| Show B2 The Salt Lake Tribune CLOSE TO HOME UTAH Saturday February 28 1998 Y Disciplines Professor Who Admits Plagiarizing BY DAN EGAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A Brigham Young University professor has confessed to plagiarizing from several scholars while writing material he used in his class on Mormon Church history The professor Bruce Van Orden also acknowledged that some of that material made its way into his 1996 book Building Zion: The Latter-DaSaints in Europe Van Orden said it was a mistake and BYUs associate academic vice president Jim Gordon characterized Van Ordens actions as unacceptable carelessness but not outright theft It was unintentional but it was plagiarism Gordon said It is the second time in less than two years that a BYU scholar has been accused of plagiarism In 1996 President Merrill Bateman denied he plagiarized but promised to be more careful in giving proper credit to authors he quotes The apology came af y ter charges he had stolen phrases and ideas from author Gertrude Himmel-far- b and used them in his inaugural address Gordon said professor Van Orden had been disciplined but not fired He would not comment further Van Orden said his mistakes started in 1989 while he was preparing reading material for a course on church history He started compiling and rewriting work from other authors and that material eventually formed a course packet for his students Some of it was subsequently put into his book The problem Van Orden said was that he did not keep track of what was his and what was borrowed I did not intend to pawn off on the scholarly community my students or the readers the idea that I had done the original research about in all of the worlds regions Van Orden wrote in an apology to appear in a spring edition of the Journal of Mormon History Mor-monis- m Hey the sooner he learns to crawl the sooner hell learn to walk The sooner he learns to walk the sooner he can mow the lawn Faces Ex-Co- p I did fall prey however to the zeal to share materials I had distilled from others research without tenaciously following the principles that I had learned in graduate school to avoid all forms of plagiarism The plagiarism was discovered by a scholar in Australia who saw some of her work published over the Internet under Van Ordens name Belgian scholar Wilfried Decoo who reviewed Gordons book in 1996 in the Journal of Mormon History brought the incident to the attention of the academic community I am satisfied with the explanation that it was inadvertent said Decoo He is quoting and he is citing his sources but he failed apparently to quote and cite sufficiently Journal of Mormon History editor Lavina Fielding Anderson agreed that Van Ordens problem was bad work not thievery It was comparatively easy for us to differentiate between his motives which we accepted as innocent and his UTAH BRIEFS scholarly methods in these instances which we deplored Fielding Anderson wrote Decoo said proper attribution is a problem in the Mormon history community but not because people are trying to lay claim to work that is not their own Weve become a little bit lax on attribution and copyrights because of the good cause were engaged in said Decoo Its not malicious it is the excitement to share material with others Fellow BYU professor Richard Jensen was one of the 11 people Van Orden poached paragraphs from He said he said he did not feel violated but felt real pain at seeing this field of inquiry muddled He also noted that he had read Van Ordens book and initially did not recognize it contained some of his own work Obviously I was in agreement with the material he plagiarized from me Jensen said It sounded pretty good City Council members could get bigger starting in July The citys Compensation Advisory Committee rece ommended raising the mayors wages from 900 SOUTH ONRAMP CLOSURE The 900 South onramp to Interstate 15 in Salt $82710 this year to $88169 next year Council memsalaries would increase from $16542 Lake City will be closed tonight to allow crews to bers part-tim- e work on the northbound bridge that spans the p to $17634 For about five years city employees have earned The ramp will close at 8 pm and reopen at 8 am Sunday As an overnight alternative motorists just 95 percent of average market salaries based on the assumption that Salt Lake Citys benefits were 5 can use 500 South to southbound percent better than those at other city governments Now the compensation committee says that is not the case So city employees salaries need to be inCITIES ADJUST BOUNDARIES It is just a squiggle on the map but to South Salt creased to make up that 5 percent the committee concluded (City police and fire employees previousLake it means a new community center ly were dropped from the 95 percent policy when This month South Salt Lake and Salt Lake City analysts determined their benefits were not signifiapproved a slight map change shifting their boundaries to allow the southern city to absorb the former cantly better than their counterparts) The