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Angelica Owens

Staff Writer

 

In late February, It was discovered by the SLA staff that pictures of a recent physics quiz were being circulated to juniors via text message. Once Principal Lehmann was informed, he sat down the entire junior class to discuss academic integrity and also informed them that the entire grade would be earning a “first strike” according to the policy.  All juniors also had to retake the quiz over again.

 

To measure student opinion on the events and punishment, SLAMedia  surveyed juniors, asking numerous questions about the situation and what happened. We asked them questions about what was fair in regards to the punishment, if they thought most of the juniors knew about what happened, etc.

 

The results of the survey overwhelmingly showed that a lot of students felt that the punishment was unfair while others thought the punishment was fair.

 After reviewing the results of the survey, I then interviewed Mr. Lehmann, to see his view on the data that was presented to him and to see his reactions.  Here are the questions and his answers below…

 

What are your reactions to the data?

    I think what is interesting about it is that there is no negative thing if no one plagiarized and as we did investigation there were other instances of plagiarizing and that it was enough times that it required more of an action.

 

How do you feel about the fact that 93% of the students who answered number 2 said that students will not cheat regardless and that culture and trust doesn’t encourage it?

     I think that is really important. That speaks to as a community that they are adult values and on some level it requires us to ask why did we see that the situation happened. I spoke to some students who admitted that they were in the text chain and said to me”when we were confronted about it, they felt like they let their school down” and when the whole class had to recognize what they did was wrong.

 

What would you like to say about the fact that only 19% of the students who answered number 3 said that they don’t think most the juniors knew about the cheating situation in Physics?

    I don’t know. I am not sure. I think what is interesting is that I don’t know what to make of it. I will say that if even 20% of the kids knew that it was a widespread cheating going on why would they not say anything about it. If 25 kids in the junior class knew about it, what is the critical mass that no one did anything about it to say this is to much.

 

How does the subject of Physics make it more common for people to even think about cheating?

It depends on the thing. One, physics is known to be a hard class. Two, quizzes where there is a question with a right answer it makes it more common. We as a school can be understanding of it but it doesn’t make it acceptable.

 

Has anyone came to you before in past years about cheating in physics, or other subjects? If so, what was the situation that occurred?

        Not in any widespread way. There has been plagiarizing but we haven’t been in any situation before where there are numerous people involved in such a widespread way.

 

Staff Writer

Corinthia Bell

When was the last time you watched a horror movie? Was it at home? or in the theatres? If so, then you’ve might have or have not been scared watching it. Of what you saw was what today’s movies has to offer, entertainment in horror. No matter where you watched, you may be surprised to know, what you watched is just the same like 65 years ago.

“No waay,” you’re thinking. “movies today are more developed and realistic looking than they were then”. Okay, so maybe the blood and gore looks a little less fake. But the themes in horror movies are exactly the same. They’re the same because they have this effect upon people, that makes them feel “shivery of freight” in some form of way, for those who carry the same feelings that have been felt before. In which no matter how great or little the fear is, it is still fear.

In the 1950’s, movies were often popular and mainly monster themed, such as The Revenge Of Frankenstein, or It Conquered The World, where there would always be this disastrous creature that’d destroy humanity or the Earth. Which relates to movies today, because there’s always someone or something, there to cause havoc to make horror, such as the movies The Lazarus Effect, Innocence and Crimson Peak.

It is said by Douglas E. Winter, who is a writer upon the art of horror that “Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction, meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special self in libraries and book stores. Horror is an emotion. It can be found in all literature.” Meaning that horror is in everything, because it is something that is felt as an emotion by someone.

Today if the 1950s movies were to be seen, they’d be looked upon as “fake looking” or “just not scary, no stop”, so we’d just find them funny and laugh, thinking that was scary back then. But now, the movies we see are often bloody, more deathly, disturbing, suicidal, and demonistic. Which forms same emotion of freight, of what someone else had years ago.

But the main thing of question, is it seen as appropriate that horror has been so different from what it used to be? Well, for things to be grasped fully and understood with the imagination and the kinds of technology used, they have to be displayed want the horror authors want at all times. The reason of why is because they want you to know truth, of whatever it is of what they want you to feel, so that not only the author knows the overall message but the viewer does too.

For the viewer to know what truth it is to offer, then it’ll help expand the viewer’s knowledge of things in this world so that they can know what is being shared. So it actually is seen as what message the author has, as an artist to share it to the viewer. As a artist, viewers are going to always have a reaction to what they’re seeing because it is the art of horror.

By Google, horror is defined as “an attack of extreme nervousness or anxiety, or and intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.”  Horror today is the way is the what it is, simply because of how the author wants to communicate the displayed hidden truth, and it’s the viewer’s choice to see what they have to offer. So As the years grow, horror movies will always change and be different from the past, but in the end they’re all the same because they’re meant to scare you.