The Cadre, Mar. 18, 1975, page 4

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Sure he had his PhD, but he realized that this was only the theoretical concept of his chosen field. This pro- fessor told us that his un- derstanding was continually broadening through research and DISCUSSION. _

Come-on prof I}! LETS SHARE THIS LEARNING EXPERe IENCE.

A Student Who Has Gained Conscience

Chuck DesRoche P.S. The methods of a few professors are different. They have a greater consid- eration for the individual fiho really has a desire to

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Dear Mutt and Jeff MacDonald; I am writing this letter in response to your article in the last edition of the Cadre. Is it not ironic that you should be the sick one and not myself. For you to twist and dist— ort the whole incident in the way you did: shows hOW'

much your minds.must be warped. J ” N

_ For even the Cadre to think of printing such aK distorted article reflects how ill the Cadre staff must be. In the future I would recommend that you report the "facts" and not the fantasy of a sick mind.

Yours Truly Matt _ Cutt .

Dear Sir; Colleen warren's letter

(Cadre, Feb.25) about term" papers and essays withheld by professors rather than returned to students points to a dilemma that has con— cerned me for years. Obviously these papers ought to be returned, be- cause an important part of the educational value of doing them is obtaining the teacher's comments and corrections as feedback. On the other hand, un- deniably we do have a seri—

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In one course I gave re— cently, about 25% of the term papers appeared to be

plagiarized. Much of my time .

was spent not-—as it should have been ——in reviewing the honest work of serious students, but in trying to detect cases of plagiarism by freeloaders out for an easy grade._

In two or three of these cases, I was morally cer- tain though I could not prove——that one of the "research services" that advertises in the press had furnished the "term papers"

There are, of course, various tactics professors can utiliaeito fight plagr. iarism. One is to employ oral interviews for evalua- tion instead of written papers. I have found this quite an effective tech- nique. Another is to ask students to type duplicate’“

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copies of a paper and sub- mit both cbpies. One copy is kept in the professors file, the other is returned .with comments, to the stu- dent. '

Miss Warren's suggestion that profeséors may plag— ‘iarize students' written work is not without found- ation. I certainly happens at some graduate: schools, usually with the plagiar— ized student's knowledge and more or less cheerful acquiescence. Some very eminent scholars in a num— ber of academic disciplines have published books, sev~ eral chapters of which were

foriginally graduate stu- dents' seminar papers.

I don't thinkthereis . much, if any, of this a UP- EI, for the simple reason that few undergraduate pap— ers are of the quality a professor could use in a published book or article. When professors plagarize for lectures-~as unfortun- ately they sometimes do—- they usually resort to a textbook other than the one assigned to their students.

Student-—and probably. profieSSOrial--plagiarism .wouid"disappearalike«5now'« infMayi-ifn the “morally r " .corruptihg'grading/sys-v tem used at this and

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Brother George Morgan F.S.C._ will be on campus March17,18,19.

Please contact Father Gerard Tingley. Chaplain, loranappdnunent '

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