difference would be made up with a 25 perColumbus School 2530 S 500 East cent increase this year and another next year On top Three years ago South Salt Lake paid $800000 to buy the historic school from the Salt Lake City Board of a proposed general 4 percent raise for all city of Education and plans to turn it into a community employees this year the council members and the center mayors raises would total 65 percent Besides police and fire employees some operaLast year South Salt Lake leaders passed a resolution to adjust the citys boundary with Salt Lake City tions maintenance and clerical staff would be excluded from the proposed 25 percent increases beredrawing the line between the two cities in the middle of 500 East But residents on the border protestcause they already earn about the same salary as ed they wanted to stay in Sait Lake City So the two their counterparts at other cities cities modified the boundary to include just the CoProvo City Council members make $7956 a year lumbus School and a few homes in the neighborhood and the mayor $56810 Sandy City Council members around it earn $9316 and the mayor $64500 West Valley Citys council members get $14400 a year and the part-tim- e mayor $20000 CITY PAY HIKE Salt Lake City Council members will approve a Paychecks for Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Cor- - final budget in June radini and full-tim- Deportation Murder Charge FOR THE RECORD PRISON IN COP-SHOOT- Jason Junior Evans awaiting sentencing for went wounding a West Valley City police officer to prison Friday for up to 15 years for an unrelated kidnapping crime On July 10 1997 Evans forced his girlfriend into his car drove her to a remote location in Salt Lake County punched and choked her then returned her to her home A month later on Aug 15 Evans opened fire on West Valley Det Robert Idle during a routine traffic stop Idle and two other officers pulled over Evans after seeing occupants of the car passing a bottle of liquor Idle was wounded in the leg face wrist and stomach After fleeing in his car Evans also tried to shoot at a pursuing officer Kory Newbold but Evans assault rifle was out of bullets Evans was convicted in 3rd District Court last month of two counts of e e felony aggravated attempted murder and could be sent felony fleeing The to prison for up to life when he is sentenced Thursday In the kidnapping case Evans was charged with e felony aggravated kidnapping and misdemeanor assault He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degre- e felony attempted kidnapping THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST GEORGE A former Mexican police officer sentenced to prison in Utah may in- stead be deported to his homeland to face murder and assault charges Jesus Olivas 27 was sentenced Thursday to up to 5 years in prison for hitting a man with a baseball bat and to 18 months in Washington County Jail for firing a gun and drinking and driving Judge G Rand Beacham said Olivas sentence will be stayed if Immigration and Naturalization Services officials chose to deport him The Mexican murder and assault charges stem from an August 1991 incident in which one man was killed and another seriously injured said state Corrections Agent Ronnie Judkins At the time Olivas was an officer for the Mexicali Police Department in Baja California Defense attorney ODean Bowler said his client who was in the United States legally told him the Mexican incidents were a case of first-degre- third-dggre- first-degre- I PRISON OFFICER DIES SL self-defens- e veteran correctional officer died of an apparent heart attack or stroke while on duty at Utah State Prison in Draper on Wednesday night Because he was alone and the door was locked prison officials hd to use a long ladder to reach Grant Cox 50 in tl$e control tower near the main entrance of the prison 'Said Utah Department of Corrections spokes-wSma- n Jack Ford Officials crawled through an open wfiidow to get to him Cox had been with the depart-njpfor 21 years as a correctional officer An autopsy was being performed to determine the cause of If Olivas is deported to Mexico the Washington County Attorneys Office will issue warrants on four other charges said Wade Farraway deputy county attorney This means if Olivas entered the United States again he would be prosecuted on those counts as well as serve his sentence Farraway said INS officials could act in the next 30 days he said Also if Olivas leaves the United States a warrant will be issued for one count of conspiracy to commit escape from official custody which came from a third incident while he was in jail Farraway said Olivas first arrest came after a Jan 13 incident in which police said Olivas fired shots in the air at a St George apartment complex Olivas pleaded guilty to use of a dangerous weapon and to driving under the influence and was sentenced to jail for a year and six months respectively He also was charged with brandishing a weapon and disorderly conduct warrants will 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