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Show d FEATURES Nom (, malt y. - 4 tudents save program DSU is implementing to aid students in purchasing textbooks, she BYJONN HOLLAND Trippyjedi said. "What we are doing now is, any professor that is requiring an access code, we have now partnered with a number of publishers to do what's called inclusive access," West said. "That is where the price has been drastically reduced, the students would go to their Canvas account...where they would have access on their first day and their My Dixie account would be charged a course fee." Students asked about inclusive access weren't aware of it, but they spoke of other ways they save on text books; one of those ways is by shopping online. "I use Amazon and then I search for the cheapest book," said Ryley Lyons, a freshman elementary education major from Salt Lake City. "They're not always in, like, perfect condition, but I think I had six text books and they were, like, $175 in total versus $300." Shanna Gibb, a junior Purchasing textbooks at the start of a semester is inevitable. Often, required texts are expensive, motivating students to seek cheaper alternatives to buying the books they need. Course reading material can be expensive. According to the website for Dixie State University's campus store, the textbook for cellular biology course 3550 is $122.50 brand new. Other texts on the website are similarly priced for new copies. Used books are available on the website and at the store, such as "Boxing a Plato's Shadow" Comm for text required 2700 which sells for $12.95. Textbook manager Claudia West said the price of texts depends on what a professor orders from the publisher. She said if the ordered rial requires an access code, the book must be sold at the publisher's price. There is a new 0 513 Y rtrin Di .4 bks El t"o:eltt!:' communication major from Stansbury Park, said she price checks her texts to see what her options are. She said she goes on Amazon, to the campus store and chegg.com to see who has the best price. The difference in i 1 i price is between $5 and $10. 1' - ,,,,1 ., USED , "My best luck is chegg. , i corn where you just go online rent it for the USED r''T semester and then send it USED 4tJ back," Gibb said. "They r Feter kubino don't charge you shipping , 1 at all, you just go on and get it. Sometimes the campus store is cheaper USED ; to rent." A major reason books 2 :F.o.K4.Eb , are so expensive now is t STUDENT i due to publishers not hay, ill WORKBOOK 114;""12I'A to ing the ability publish 3! books in smaller quanti- - 2 ties, West said. Twenty years ago, publishers were able to print 10,000 , books, then print more as Purchasing textbooks each semester is often required for some courses. Dixie State University needed, she said. Today, offers the opportunity to purchase used books, which can reduce the price drastically. to have print publishers text books they need and all of the copies that have "Sometimes it's nice to ful," Gibb said. decide if they will need to Students can look at been ordered at once to get used because sometake advantage of cheaper their schedule as early as times you can get stucompete with the availsethe online two before that who weeks have books dent's compaoptions or order new ability books from the campus nies like Amazon provide, written in side notes, or mester begins, West said. store for delivery or pick This way, students can different things in the making the cost go up, she said. know in advance which textbook that I find help up, she said. I 1 , ,, . i . ,, 4 ,. ,';ifilA','Iill-l- Students often hear they should fill out course evaluations at the end of the semester to help gauge faculty i I , , t k'Nli n. , 11 to t , . tl.iL1114 A0; r .. .,,-- ..-- --, : . ,e ,. , 4,' aiillnek ,,,, a ,' f4,-1.- . , l', ' ' ' Y , , - ? N,,,.., 1,, , Si, 2' 1,,,..:,,,, --- , 4?..,,- ', - Raittki 1111111111L ,,dia,age, 1 -, 7 t; om 600A1. klErMA. pp, ,,,-,- - he takes the 66 So, when students say nobody looks at them u:hat's complete crap 1 comments seriously, and if several stdents ask for something like a quiz Wa tween Curt tests, he "So, when of chair the would see how students say university faculty review could make he looks nobody committee it happen in at them that's his classes. complete 954 The answers crap," Walker area analyzed based on a said. "Believe me, I've few factors, which include looked at tens and thousands the amount of evaluations of them. People do look at returned, the number of them, absolutely." students in the class, and the More people than professtudents' bias, etc., he said. sors look at the answers, he Lacourse said he is not said. The answers can add to the professors' portfolio, surprised that the numbers of responses have dropped behelp them to be promoted, cause students just forget or become tenured or even both do not want to fill them out. in a few cases, he said. In the fall of 2016 there Linda Rogers, associwere ate professor of computer 10,655 course evaluations returned from students. information systems, said the "The course evaluations are anonymous," Rogers said. Maybe students need to remember or even know that it's anonymous, she said. The evaluations go through a third party and students' names are not included, so more students should fill them out, she said. Lacourse said there are several ways to try and improve how the evaluations are done but that it is a work in progress right now. ,I .2 a ( , P3 1 A LAACIIE i t ,. L Yet) tr 1 - ' - 10'( w ,4,qi " DIKOL12) A , vorto OP A CAI WAtt, GO WRAC ''."