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The student voice of Hutchinson Community College
December 1, 2017
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Vol. 59 Issue 11
Cheating on finals: a widespread problem By Merissa Anderson Collegian Editor
Winter break is less than a week away, and while most students would rather be celebrating the end of the first semester of this school year, many are instead busy hitting the books before the college hell week packed full with finals for every class. Of course, as many students and teachers would agree, the undeniably best way to confidently pass your finals is to review past exams, show up to class throughout the semester and to thoroughly study notes before the final exam. Despite these option, cheating is still extremely prevalent in today’s college sphere, with nearly 75 percent of college students admitting to cheating according to a study by The Boston Globe. Student Perspective Hutchinson Community College student and football player, Ta’Juan Williams of Daytona Beach, Florida, has seen the creative ways that students cheat on homework and tests in college. “I’ve seen some crazy stuff,” Williams said. “I’ve seen teachers look straight at a person while the person is throwing up the answers with their hands from across the room and then look straight at the teacher and the teachers aren’t even paying attention.”
Williams doesn’t support cheating but sympathizes with those who are cornered into doing so. “People cheat for their grade,” Williams said. “Not everybody is the same and not everybody has the mentality to sit in a classroom and learn like everybody else does.” Despite understanding students’ reasoning behind cheating, Williams in no way encourages it. “I’m not saying it’s a good thing to cheat but say you don’t know nothing at all, you’re not very talented in the classroom, then what’s your options?” Williams said. “You can either bomb the test or try to pass it by cheating.” Williams also warns students of the repercussions that come along with cheating on college work. “Getting kicked out of college for cheating isn’t anybody’s fault but yours,” Williams said. “If you don’t get caught, you’re going to feel very guilty about that but suck it up and say ‘hey, I got away with it this time but maybe next time I won’t have to do it and maybe next time there won’t be a next time.’” Ultimately, Williams recommends that students simply buckle down and study so they won’t have to spend winter break regretting their decision to cheat. “Just study,” Williams said. “Study hard and put the electronics down and
Photo Illustration by Merissa Anderson/Collegian Editor According to a study by the Boston Globe, nearly 75 percent of students admit to cheating at some point on college level work. Although it may be a sly way to earn a better grade, the repercussions can be devastating. and part-time math instructhat would try to write If a student does get into your books. It’s tor and oversees the math on their arms or write in choose to cheat during finals week and you get to tutoring lab. on their caps and act like finals or any other time go home for a whole month Apart from the they’re thinking and flip the during the school year and there ain’t no sense in usual cellphones used for cap over or slip their sleeve and gets caught, punishreminiscing a whole month cheating, Shea has also up.” ment could range from a about what you coulda, witnessed a variety of With the amount of zero on the assignment woulda, shoulda did. If you creative ways that students work that it takes to cheat, to being expelled from want to cheat, don’t cheat have tried to get away with Shea recommends simply college. study. It’s the hardest thing cheating. studying. “Students can get an to do but you’ve got to have “We’ve had a student “First of all, cheating automatic zero on exams, that attention span to pass.” come in with problems takes a lot of effort because and really it’s up to the Staff Perspective written on pieces of paper you have to be very creative teachers digression,” Shea If studying isn’t makand we asked them what and you spend a lot of time said. ing the class material easier they were and he said that doing that,” Shea said. “I “If you take it over to to understand, then the free they were problems that he would just recommend, the president they could be tutoring services in the made up and he just wanted rather than cheating, spend removed from the college Rimmer Learning and Reto see if he could work time going back through and expelled which means source Center may be able through them but they were all of the old homeworks they would lose their scholto assist with understanding actually from a take-home assignments and exams and arships and be kicked out what will be on the finals. test,” Shea said. coming to our math lab and of the dorms in a worst case Kimberly Shea is a “We’ve had students getting some help.” scenario.” HutchCC Paraprofessional
Women spend more on shoes? Times have changed By Brenna Eller Opinion Page Editor
The myth that women buy more shoes than men is out the window now. Since Michael Jordan’s sneakers, Air Jordans, it seems that guys are inclined to buy more athletic shoes
than women are to buying high heels. In fact, the thought of women purchasing pumps is inaccurate in today’s society as well. Many women pay for comfort over fashion now. A student at Hutchin-
Taylor James/Courtesy Photo These are only some of the shoes Taylor James has. He has a wide variety of shoes from sandals to sneakers. Two of his favorites are displayed on their boxes.
