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Show if lit ut.: State College Bldg. logs E orge,UT 84770 4435)652-781- 8 aindixie.edu THE VOICE OF DIXIE STATE COLLEGE OF UTAH 1 r -- c: ' s- V :3 rr "3 r-- " , M ; EL y .7a el. r ' rr a c. j3 ic VOLUME XLI, NO. 2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 ST. GEORGE, UTAH comes true for DSC science buffs iVish -- rsj- - r '' jr .r i S f I ,n c ijv Members of the science department decided it was time to renovate the desertscape garden inside the scier. , building. Read about the process on s page 2. i,. '"' of the Desertscape Garden in the science renovation the and students from work of hours of faonths of planning and thousands faculty, community fcfSK ng yeHfeeCkViW5-T- almost complete. Boasting many varieties of desert wildlife and plant life, the garden will compliment classwork DSC campus and its students. is Cheating still HI from failing the class they cheated in to suspension, they think that taking the Staff Writer semester fagh every ffi begins still one sSt reasons dis-st- it. y of the for Dixie L College students academic Del easy way is worth They want to get a good grade, succeed and move with lectures academic Seating, Beatty, on, Pentz said. re-"'- suspen--sai- d DSCs Jof students. Seating is ;fflgnew, tag that force the be once thought of two sitting next to each brought up The I'm desks no whispering longer tells the fhow k Kathy Kinney, director of the Career Center who taught English for more than caught as often. In high school people get caught a lot more often because it's a smaller group, and teachers know you bet- dishonesty. Possible that ' really students clueless about academic dishonesty is, just not care? , hame wtary 8andy, i",loflike iuig. t Leffler, a semor education said: petty theft or You do it until caught, Dejnies major To me its the and then consequences seem as se- - Necessarily Ushed. tonPentz,afieshman Mory therapy major George, said that students know that ttheY could face se pre-nursi- major from McAlester, Okla., said she felt that compared to high school, cheaters are not ter, she said. One reason for college cheaters not being caught as often as high school cheaters is the many different ways they choose to cheat. Becca Morse, a junior music education major from inBountiful, brought up an creasingly popular way of you are actually al- - if past. Cell phones are one of the main devices that have made the battle against academic ting allows students to send answers to one another. A good study tip so stu- (l actually considered ogy have helped make cheating a thing of the They either dont think they will get caught or they think that they can talk their way out of it if they do get more many new Members of Dixie State College Student Association and the student senate have chosen to keep the current selection process of student academic senators as it is, abandoning a proposed democratic method. phones anywhere, and tex- ways of g, students many may istudy methods they use are fair game while so and give it to friends. Advancements in technol- cheat. caught, Kinney said. Tara Chadsey, a sopho- cheating is cheating that may differ from high school. 1 think a lot of high school cheating happens in school, Morse said. The college cheating happens out of BY RICHARD BRIGGS the same class, and they keep all of the class material dents do not think they will be caught, so they choose to stu- cratic process AND TAYLOR GRIN Dixie Sun Staff dishonesty much more difficult. Students can now access Internet from their said she believes most methods school with friends who have taken classes from the same professor or have taken ss 30 years at both the high school and collegiate level, obviously but it is in--. different ''singly demoprevalent Senator selection fails to vere punishment, ranging DAVIS PAYTON is i dents are not put in a position to cheat was given by Robert J. Comeford, profes- sor of mathematics. Comeford said that in his classes the assignments he gives out are usually due the next class period so iftheycanset aside some time every day for each class they would be able to get all of their homework done and not forget about it. Therefore, students have no need to cheat because there is less pressure to scramble to get work done. Other tips given were to go to the professor if you have any questions, join a study or group, try to read ahead, a calendar of all of your keep classes due dates. It's sad college you should be here because you want to be, but people cheat to take the easy way out, the -- easiest route to the end, Morse said. Academic departments currently select the student senators, but DSCSA and the senate had hoped to make the process open to a student vote. Among the proposed ideas were an affirmation process by the student body, or a primary election among DSCSA and academic departments leading to a general election. "The utopian way we'd like to do this is to have the students' voice in the selection process," said Mick Rhodes, student body vice president and a senior communication major from Bluffdale. "We did policy revision this last Tuesday, and we were supposed to get it all done. The consensus among the senators was we're not to that point yet. As of right now it's going to be left as an ap- pointed position." Rhodes said it's something that could happen pass at a future date, but right now the focus of DSCSA members is to get the students more involved in general presidential elections. Spencer Potter, DSC alumnus and former student senator, said there is another possibility of what will happen next year. "Once senators are recommended by their dean they will then be presented to the students," Potter said. "The students can then voice concern and have some kind of vote. They will ratify the selections made by the deans." Potter said he thought the current system provided an advantage because it kept the senator selection from becoming a popularity contest, but he said he understands there needs to be democracy with choosing senators. Rhodes said he wants there to be a joint interview process between the academic departments and DSCSA. The joint interview process will be for choosing the candidates the students will vote on. Before the democratic option was axed, he argued that more individuals would likely be interested in running for senator positions. ll ! "It will take cooperation with the academic departments," Rhodes said. "People are still trying to figure out how the legislative side works. I first started as a senator, and we didn't have much to do." Rhodes said that by having the students vote for their senators it will raise awareness in students. He said he hopes students will then realize they have a senator that can propose legislation on their behalf. He also said this will help increase the responsibilities of the senators. In addition to increasing the responsibilities of the senators, DSCSA is hoping to include a subcommittee of advisers for each senator so that departments can get widespread representation for their diverse constituents. Fore example, he science senator would have a committee member for biology, chemistry and physics. This is supposed to make the senate more transparent to their constituents and increase the amount of legislation that reaches the senate. This story was published on www dixiesun-lin- k com on May 19, 2011. Additional reportto ing was done m order republish for this issue. vail jilt aWfcWK |