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Show A nice boy, actually The hero was caught cheating clence and anarchy." The media neglected to note that only about ten percent of the student population popula-tion voted for anybody. Steinberg's parents in Los Angeles An-geles were suitably upset. "They were sorry I had done jt fc noted. "As for pec le !'; l and off campus, I hi! ,,lh realize that one mfsa not a life make," e glumly. "e W'm, to push is bigger than me. It's not based on a person, it's an idea, a mode of action; one which I think is valid." Such a charismatic campaign won Steinberg a three to one margin in his bid for top student leader on the radical West Coast campus. And that brought the media, which avidly chronicled the new swing of the American college student back to the middle of the road, and away from "vi- BY NICK DeMARTINO College Press Service BERKELEY, CALIF (CPS) It's the kind of story that they did cn the Ozzie and Harriet show. You remember the episode. The glamorous, successful, ruthless, popular student leader, in a moment mo-ment of weakness, succumbs to his darker nature and cheats. He gets caught, confesses, apologizes, goes straight. Only this time, Our Hero was pretty straight lo begin with. Leigh Steinberg, who was elected Berkeley student government president in April on an apple-pie-and-Mother ticket, confessed last week that, indeed, he had arranged ar-ranged for a fellow student to take a required language exam for him. "It's an act of which I'm not proud," said Steinberg, explaining explain-ing the sad story to newsmen. Steinberg said that he had asked ask-ed a friend to take the test "during "dur-ing a period of strife and personal confusion." It wasn't a period of acute awareness for the government govern-ment grade hound (3.45 cumulative cumul-ative average). The University did away with the foreign language langu-age requirement about a month after his misdeed. The facts came out in a copy- righted story in the Daily Calif -ornian after Steinberg had flatly denied the charge at a press conference con-ference following his election. The Berkeley administration was on to Steinberg, however, and the Daily Cal decided to break j the news because of its fears the ' administration might blackmail j Steinberg. And Steinberg admitted his ! guilt. The case now awaits adjudication adjudica-tion before the Student Conduct i Committee, where he's expected to get a hand-slapping, or, at I worst, a lecture. Steinberg's election was another j prevailing American cultural myth: the Triumphant Moderate. He was widely hailed by TV, national na-tional news magazines, and other commercial organs, when he won the student-government elections Among the stirring statements of his self-styled "moderage" theory: the-ory: "The movement we're trying |