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Volume 59 No. 80
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Crowded dorms to face fall students
by DAVID N.BRABOY
LIFE Ass't. News Editor
Central students will continue to face overcrowding in certain
dormitories this fall, a Housing Programs official saidFriday.'
Gary Ciaffone.-assistant director of Housing Programs, said all
residence halls at the south end of campus will have some four-
person rooms housing five students.
Larzelere, Tate, Trout and Calkins halls also will have some
overcrowded rooms, he added.
Ciaffone explained the "over-subscription" of those dorms stems
from the results, of a recent campus-wide, three-day room drawing.
More than 2,500 current dormitory residents decided to move off-
eampus, he said, but 3,434 students decided to remain in CMU's 19
residence halls.
Nearly'3,000 students also are anticipated to move into the dorms
this fall, he said, They will include incoming freshmen, transfer and
off-campus students, Ciaffone explained.
Central has a housing capacity of 6,096 students. Ciaffone
estimated CMU will have at least 250 more dorm residents than it
can house without overcrowding in Fall 1978.   •
"In some halls there are rooms that no one drew for," he said.
"These rooms will be where we will over-subscribe. We try not to
over-subscribe rooms students drew into.
The. room drawing took place from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday and 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday. This was the first time the
drawing occurred at night, Ciaffone said.
"There has been a concern in the past of students missing classes
to draw for a room when we used to have the drawing all day long.
So we thought we would try something new and see if we could help
alleviate that problem," Ciaffone had said.
Friday Ciaffone said he has not yet received any student feedback
on the drawing time change. "No one said if it was bad or good," he
said. "It doesn't surprise me that we didn't get any feedback.
(Housing Programs) normally doesn't get any."
Ciaffone predicted future room drawings may continue to take
place at night, "Chances are, unless I get some real negative
feedback, we might-go with it at night again. The (residence) hall
directors thought it went well in the evening, but that's from their
standpoint."
Ciaffone added he would first have to talk with the directors to
discover student feedback. "What I'll need to do to get feedback is
to talk to the hall directors, since they would have had to talk to (the
students)" who participated in the drawing.
Students living in the halls this fall will have until June 20 to
either cancel their room selection or pay their first $200 room and
board payment, he said,
Profs told to test
during exam week
REO Speedwagon and The Babys entertained a stahding rww only crowd Saturday evening in Rose
Arena. The groups passed through Mount Pleasant while on a concert tour promoting REO's new
album, "You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tutia Fish"(LIFE photo by David Fritz).
SA document ready;
will voters approve?
byTIMCUPRISIN
and
JOEGITTER
LIFE Staff Writers
After nearly six months of writing, rewriting
and revision, the Student Association (SA) Board'
of. Directors will present a new constitution to
CMU students next week.
Student Body President Steve Trudeau has
said the present constitution is unclear and
ambiguous. He said he undertook rewriting the
constitution to clear up the minor technical errors
in the document as well as change the board's
representation policy.
The constitution, which received official
support from the SA board at last Wednesday's
meeting, will appear on the May 3 and 4 student
ballot. *
At least 8 percent of the student body must
cast ballots for the election to be valid. A
majority of those voting must vote yes for the
proposed constitution for it to be implemented.
If student voters approve the constitution, it
then will be sent to the Board of Trustees for its
. approval, Trudeau said. '
The . most radical change contained in the
document concerns allocation of representative
seats on the board.
Under the SA's present constitution, 12 of the
22 board seats are occupied by special interest
and minority groups. Representation under the
(See "SA constitution-" page 10)
Expulsion possible remedy
byPETEENGARDIO
LIFE Staff Writer
Faculty, members who in past
years have been permitting
their students to skip the class
sessions during' final
examination week. May 8 to 12,
will be told to stop the practice.
Provost John E. Cantelon said
Friday. he has instructed all
academic schools and departments to remind their instructors of the University
.policy which requires attendance ' at class sessions
during finals week.
The situation was brought to
the attention of Academic
Senate by Caiman Levich,
VUfsim :^
Department chairperson.
, Levich complained too many
teachers were violating the
policy, thus posing a ntfmber of
problems for their students and
other faculty.
"Many faculty have taken to
giving their finals a week early
and dismissing classes during
final exam week," Levich said.
"The' net result of this is the
instruction period is shortened a
week. For all practical purposes,
once the final exam is given, the
course is finished."
