ties has revealed that:
—The amount of academic
dishonesty in college is “gross
ly underestimated” by stu
dents, student body presidents
and deans.
—Only a small proportion
of those who cheat are caught
and punished.
—Sources of college cheat-
ting can be traced to the high
school experiences of students.
—Schools with honor sys
tems are less apt to have a
high level of cheating than
those with other arrangements
for control.
—Elements of school quality
are associated with low levels
of cheating.
The survey was conducted by
William J. Bowers of Columbia
University’s Bureau of Applied
Social Research. The work was
supported by the Cooperative Re
search Program of the Office
of Education, United States De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare. The findings are
contained in a report titled “Stu
dent Dishonesty and its Control
in College.”
Its conclusions are based on
(1) answers by more than 600
college deans and more than 500
student body presidents to a 61-
item questionnaire and (2) an
swers by 4,422 students to a 72-
item questionnaire.
“Perhaps the most alarming
finding of this study concerns
the prevalence of academic dis
honesty on American college
campuses,” says the report. “At
least half the students in the
sample have engaged in some
form of academic dishonesty since
coming to college. This is prob
ably a conservative estimate.
“The magnitude of the problem
is grossly underestimated by
members of the campus communi
ty. Two and a half times as
many students have cheated as
student body presidents estimate,
and more than three times as
many have cheated as dean esti
mate.
“Campus authorities say that
only a small proportion of those
who cheat, even according to their
conservative estimates, are caught
and punished. Only relatively
lenient punishments are imposed
LBJ Eyes War Proposals
WASHINGTON UP) — Presi
dent Johnson summoned his top
national security advisers Thurs
day to consider Ambassador Max
well D. Taylor’s new proposals
for bolstering U. S. efforts in
the Viet Nam war.
If past experience is any
guide, the administration will
not disclose details of the “more
definitive proposals” which Tay
lor said in advance he would re
commend to the President.
On the diplomatic front, John
son got a plea from 17 neutralist
nations to begin Viet Nam peace
negotiations without any strings
attached.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
politely received envoys repre
senting the neutrals - but told
them that the way to peace in
Southeast Asia lies in an end to
Communist agression.
A State Department spokes
man said there is no sign that
Red North Viet Nam intends to
end its attacks on the South.
Thus, in the U. S. view, negotia
tions now would be worthless.
Johnson sent to Congress a
request for $1 million for a new
U. S. Embassy to replace the
bombed American headquarters
in Saigon. At the same time, a
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Senate committee rebuffed a
Johnson request for unlimited
fund authorization to aid South
Viet Nam.
Besides Johnson and Taylor,
those summoned to the session
at the White House were Rusk,
Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara, Director John A.
McCone of the Central Intelli
gence Agency, Gen. Earle Wheel
er, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and McGeorge Bundy,
presidential assistant on national
security affairs.
Taylor has been in Washing
ton for consultations since Sun
day. He is expected to head for
Saigon on Saturday after testi
fying before Senate and House
committees and meeting with
newsmen Friday.
—Job Calls—
Monday
Poteet Public Schools — bio
logy, education, pschology, mathe
matics, physics, English.
Beaumont Independent School
District — chemistry, education,
pschology, industrial education,
mathematics.
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for academic dishonesty at most
schools. Seldom are students
suspended or dismissed for vio
lating norms of acadamic integri
ty, despite the fact that authori
ties consider this a serious dis
ciplinary problem.
“Large schpols have higher
levels of cheating than small ones,
and coeducational schools have
higher levels than either men’s
or women’s colleges, the latter
having the lowest rates. The
advantage of the single-sex
schools seems partly due to their
higher academic quality on the
average.
“The level of cheating is much
lower at schools that place pri
mary responsibility for dealing
with cases of academic dishones
ty in the hands of the students
and their elected representatives,
as under the honor system, than
as schools that rely on faculty-
centered control or have a form
of mixed control, in which facul
ty and students jointly partici
pate.
“Presumably, in return for the
privilege and trust students are
accorded under the honor sys
tem, they develop a stronger
sense of commitment to norms of
academic integrity and, thereby,
a climate of peer disapproval of
cheating emerges on the cam
pus.”
WASHINGTON hP) — Re
publicans changed the guard
Thursday, and their new nation
al chairman told them to build a
party of broad national appeal,
free of “mud-slinging and nega
tive thinking.”
As he took command of the
Republican National Committee,
Ray C. Bliss declared that all
Americans have a stake in a
GOP comeback.
Bliss said a sound two-party
system is the “flesh and blood”
of American government.
Former Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon told more than 2,-
000 Republican women that even
President Johnson would be bet-
off with more Republicans in
Congress.
“He needs the loyal opposi
tion,” Nixon, said.
And Barry Goldwater, who lost
to Johnson in a November land
slide, said that even in defeat
Republican foreign policy princi
ples have proved victorious.
But Goldwater said the GOP
Bulletin Board
Friday
Hillel Club will meet at 7 p.m.
at the foundation building.
MSC Chess Committee will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2-C,
2-D of the Memorial Student
Center.
Saturday
Band Wives Club will sponsor
a rum mange sale from 8 a.m.
until noon at Orr’s Supermarket
in downtown Bryan.
Indian Students Association
will meet at 7 p.m. in the Gay
Room of the YMCA Building.
A talk on Africa will be given
by John F. Griffiths.
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has been “weak - kneed and
short-sighted” in facing the is
sue of what he termed mounting
federal power.
“This party will either stand
against the present erosion of
state and local government, or
it will serve by default the growth
of an overwhelming and all-pow
erful federal establishment in
Washington,” Goldwater said.
“We can no longer hide behind
the weasel words that try to say
we can avoid the problem sim
ply by ignoring it.”
Goldwater pointed to John
son’s voting rights bill as typify
ing centralized power. He said it
would deny some states their
constitutional authority to set
voter qualifications.
“There are on the books today
ample laws to demand and ob
tain the right to vote for every
qualified citizen in every state
of the union,” he said.
Goldwater said the Johnson pro
posal should properly be a con
stitutional amendment. “The law
does nothing less than change our
constitution,” he said.
Nixon disagreed. He told a
should pass a voting rights bill
promptly, but he added that John
son’s bill should be revised.
Nixon said literacy tests area
proper requirement, but that a
sixth grade education should
establish a presumption of liter
acy. He added that Congress
should pass legislation that will
cope with discrimination wher
ever it occurs.
A constitutional amendment
would not solve the problem
swiftly enough, Nikon said, be
cause it could not be effective in
time for the 1966 elections.
Nixon said a long delay would
bring with it more demonstra
tions and possible violence.
Bliss took over the national
chairmanship from Dean Burch,
the man Goldwater chose for
the job.
“I am not here to criticize
anyone for anything that did or
did not happen in the past, 1 ’
Bliss said. “I never have been a
Monday morning quarterback,"
The Ohioan said Republicans
must unite in tolerance behind
their candidates, even men with
whom they disagree on some
news conference that Congress points.
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