Black leaders discuss Belafonte statement
Black leaders responded to a remark Harry Belafonte made last month that Colin Powell was a "house slave" of President Bush, the Washington Times reported Monday.
According to the Times, Belafonte had said, "There's an old saying, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."
Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr. said he agreed with Belafonte's statement. By contrast, New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel said "ninety percent of the black community wish that Harry Belafonte would have felt it and not said it."
Universities rethink honor systems to deter cheating
More colleges are instituting or buttressing honor codes to deter cheating, the New York Times reported Monday.
A Center for Academic Integrity survey reported that 41 percent of students said that plagiarism on written assignments happened "often or very often," and 30 percent said cheating on tests or exams occurred "often or very often" during the 2001-2002 academic year.
Schools that do not have an honor code tend to have twice as many cheating incidents as those who do, studies showed.
-- Compiled by Abby Fox
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