Volume 83, Number 10
Waiting to Get Better Since 1920
November 6, 2003
Cheating: Harmful To Your Career? Brette Lawrence Staff Writer
As part of the Honor Integrity Week, I-ongwood University' presented a panel discussion called "Will Cheating Hurt Your Career?" This panel featured three I.ongwood Professors, Dr. Theresa Clark, Dr. Tim Pierson, and Dr. Wayne McWee. The discussion began with Clark sharing several synonyms for the word cheating, which included words like dishonest, corrupt, and unethical among many other colorful words. She explained I-ongwood's policy on cheating, which states that there is "no forgiveness for cheating," and that it will go on a student's record. McWee followed by sharing the business department's policy on cheating, which states that anyone who cheats in any of that department's classes will automatically fail that course. He went on to tell stories of students who wanted to work for the government, but could not get jobs because they had a cheating incident on their record. Pierson described the importance of good character, and believing in yourself, and summed it up by saying, "The person who you say you are is die person you are when you're alone." He stressed the importance of
helping I-ongwood maintain its excellent reputation, and that the consequences of peoples' actions can effect the entire school. Another point brought up by Pierson was that of exuding confidence, and believing in ones' self. He went on to describe how important this was by saying, "You're competing with the best. You have to be cowboy up. You've got to have confidence and a sense of who you are. You need to know that you were the best you could be." Students were given a chance to ask questions of the professors about the honor and judicial system, and about cheating in general. Each student in attendance was given a pamphlet entided Avoiding Plagiarism: A Guide for Longnood
Students, which contained helpful hints for students on topics such as when and when not to cite sources used. It also had websites listed that can show students how to make a proper MLA format bibliography, as well as several examples of how and how not to do so. The attendance at this presentation was fairly high, and those who attended the program seemed to learn a lot of important information about not only how cheating will affect their career at Longwood, but how it will affect the rest of their lives as well.
Hi-Tecn Grassroots Lobbying Press Re/ease
One day, young voters may visit Ashley Boyd in the General Assembly to ask her help in funding Virginia's public colleges and universities. But now, Boyd is doing the lobbying. She's among the leaders of a statewide student coalition that's trying, among other things, to
boost state funding of higher education by $398 million. The nonpartisan group is called the 21st Century Virginia Coalition, or Virginia21 for short. It's an outgrowth of the Students of Virginia Political Action Committee, which was founded in May 2002 at the College of William and Mary. See VIRGINIA p.5
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Longwood s College of Education Scores Higk The UAB will meet in University's reputation for the March, 2004, to consider the best teacher preparation in the recommendations of the team Commonwealth," stated Dr. Once again Longwood and to make the final decision Patricia Cormier, president of University has proven itself as . on accreditation. I-x>ngwood. NCATE has accredited a leader in the preparation of "The NCATE team left with 1-ongwood since 1954, when a convincing impression of professional educators. On Thursday, October 30, I-ongwood was one of the first Longwood. .They talked about the joint accreditation team six institutions accredited the quality of our students, the representing the National nationwide. dedication of our faculty and "The tradition of preparing how well they worked together. Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) high quality education profes- The committee was also truly and the Virginia Department sionals is embedded into the impressed with our Board of of Education, released the fabric and culture of the Visitors involvement in the report it will give the NCATE I-ongwood community and in process." Elated with the committee's Unit Accreditation Board our school division partners," the Dean of the College of findings, Dean McCullough (UAB) and the state Board of and Human commended the extraordinary Education, verifying that Education I-ongwood University met all Services, Dr. Sue McCullough, teamwork and dedication of the faculty and staff. NCATE and Commonwealth said. "This NCATE recommeneducator preparation standation confirms Longwood See SPIRIT p.4 dards. Jennifer Wall UJ Public Relations