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Wednesday, August 28,1985AThe Battalion/Page 3B ON THE SIDE OF TEXAS ASM f Yn/v&uc/i/ NATIONAL HANK y Cheater recalls expullsion e bottom students i e core nonresidtE t0 be in j r class and ■dents win ■nimum m special coii e if exta response he requirt let such tb ype of schi nt in exiu rt-time jofe or a lotij ;xist for LM. udentleai many bit Jecausethti s to becots divines tht i similar im u of cultu: >rial Studei ms Office, un for bhtb e enrolled By DEBRA CANTU Reporter Three years ago Jeff was doing what every college-bound 18-yeai- old student does alter high school graduation; he was choosing a col- lege. , , In 1982 Texas A&M accepted Jeff as a student. Three years later, Texas A&M said goodbye. Jeft was caught cheating. Jeff said he had no idea he would get caught. Getting caught supposed to happen way. wasn t not to him any- “I never thought my college ca reer at A&M would just come to a stop,” he said. Jeff looks uncomfortable as he re members. He remembers auditing the class that got him expelled from the Uni versity. He said he was helping a friend, or so he thought. “I didn’t think it would be such a big deal to wait for the test to be handed out and walk out with it,” he said. Jeff said it would help his friend who would take the same test an hour later. His friend didn’t get ex pelled. Jeff stares out of the window. He remembers the professor. He said the professor wanted Jeff to learn a lesson. Jeff appeared before the Univer sity’s disciplinary appeals panel to plead his case. He was tried and con victed. Guilty. Jeff remembers the six pairs of eyes from the members of the panel. He said they were piercing, ques tioning, knowing. The panel consis ted of students and faculty. They were there to give Jeff a last chance. “I felt like I was being executed,” he said. “Things didn’t look so good and I knew it.” Jeffs eyes are downcast and he re members. He remembers how cheating in high school was commonplace. “High school was a joke. Nobody paid any attention to cheating,” he said. “I thought I could do it here and get away with it. I was wrong.” Three years of work at the Uni versity were taken away. Jeffs future was redealt to him. His friend’s fu ture was unchanged. Jeff can’t talk about it anymore. He said it happened, but it wasn’t supposed to. Mobile Home Outlet, Inc. Sales and Service Why rent when you can buy for less 822-9140 North Texas Ave. and Hwy 21 under the big Texas flag new, used and repo mobile homes * * * * * -¥-¥-¥-¥-¥^-¥-¥-¥-¥-'¥-¥"¥--¥"¥"¥~¥--¥~¥-ii- A&M officials will prosecute cheaters mmMmim back By DEBRA CANTU Reporter If cheating sounds appealing, think again before risking the chance of getting caught. At Texas A&M, administrators are not reluctant to prosecute cheat ers, the supervisor of student judi cial affairs at the University said. “Roughly six cases of cheating came through my office last year,” Supervisot Brent Patterson said. “1 know because I’m the records keeper for student’s disciplinary fi les,” he added. He said students normally receive an F in the course if they are caught cheating; however, the professor can take the case to the dean of the col lege if he feels a more drastic mea sure needs to be taken. “If a professor feels the student is esss in a habitual cheater or needs to be taught a lesson, he can bring the case up with the dean. A decision is then made whether to put the student on probation, suspension, or even ex pulsion,” Patterson said. “The dean makes the decision.” If a student is ‘convicted’ of cheat ing by the dean, he has a right to due process under the University’s rules and regulations. At Texas A&M, due process consists of a hearing. The University Appeals Panel, consisting of faculty members and students, hears the case and makes a decision based on the student’s ar- guement. The procedure requires the stu dent to file a written request for an appeals hearing within three class days of receiving the dean’s decision. The student must show unjust pun ishment or a violation of clue proc- his case against the college. He is allowed legal counsel at the hearing. After the hearing,a decision is reached by the Panel at a closed ses sion and a formal letter outlining the decision is sent to the student. Now you know what Texas A&M does for those who get caught, but what is the University doing to avoid the situation entirely? Ethics and values courses are of fered at universities across the na tion and are placed at the conclusion of a program of study. Many col leges are incorporating lectures on ethics in freshman orientation. Presently, Texas A&M is not of fering such programs. “We can’t hit ethics on freshman,” Director of Student Activities Caro lyn Adair said. Adair said freshmen need pro grams on assertiveness, time man agement and grade awareness be fore plunging into ethics. However, she said the University is considering a course that touches on ethics as one of its topics. “As far as an ethics course being offered at the University, plans are on the burner,” Adair said. “We’d start small and expand the program if it became popular,” she added. Adair said the potential for high enrollment in such a course is great and she’d like to provide enough sections to accomodate the demand. She also said staffing the course would be a mammoth task. 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