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December 10, 1981 Page 5 Most med students are cheats CPS school. those who cheat are inclined to take" study Does the evidence of verified CHICAGO, ILL .- Most medical In addition, 88 percent of all med a cynical attitude toward cheating" as "He included everything that could cheating mean many patients in school students are cheats, eccoro- students admitted to having cheated a means of getting ahead. poSSibly be construed as dishonesty. America are placing their lives in the ing to a new survey by a University of as undergrads as well "I don't think things are that bad," such as a student's including an hands of less-than-competent ooc- Chicago Medical School professor On the other hand, only two percent counters Fredericka Oakley, ccorina- article in a bibliography that he or tors? Highly doubtful. says Oakley The study indicates a majority of confessed to habitual cheating during tor 01 medical education research at she hadn't actually read. If one uses "All med students have to take two future MDs engage in occasional their med scnooi tenure, according to the University of California School of that kind of standard, one's inevitably nationwide exams before a board of forms of cheating while in school Sierles Medicine at Davis. and a friend of going to get a very high percentage" medical examiners, the first after two The study, conducted by psychiatry The survey also indicated 'students Sierles. "In my opinion, 58 percent "ro say that cheating on a trivial years of basic science, and the professor Frederick Sier1es among who cheated during tneir first two seems a very high number. I don't level does go on a lot at medical second after two years of clinical students at the Chicago Medical years in medical school were likely to doubt (Sierles') statistics, but the schools," Oakley concedes, "but we experience. About 20 percent ncr- School and Loyola of Chicago's cheat during their subsequent two study involved only 428 students at don't run Into a lot of it because it's mally fail the first time." Stntcf School of Medicine found that years of clinical training on hospital two schools, and that's not a very something we usually can't detect "The exams are vitually cheat- 58 percent of students at the two wards -- usually through inadequate high number. Yet it's very rare that students at proof," she insists. "I could probably schools had cheated at one time or or missed examinations of individual Oakley feels Sierles used too broad Davis do it habitually, and we almost cheat on them to some degree, but a anomer during their time in med patients The study concludes that a range to define '"cheating" in his always find out about those who do " medical student certainly can't" Publisher makes start In college know that all bad things come to an All told, "students are given an It was on campus that "I learned "Some people come away so dis- end." unfair rap right now. -rnevre seen as how to think If fact, everything I've satisfied with college," he advises, NEW YORK, NY·-Each month Es- His voice trails. "But then. so do all more materialistic than they really done in business is based on how I "but they don't realize every college quire magazine goes wide-eyed and good thing..." are" came to perceive the world as a experience, no matter where you go, tentatively out on a print date with an For 13-30, however, the good But Moffitt doesn't ignore the rap. student" has in it wnat is you. It's not easy to I attractive actess, and so it was that things remain undiminished. Mike either. '"We pater to it to some Those perceptions weren't always find," he notes sagely like a guru, we went to see Philip Moffitt, who is Collins, 13-30's former exectuive vice degree." For example America, a right. "We learned through trial and "but it is there" not only Esquire's editor, but co- president, estimates the company's travel magazine. deals less with error. When we started our business, Many people certainly doubted his founder of what may be the biggest annual growth af 30 percent Nutshell . "bumming around" as it might have we had the wrong ad rates and ways ability to rejuvenate a revered maga- student--oriented publishing empire in alone grosses $1.6 million per year. ten years ago, and more with struc- of doing business that cost us end- zine like Esquire, which after a dtsnn- America. Moffitt and co-conspirator But Nutshell isn't alone in the 13-30 tured student vacations. less amouniS of money" quished history had resisted efforts to Christopher Whittle produce every- stable. It publishes magazines like Moffitt is clearly anxious to conmu- revive it by a series of new owners. thing from "Good Stuff" packages of Graduate. 18 Almanac, New Mar- Moffitt himself is no longer the nicate what he's learned. He takes a But since taking the magazine over samples that greet you when you riages, Sourcebook, Destinations, creative head of all the magazines, graybeard's view toward his campus two years ago, Whittle and Moffitt check into your dorm to Nutshell America. New Parent and, among preferring to dedicate himself to Es- readers. "Students make sacrifices have doubled the number of sub- magazines and newspaper supple- other, Young Miss. All are aimed at quire his company's first loray out of they don't need to, and then they all scriptions and given it a new, if not ments that tell you what 10 do while . the same ta-te-au-veer old age the college market. Four groups of have regrets because they didn't universally accepted. editorial bent you're there to Graduate Magazine group. editors now provide the creative im- listen to themselves, to what they one critic initially dubbed as part of a for when you leave. In all, there are "Atter surveying students constantly petus for the college products. really wanted and needed" ~~~_!lntalily." 15 magazines and a book. for ten years," Moffitt says, '"we But Moflitt dreams of returning to Moffitt, if not his readers, seems probably know more about high campus. perhaps as an adminstrator taken aback by his new status, which school students and colleges than Education and education reform are \\'t'!-Ol'l1in~tl'r (;old and SilverExchange I is vastly different from when he and anyone in the country" his '"first and longest love" DON7 SELL FOR LESS Whittle started publishing a local student magazine at the University of Tennessee. He looks puzzled when JEWELRY • WATCHES • DIAMONDS asked how he got into the business "I never meant to be a publisher," he insists. "I always wanted 10 be a lawyer, Ihen a psychologist, but I "Supplies a.qd Handcrafted gifts P,n·in)!;in\'a,h·~ L'her-k und Compare never thought of publishing for busi- available for that special person." Carroll C~unt.Y·s Largest Oold & Silver Dealer ness 6!-1West Main Street Moffitt was working in the University Westmin ...ter, Md. of Tennessee administration in 1968 Counted Thread when he and Whittle, both former Decker Center open 4:30 p.m. aware of the need to provide lncom- ,===n:80::':c:c:re:te:'I:c===========::; INDOOR MINIATURE student body president, "became ing students with akind of survival r guide to the school, it's activities, and GOLF (to) surrounding Knoxville," he re- calls Look beyond graduation So they assembled Knoxville' in a at Nutshell, and made $2000. Encour- -learn a skill. aged. the partners expanded the Putter's Palace Inc. concept to 19 other college towns -- and lost $60,000 They kept their fledgling company, which they named the 13-30 Corpora- 202 Pennsylvania Ave. tion, alive for three years in the red, thanks to "an understanding banker (corner of Sullivan Ave) and a patient printer." In 1973, the abolished the local Nutshell editions in favor 01a general information format for 100 coHege communities. They made a hefty 9rand Opening! $30.000 profit. Moffitt remembers. It "was a cause lor great celebre- Friday, December 18 tion. It justified us as people" But it's rot cause for nostalgia, "I was sick to my stomach every day After commencement, successcomes faster to those Open Weekdays 3·10 p.m. back then," be says. "We knew it with both a diploma and a useful skill. The Army snoutd work, but we didn't know it Weekends 9 a.m.-Midnight would" offers more than 200 skill training programs. Look Now Moffitt sits in Ilis Park Avenue ahead. Serve your country as you serve yourself. ARMY. offices surrounded by the trappings Look for WMC Specials ~~~~i~:'i~o;~~~r;i:,,~~~n:;;~'~ BE ALL YOU CAN BE. during January Term those early years. "Of course when , , ~~~:'~~~~~~~0~16dl~~;r~~:{f~~ -L'..:.i c_a_I_I_8_7_6_-_69_2_9 __.