Crowd jeers born-again evangelist
Preacher decries drugs, lust, rock
By Eric Vincent
Assistant City Editor
Over 300 students were drawn to Tommy Trojan at noon Thursday when a born-again evangelist began preaching to the students present.
Holding a Bible in one hand and gesturing with the other, evangelist George Smock proclaimed the four sources of sin for college students — drunkenness, lust, rock and roll and drugs.
Smock was largely greeted by jeers from the crowd. Lust, sex were yelled by students.
“Very little of what he’s saying makes sense. Just because people use drugs or listen to rock and roll, he says there are going to Hell. That's ridiculous,” said Bruce
Daily, a sophomore in speech communications.
Smock attacked various religions and minorities in the course of his self-described class.
“There will be some Catholics in heaven, some in hell, some protestants in heaven, some in hell . . . but all Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists will wind up in hell because they don’t believe in Jesus as the Son of God," Smock said.
At one point, members of the audience began throwing coins at the speaker.
The university policy concerning speakers on campus states that a permit must be obtained and will only be issued if the speaker or speakers are part of a recognized campus group, said Clyde Smith, who is the individual in charge of
the issuance of such permits.
One of the individuals who accompanied Smock told security officers that he had applied for a permit, but not for the purpose of allowing Smock to speak. He refused to identify himself or the organization he represented.
After speaking for over 45 minutes, members of University Security escorted Smock to a Security vehicle and drove him to
his car.
Two students, who wanted only to be identified as Jennifer and Paul K„ said they had heard Smock speak at the University of Illinois last year.
“He's preaching the same gospel as last year. He's got the same approach of “I’ve seen the light, now let me show you the light’... He's like the swallows returning to Capistrano, telling the same jokes, the same occurrences of his life — it’s like a bad dream.”
Smock said he has been to over 200 campuses around the country. In response, one student in the crowd jeered. “He’s probably been thrown of off most of them.”
Doubt raised in cheating survey
Some doubt has been raised as to the validity of the results of a survey which indicates a large percentage of university students cheat.
The report, taken by the Academic Affairs Committee, contains several questions which are ambiguous or misleading. Robert Baker, chairman of the committee, said. *
For example, question #4 asks: “If you have ever cheated, check one reason from those below which best describes your reason for cheating."
The first response said: “Have not cheated." Thirty-five percent of the 795 students polled checked that response.
Baker said that this could be interpreted to mean 6.5 percent of the respondents have cheated, although the question does not make clear whether the cheating occurred at the university.
“It doesn’t ask when they cheated, whether it was at the university or in elementary school,” said Joe Smock, a student senator and member of the committee.
“All we are interested in is that items with technical flaws not be taken out of context,” Baker said.
He said that it would be easy for local newspapers to sensationalize the result of that and other questions, which the members of the committee agree were not scientific.
“Most students are not even acquainted with what the university considers cheating." Smock said.
The student guidebook SCampus lists cheating as an act of dishonesty along with plagiarism, falsification of official records, theft, and evasion of financial obligations.
The survey was taken in part from one conducted at Stanford University and was constructed by Robert Mannes, dean of Student Life, in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Studies.
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Juniors must get credit evaluations; checks take four months to complete
ESCORT SERVICE? — Born-again evangelist George Smock is escorted off campus by a security officer while shouting against vices.
By Susan Goebel
StafT Writer
Juniors who expect to graduate by June 1982 must have their credits evaluated to verify that they have met all of the university’s requirements. The check generally takes four months to complete.
Senior credit checks do not involve simply counting the students credits and coming up with a total, explained Debra Smith, supervisor of undergraduate counselors.
“Most students have individual programs and we have to treat them as individuals," Smith said.
The graduation department in the registrar’s office does the senior credit checks and clears each student for graduation.
preparing commencement lists, posting grades and working with reigstration.
A staff of five people check the records for three graduation classes, 15.000 students, each year. “The volume of the work is out of proportion to the staff,” Smith said.
“Before checking credits, we need to have received the student's transfer record,” Smith said. Problems with transfer credits take up a lot of time. For general education requirements, a counselor must check into the guidelines from the Academic Standards Commission to see if a class will transfer to the university.
For credits in a student's major, a counselor has to be aware of
curriculum changes within certain departments, to check the standards of that student’s year.
After validating each credit, manually, they are counted and the total is written on a 3x5 card, along with a list of the dasses needed for graduation. As these classes are completed, they are checked off on the card.
Most of the counselor's time is spent on individual counseling. The staff does counseling for half a day. They receive phone calls throughout the day. “It leaves little time for paperwork," Smith said.
Time is a problem for many students. who need to knoe what classes are missing to graduate.
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