He also said the two primary
reasons the final exam week
initially was employed to solve
now are problems again.
"Exam week is very important because there has to be
some sort of system to keep all
exams from occurring at the
same' time for the* students and
it has to be possible to give a fair
final test," Levich said.
Cantelon said although
comprehensive tests should be
conducted during finals week,
the  policy  does   not  prohibit
Cheaters face stiff penalties
(Editor's note: In a three-part series beginning today, LIFE will
examine the various aspects of cheating. Today, LIFE will focus on
penalties for cheating; Wednesday's installment will foals On
professors' and students' attitudes on cheating, and Friday's installment will look at cheating's psychological aspects arid some
'easy outs'which have commonly been used by students.) .
by DONNA ENGELGAU
and -
PAMJAHNKE
.   LIFE Copy Editors
The library, is packed, term papers and final projects are due. The
semester is drawing to a close and the pressure is on.'
.   The thought of a "borrowed" terra paper or exam might be appealing, to students pressed for time or to those who express no
interest in the task at hand, but the risk of getting caught is worth a
' look into CMU's cheating policy.
For  those  unaware  of  the  consequences .of  cheating,  the
University policy is both strict and specific regarding academic
• " ' : i—■K"
—Registrar   issues    new    final   exam
schedule—page 3 .. ^
—Ombudsman's  Council  td investigate
book store pricing—page 8'
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—Scots, Spartans up next fdr diamond-
men—page 12 -
-trackmen defuse ftookots—page 13
dishonesty. Violators are in dangerof stiff penalties.
The University policy on cheating states in part: "In cases where
academic dishonesty is involved, determination of the grade shall be
left solely to the discretion of the instructor." '',
1 Most students realize what they are up against when an instructor says, "Anyone seen looking on another person's exam will
receive art E for the course."
"The instructor has the power to make the student drop the class
or give the student an automatic E," Sharon George, student activities coordinator said.'
"If there is a discrepancy in grades it usually goes between the
instructor and the department," George said. "Invariably, the instructor is so mad he wants the student expelled immediately.
N"We (Student Affairs) don't have the power to dismiss students
from the class but we have the power to dismiss them from the
University."
George said the consequences a student found guilty of cheating
wiil'face vary depending upon the circumstances.
The student may be fined, put on probation, expelled from the
University for a certain period of time, or dismissed, which means
the student is forbidden to return to Central.
Dean of Students James Hill said he believes the most acceptable
.way to deal with cheating is for both the student and instructor to
work the problem out.
However, 'Hill said, if the charges are serious enough, the instructor's complaint is reviewed in Student Affairs and referred
back to the department where the course is offered.
At all times the student has redress. If a student believes,he or
she has been unjustly accused of cheating and dealt with unfairly, .
the complaint may be taken to Central's Grievance Committee
(See "Cheating penalties-" page -2)
giving them early. It does,
however, state sessions are to
be conducted in the scheduled
final period.
"I see some advantages to
giving the exam early and
reviewing it the last week when
this is agreeable to students,"
Cantelon said. "But there is no
justification for having exams
early and abandoning classes
the last week."
Associate Registrar Roy W.
Dunham said the exam week
was introduced in 1973 to
present a "test schedule which is
conflict free." Before that time,
students frequently had complained their instructors were
giving all their comprehensive
exams at the same time, he said.
Students in recent semesters
also have begun to report the
same problems to the
Registrar's Office, Dunham
added.
Another concern is that when
some teachers give their exams
a week early, it creates pressure
on other faculty to do likewise
since many students do not want
to remain at school another
(See "Finals week--" page 10)
fops in country
CM LIFE Advertising
Manager Ken Gal has been
named the 1977-78
Distinguished Advertising
Manager of the Year by a
national college advertising
society.    .
The College Newspaper
Business and Advertising
Managers (CNBAM) selected
Gal as the top ad manager in
the country from a field of
more than 50 candidates from
the nation's most prestigious*
college papers.
CNBAM presented Gal the
award in conjunction with the'
National Educational Advertising Services, Inc. and
CASS, Student Advertising,
Inc. Saturday at its annual
convention in Chicago.
Ken Gal
LIFE also won first runner-
up for In-house Promotion at
the CNBAM convention for
its Valentine Day promotion.
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