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d Mali Integrity gone? Some students say cheating a must for good grades v °tea { United Press International NEW YORK — Some modern- day collegians have found a new way tolheat: they sneak into computer ropms and tamper with the tran- e Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education says computer dishonesty on the college campus is a “relatively new phe nomenon, but one that may be on the rise.” The prestigious council based in Berkeley, Calif., noted in a report Ml aclJ ymentM id that!) )ra l 000 cli! increastl ufficieil the iff state It >n liitii pro# icturephone exists, but costly United Press International BOSTON — Audio-visual telephone service connecting eight najor U.S. city areas began Tuesday. The New England Telephone Co. said the coast-to-coast link-up, nown as Picturephone Meeting Service, will include 12 major cities Nationwide by the end of the year. At present, PMS is available in Boston, New York, Washington, )etroit, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The basic be for a Boston-to-Los Angeles call is $6.50 per minute, or $390 an our. Company spokesman Ann Bean said while the service may be Expensive, it can cut down on long-distance travel by allowing people to talk face-to-face by telephone. “The per hour fee is less than the foundtrip air ticket between the two cities,” she said. “Virtually every aspect of in-person meetings can be duplicated dth the service. The system can utilize video tapes, films, trans- barencies or other types of visual aides in making presentations.” f PMS allows six customers in each city to participate in a confer ence. Individuals are simultaneously filmed and recorded by automa tic cameras in a private room. I Bean said PMS will be available to the general public during regu lar business hours on a first-come, first-served basis. EL Chico- restaurant! issued Wednesday on “Fair Prac tices in Higher Education” that three UCLA students last year were “caught trying to change their grades by sneaking into the univer sity’s computer system.” And a student at Wayne State “learned the password for a univer sity research project and charged $2,000 worth of computer time to it.” But computer cheating, the coun cil said, is just one of several signs that ethical conduct is falling apart on the nation’s college campuses. The list of academic “dirty laun dry” also includes: —Cheating by students on - academic assignments, including buying of research papers. Nearly 9 percent of students report some form of cheating is necessary to get the grades they want. Larger per centages admit resorting to cheating on papers or exams. —Misuse by students of public fi nancial aid. About 13 percent of loans made under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program are in de fault and 17 percent of the National Direct Student Loan recipients are in default. The non-repayment rate of the intentionally highrisk veter an’s loans is 44 percent. —Mutilitation of library books and supplies or stealing of books and journals is serious many schools studied. Undergraduate libraries at the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University and the University of Washington report annual loss rates at between 4 and 5 percent of their collections. Even a 1 percent loss rate nationally would cost $63.4 million a year. “We are concerned,” the council said, “that these negative traits may indicate a larger and more deep- seated problem: a general loss of self-confidence and of a sense of mutual trust, and a general decline in integrity of conduct on campus. ” Another sign of trouble cited by the council is an increase in lawsuits threatened or initiated by students. A council survey in 1978, said these went up at 35 percent of the schools, stayed the same at 51 per cent and decreased at 14 percent. 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