Show Honest or Otherwise Cheating Takes Its Pity the Poor Every year some talk of cheating comes In the last issue of the Panther there was an article on cheating as seen here at The basic conclusion reached was that the student is to blame for The article then implied that it's the teacher who should change his This may be one way of reducing I'd like to stop one moment and pity the poor instructor and not excuse the student so Assuming that all students have no sense of honor or integrity many of them the teacher could attempt to forcibly reform He could bring in a few paid proctors and carefully watch each say is the only They claim this in spite of the fact that the honest student may resent such many professors are trying to instill faith in students by trusting in For a teacher to make up a new exam for every section in hope of hampering cheaters is a big undertaking remembering that he usually has four or five sections to First of time is not avail Many lecturers and instructors have to hold other jobs outside the University to support a family and continue A young instructor one jump away from his teaching four sections of a working on a second job evenings and making only has little time to sit up nights and make up four different In most of them don't have the services of a secretary and must type up and run off all their own If a teacher gives an essay the glib student can write smoothly at great length with little time knowledge of the The one with less writing ability then An objective test gives the student a better chance to show his knowledge of but at the same time gives the cheater a fine opportunity and doesn't allow the thinker to interpret and correlate what he's Teachers are pursuing an honorable profession and deserve in return honorable cooperation from their students here by not The source of the cheating problems is in the We can't throw that blame off quite so |