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WORLIWRAP Earth Day 1993 sees ozone still shrinking WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth Day was celebrated around the world last week, but not everyone was optimistic about the planet's future. In Washington, researchers released a report that shows the protective ozone layer of the atmosphere dropped torecord-low concentrations last year with the biggest decline over North America, Europe and parts of Asia. J.F. Gleason, a scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said measurements in December and January by a satellite showed the ozone layer was thinner than in any previous measurements.
Unemployment claims escalate, report shows WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits shot up by 26,000 last week, the government said last week in areport seen as the latest sign of slack job growth. "Labor market conditions remain sluggish," said economist Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch & Co. New applications for unemployment insurance totaled 359,000 last week, up from a revised 333,000 the week ending April 10, the Labor Department reported. The department originally estimated that April 10 claims totaled 335,000. Steinberg said the recent trend hi jobless claims suggested the creation of about 135,000 new jobs in April— less than half those produced in the months following previous recessions.
Holocaust museum opens WASHINGTON — (AP) A half century and a world away from the gas chanbers of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Chelmno, a new Holocaust museum was dedicated last week to teach future generations the lessons of what one survivor called "the black hole in time, the black hole in history." Before 7,000 people, many of them survivors of the concentration camps erected by Nazi Germany in World War H with a mission to exterminate the Jews, cam a repeated admonition: Never again. The museum reminds the world "again and again how fragile are the safeguards of civilization," President Bill Clinton said. See World Wrap, page 7
TUESDAY April 27, 1993
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Honor code approved Proposal goes to Nigh for ratification By Roy Howe Staff Writer
The University of Central Oklahoma Faculty Senate approved unanimously last week a proposal designed to help curb cheating by students at the university. If approved by George Nigh, UCO president, the "Student Honor Code" proposal would place the following statement on the UCO application for admission form and the enrollment form which is signed by students: "If admitted to the University of Central Oklahoma, I understand that dishonesty, such as cheating, violating the integrity of examinations, plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to university faculty or staff is unacceptable behavior.
"In addition," the proposal reads, "forgery, alteration, damage or misuse of official university documents, records or identification cards or devices will not be tolerated. "Violation of this trust may result in action being taken against me by the university up to and or including expulsion." The proposal, which came out of the senate's committee of academic affairs, is intended to help explain what constitutes student deceit and results from a national survey that shows classroom cheating is escalating. "It (honor code) points out what cheating is," said David Bass, chairman of the committee. "Such as plagiarism, cheating in one culture may not be cheating in this culture. "There has been a general increase of cheating nationwide," Bass said. "We would like to curb this locally.
"This is by no means to say that a lot of people at UCO are cheating," he said. "It was found that schools with honor codes have less cheaters." Bass said that the severity of punishment for being caught cheating rests with the instructor and hinges on the act. "It's up to the professor," he said. "They could ignore it, they could penalize the student on the exam, or if they wanted to pursue it, they could ask that the student be removed from class or removed from the university," he said. "Obviously, a student caught breaking into a professor's office and stealing an exam for the third time is more severe as compared to a student caught looking over at another student's paper, " Bass said. The proposal now goes to Nigh where he can either approve it, disapprove it or remand the proposal back to the senate for further work.
BSU honors student with scholarship By Joyce Kirtley Student Writer
The Baptist Student Union at the University of Central Oklahoma has decided to offer an annual scholarship to students starting this fall. The scholarship is in memory of UCO student Fronie Brennan, who was killed in a head-on collision Jan. 29. The scholarship is funded by Brennan's friends and family and will be given to two students in the amount of $250, said Charles Lillard, director of the BSU. The scholarship committee is comprised of Mike Lehew, BSU president; Mark Herron and Randy Ice, faculty sponsors; Marvele Perry, Brennan's aunt and Alan Piatt. The committee will vote each spring on who the recipient will be for the fall. To qualify, the student should display high moral values, be an active member of a local church, have maintained at least a 2.0 grade point average and actively involved in the BSU. "Fronie was a hardworking student, basically on her own. She struggled financially and had an obsession to obtain her degree. The recipient will be a lot like Fronie, " said Lillard. The scholarship fund already has $2000, and if we reach $10,000, we'd like to make it an endowment, said Lillard. "Right now, we'll just take it one year at a time," said Lillard. Anyone wanting to contribute to the scholarship fund can send donations to the BSU, P.O. Box 1480, Edmond, OK 73083-1480.
John Martin, J-Bird productions plays hacky sack during the UCO Earth Day celebration. See more Earth Day photos on page 8 and 9. (Photo by Mike Simons)