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Show j. i'i : :'v , ' ; t I w '-- k THE VOICE OF DIXIE STATE COLLEGE OF UTAT UK! I A i A AO l L.;G L; 01 UTA k I AT, VOLUME XXXVII, l!0. GEORGE, UTAH 1 World News ;t ';v' L t C i i i t r still f, ! j building efforts continue ;ree years after the disaster. page V : Nf I ' d f f ' &, J O G ? f; ' L i r i "o' f Katrina remembered hurricane a t A ; 2 News 1 begin new Students year t with carnival School officially starts with activities. page 3 Arts and Entertainment Local artist feature: Curwen Mitchell Student a week text answers to Cell phones become more of a problem in the classroom as students hours spends 25-3- 0 throwing clay. page 6 BY CASIE MCNAUGHTON Dixie Sun Editor in Chief As colleges across the Lifestyles United States begin their fall semester, the issue of cheating arises once more According to www nocheatmg org Academic cheatmg is defined as representing someone else s work as your own It can take many forms, including sharmg another's work, purchasing a term paper or test questions m advance, and paying another to do the work Chinese food restaurants reviewed Local Chinese places to fit a student's budget. Best for you Cheatmg has continued since the 1940s, and students begin cheatmg as young as middle school, according to the page 8 Sports Web site education-porta- l com In fact, 75 to 98 percent of college stu- dents surveyed each year admit to cheating at some time m their academic careers, according to nocheatmg org So has this been an issue at Dixie State . ,. 9 . 4 loses first game 1 Football road Rebels 4-4- 1 host first home Saturday College9 Don Hinton, dean of Education, Humamties, Arts and Social Sciences, said the number of complaints that have been reported to him from any department on campus have game at 7 p.m. page 5 Opinion been low d say there isn't much of a cheatmg problem at DSC, he said However, if you were to be m the trenches talking to the teachers you would probably get a different kind of response Most cheatmg issues are dealt with on a level Some teachers have their own policies for students they I Students should get Involved on campus Don't waste away freshman fBar sitting at home. page 7 catch cheatmg whether it be a drop m grade, a zero on the specific assignment, or they may even kick students out of class If a student is punished for cheatmg and the student feels that it is unjust, the issue rises to a dean, student and teacher level A seriously blatant issue when a student cheats and lies m front of the teacher or takmg someone else s work and gettmg caught will come to me, Hmton said. In some of those cases students can be removed from the school, but those cases are not frequent Academic Vice President Donna said no a problem cheatmg matter how often it occurs because it is not only cheatmg on the assignment, but also cheatmg the student said Dillmgham-Evan- Dillmgham-Evan- s is s We have a world class student body A lot of the 'cheating' is plagiarism Sometimes students dont realize it's cheatmg because they don't rewrite something or cite someone correctly As technology grows, more and more electronic devices are used to cheat rather than hand written notes According to the story High-teccribbing camera phones facilitate cheatmg printh ed on Sept by M Walker for the Wall 10, 2004, Street Journal, camera phone sales have grown from 4,000 m 2002 to 21 4 million m 2004 these camera phone sales rise, more and more students use their phones to take pictures of notes, test questions and other students work, which can easily be sent to other students' phones As tests and homework. According to Updating policy on latest risks for students with cell phones m school" prmted m the Education Digest m 2006 Text messaging is also used as a form of cheating during exams Students have become sophisticated in their ability to send text messages For example, many students are skilled enough to utilize text messaging with the phone hidden m a pocket Some have sent exam answers to another student using this method However, cell phones can be used for instruction Cell phones now have many features that are similar to a computer Brenda Sabey, associate professor of education, said the elementary education program has not really seen a problem with cheatmg at DSC We do stress m the beginning about the aca- demic integrity, Sabey said We go over that policy and mdicate even a smgle action of cheatmg can remove a stu- dent from the program Sabey said she's sure the academic integrity continues with elementary education students as they go on to their own classrooms said Dilhngham-Evan- s she taught for 23 years, and sometimes students dont realize they're cheatmg We have good cooper- ation where students are stuwilling to help other most In said she dents, places there is someone who is willing to take the answer but there is usuwho ally a is willing to give the answer to the other stu dent You may find one person willing to cheat, but finding someone to give the answers away is hard to fmd, and I feel that helps nip it m the bud too According to DSC's academic policies for students m section 33 under Academic Performance 5 Responsibilities Students shall mamtam academic ethics and honesty, to this end, prohibited activities include, but are not limited to cheatmg, which includes, but not limited to copystuing from another dent's test papers or plagiarism Usmg materials during a test not authorized by the person giving the test collaborating with any other person during a test without authority knowingly obtaining, using, buymg, selling, trans porting or soliciting m whole or m part the contents of any test, without authorization of the appropriate official Substituting for another student or permitting any other person to sub- stitute for oneself to take a test or complete an assignment Plagiarism, which is the unacknowledged (uncited) use of any ether person or group s ideas or work This includes purchased or borrowed papers and infringing on the copyright law of the United States which prohibits the making or reproduction of copy righted material except under specified conditions What do students believe should happen if another fellow student is caught cheating9 Freshman Ben Banks, a general education major from St George, said it depends of the severity of the case If it s been done throughout the whole semester and is a regular thing the student deserves the most severe punishment, Banks said If it's a first time offense they should have a light punishment and a chance to redeem themselves Cheating statistics : Cheating typically begins in middle school 9 out of 10 middle schoolers admit to copying someone else's homework; say they have cheated on exams Cheating most often occurs in sci-- j ence and math classes 75 to 98 percent of I j I two-thirI j j J j ! i j college students surveyed each year admit to cheating at some time in their academic careers The college stu-- I dents who are most likely to cheat are engineering and business majors , Information taken from Education-porta- l com |