McGill says the problem

is too many

MONTREAL (CUP) McGill University has found a novel way to deal with the school’s lack of Arts profes- sors: admit fewer students.

A proposal passed by the McGill Admissions and Scholarships Committee will require higher marks from applicants in Arts and is to

students

means Canadian students ap- plying to McGill average 70 per cent would no longer be consid- ered for acceptance.

with an

under

However, Arts and Sci- ences society president Ge- off Moore said the university is taking the wrong approach the problem.

be ratified at the next uni- . sity Senate meeting a think

rer site 2 me : pe 4

Y : ‘ McGill is attempting to solve “There is a clear feel-

aes : the problem of overcrowding ing within the faculty that

student-to- teacher ratios are simply too high and McGill is facing a serious underfunding

overnight if this is going to be effective it must be one step in a larger process,” he

said.

. : ; a sg: aaa HELP figan “Marks aren’t the only Martin Petter said of the 2 Bs way to judge a_ person,’ proposal. Moore added. p s * Currently, the average Che proposal would raise ys &

students-to-teacher ratio at the McGill Faculty of Arts is

23 to one. The proposed pol-

the acceptance marks to 70 75 and would mnly apply to students from

Quebee colleges

or per cent

icy would bring it down to 17

and other

Canadian high schools. This © one. n

Plan to

by Arman Danesh

TORONTO (CUP) are still in danger of having their work ripped off under Canada’s new copyright leg- islation, the National Gradn- ate Council says.

Graduate students

NGC Jonathan Bremer says Par- liament sheuld double Bill C- 60’s three year statute of lim- itations

Chair

on prosecution for

copyright infringement.

The NGC, the graduate

wing of the Canadian Federa- tion of Students, thinks grad students should have more time to file suit or claim dam- ages when a professor takes their work and uses it as his

or her own.

Ph.D. supervisor at Carleton who published a

Bremer cited a

student’s mas- ter’s thesis in four journals. But the student, unaware of the infringement until after the three year period, had no legal recourse.

revise copyright laws

And even though the bill has already heen passed in the House of Commons, Bre- mer is confident the Senate can still amend it in gradu- ate students’ favour.

“The particular commit- tee (reviewing the bill) is the same committee (that re- jected) the drug patent bill,” he said. oP posed to standing up to the house.”

hey are predis-

Bremer said cases of pla-

giarism are frequent, but very few are reported be- cause of students’ fears.

“If they report, they

probably won’t get their de- gree,” Bremer said. increase

He said in

the statute of limitations to

an

would stu-

de-

com-

six years allow dents to

hefore

finish their

grees making plaints about infringement. Plagiarism is especially

common in

the sciences where professors

get co-authorship credit tor work done in their lab, even though they have no such le- gal right, Bremer said.

This practice is so com- mon that it is not questioned, he said.

Oeoret Hoffman been no reported plagiarism

Ombudsman Liz said there have cases of this tvpe and there are no specific guidelines in the University’s Code of Be- haviour to legislate such con- duct.

“Tf a case was brought to the approach the University as to

this office, office would

legality,” Hoffman said.

“Tf it is a case of a profes- sor printing a total work with no credit, morally we would have a problem with it,” she “What to investigate is the legality.” the On- tario Graduate Association,

said. we would have

Bremer — said a wing of the Ontario: Fed- eration of Students, has re- tained a lawyer to help stu- dents fight copyright battles.

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