-k- .' g) i , , ' lk , ( ..' :S.:''' E . . COZS PI FIEALLY MAITIO? 4,55' , ,4L i I ',, 1 2.,,..t. :, '',. ', .P.'; '' - ....7. ' 1 ILL At-'(!- !' rt4e 5AME PREON:11015 Mail It4fE EVERY YEAR?' WYE COMIANY ,, 7'.' - i ita ' r SEE PEGAE 60Ae9t-ALON G, POutkAt. tj1 it el f dia '4 1 7Le -- ' , ,' ,it.,. ,,,,,,..,;,..,, fat iPhone update allows for screen-tim- e tracking KellySeatonDSN way. li, ( 'Nil( ,' , !- val. I 6to FER A (WA AZIACR i - - ' BY KELLY SEATON The number started to drop in the spring of 2018 with only 6,820 students filling them out. The summer of 2017 had 709 returned. The fall of 2017 there were 8,773. The spring of 2018 had even less with 8,199 responses. The summer of 2018 had a small increase than last summer with 759 returned. This fall's evaluations will be counted after Dec. 9. Rogers said that most students do not fill out their course evaluations and the response rate is getting lower. She said that she thinks students have a fear that the professor will know what the student said, but that the students should not feel that . AcfaEsary Witt IJNWI5E4Y 105f 50mETKING P , ',.'''. P0,01115, YeAte.. New ,,,. . CrtE)45ME '''' THE . - i : tiOns. ''' ,,,,s,,i, - ,,,o, 7177 , ,,, '' coolvoymy ksi aPtet ' 11(44,,t- i'411.flt' ASKEG YOG .R.EPF EGZ YOUR rELL uS INHAT emziN CAN ''',1,- ','--'',' , adjust his classes. He said he thinks students should fill out course evalua-- 1 1 ::: c- ,n. x2, , F - IliXf'S'TOF , , , tr ,ZY,i t''''' performance and improve future classes, but many aren't filling them out. .Athol, Michael Lacourse, provost and vice president of acat 7 demic affairs, said it helps when students take their time I to fill out the evaluations. The -zE affect the will evaluations not students in the classes that semester, but will affect the students that take that course evaluations affect professors' in the future, he said. course prep work. She said Curt Walker, chair of the the evaluations help profesuniversity faculty review sors change their classes for committee and professor the better. of biology, said the course evaluations help professors Only the faculty get the when they apply for tenure or answers of the course evaluations, Walker said. He said promotions. after all the finals are done, Walker said in previous looks at the response for he there a was years larger so he knows what he trends student return rate and more needs to improve on. He said comments that helped him ) '''' ,,,,,,,,,,OPri-,:- 1,Itilit411111 '',10.11141'1$ ? , BY KATRINA KELLER 1- ..111 P, Course evaluations yield results (c1.101,,!),D? A ,. . KatDixieSun : 4 , 41 lot k There's a stigma that younger generations spend far more time on their phones than older generations. However, there was no definitive way to determine just how much time a user is spending on their phone. Enter iOS 12, and one of its several updated features: the Screen Time menu. This feature, introduced on Sept. 17, breaks down how much time an iPhone user spends on their phone daily. In addition to that, it shows what apps they're using the most through percentages. Hermione Maloney, a d biolsophomore from ogy major Albuquerque, New Mexico, said she definitely believes younger generations spend more time on their phones. "The younger people grew up with this technology at their fingertips and adapt easier to the new technology," Maloney said. Maloney was surprised at how much time she actually spends on her phone. Before checking her Screen Time app, she pre-me- believed she spent around three hours a day on her phone. "1 use it mostly for streaming and everyday use," she said. However, her screen time report said her average is between seven and eight hours of usage per day. thought I was pretty good about not being on my phone," Maloney said. "1 was wrong." Drew Wilcox, director of the physical therapist assistant program, said he thought he only spent around 15 hours a week on his phone. His app, on the other hand, reported he spent 19 hours and 25 minutes in the previous seven days. Wilcox said he would expect younger generations and older generations' usages to be about the same. Maloney said Apple, and other large companies for that matter, market most of their products and advertisements toward younger generations, so it's no surprise that younger generations use technology more. Carla Navarette, a freshman mechanical engineering major from St. George, said she thinks younger genera "1 tions spend more time on their phones, but marginally so. Navarette said she expected to spend an average of two hours a day on her phone, but her report stated four hours. She said she was surprised at this difference. Wilcox said he believes the rise of phones and students on their screens in the classroom is a good thing, depending on how students use it. "I've personally seen students get distracted by social media and other games," Wilcox said. "But there's so many other good apps for students to use out there." Wilcox said he suggests students spend more time on educational and research apps. He said he personally recommends iOrtho and Grey's Anatomy to his students. Though most data suggests that Gen Z uses smartphones more than any other generation, there's no denying that we're living in a d technology-dominate- society. This addition of the Screen Time feature may help users take a step back and reexamine just how much time they're spending on their ,' |