son Community College is one of many guys that own several pairs of athletic shoes. His name is Taylor James, from Jetmore. “I started buying shoes senior year of high school,” James said. He is now up to about 20 pairs. Athletic shoes have also become very expensive lately. “My favorite brand is Nike,” James said. Stated on Forbes. com, in an article titled: The World’s Most Valuable Sports Brands, Nike shoes are one of the highest athletic brand names, and range from $80 and higher if they are brand new. James bought a pair of Gold Jordan 11’s/ retro shoes for $200. It may
sound like a lot, but there is much higher than that, price wise. Ever seen or heard a guy freak out about his new shoes getting dirty or wet? It is common with high school and college males to get upset when they have a spot of dirt on their brand new Jordans. With shoes being so expensive, it is no wonder men feel the need to take care of them like they are their pride and joy. However, this isn’t directed to all males in this age range. There are also guys who couldn’t care less and have about two or three decent pair of shoes and for cheap prices. Another HutchCC student, Dusty Page from
Little River, shared his views on buying shoes. Unlike James, he prefers purchasing his shoes via thrift stores and second-hand stores. “When I buy shoes, I think about the price and don’t normally spend over $50 because I like bargains from Goodwill or discount racks in any shoe store,” Page said. Women still tend to purchase a large sum of shoes, but not as much as they used to according to executivestyle.com. The web site states, “Women’s sales are shrinking as men’s continue to rise, in both revenue and number of pairs sold.” When there are so many new athletic shoes
being made, it is hard for some to resist the temptation of buying the newest, coolest thing. Catalogs, magazines, and commercials make new shoes harder to stay away from. There are several categories that shoes fall under, that being said, it is common to have shoes for any kind of sporting event or outdoors activity. Whether you are the male who pays a good sum of money for a pair of brand new Nike’s and cleans their shoes often, or are the one that has only a few pairs of shoes, but pays less than half of what the other does, shoes are shoes, it just depends on the person wearing the shoes.
CAMPUS BEAT (Teacher Edition) Upcoming events
What is the most unique way you’ve caught a student cheating?
Dec. 1 — Symphonic Band and Concert Choral concert, 7:30 at Stringer Fine Arts Center Dec. 2 — Salt City Bowl vs. Eastern Arizona, 1-4 at Gowans Stadium Dec. 4-8 —Finals week, classes on finals schedule Dec. 9 — Women’s Basketball vs. Barton, 5:30 p.m. in Sports Arena Dec. 9 — Men’s Basketball vs. Barton, 7:30 p.m. in Sports Arena
“I had a student write some stuff on a stick of gum and then rewrapped the gum. I simply told the student to chew it before he had a chance to read it. There was blue all in his mouth.”
“I had a student put their cell phone inside their calculator cover so it appeared as though they were using their calculator; however, they were actually using their phone to cheat.”
— Dave Neufeldt, Psychology
— Terri McQueen, Algebra
“The introduction to a student’s research paper said that he had used 1,500 participants in his study. The student had copied the first sentence of every paragraph from the dissertation. He had no argument about receiving a 0.” — Brian Nuest, Psychology
“I once had a student take a makeup test. He got the original test from a friend and memorized all of the answers. The makeup test was not the same as the original, so he missed every single question.” — Allen Pinkall, Algebra
“The saddest method I’ve run across was someone that was writing about integrity and they plagiarized a speech by a senator that gave the speech. They were expelled from class.” — Frances Johannesen, English