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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3 Students pay tribute to violin teacher Anna Drysdale STAFF WRITER Originally published Jan. H, 2013 If George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life” had a modernday counterpart, Natalie Reed would be a good candidate. Beloved violin teacher and master performer, Reed was diagnosed weeks ago with aggressive stage-four ovarian cancer. As Reed prepared to undergo intensive treatment, her students came up with an idea to bring her help and hope — they planned a benefit concert at the U's Libby Gardner Hall. The concert, which took place on Wednesday night, opened with Clark Campbell, husband of Reed's sister, reading a letter from President Emeritus David Gardner. Gardner said the venue, which was named for his wife who passed away from cancer in 1991, was "well-suited" to the celebration for Reed. SCIENCE Continued from page 1 It is named for the famous female scientist, Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering new elements at the turn of the 20th century. The major goal of the club is to provide role models for female chemistry students. "Until women have strong role models, it's hard to get women involved," Minteer said. "To have a critical mass of women at all levels helps." She said chemistry and other departments in the past only hired one female faculty member, and they would rarely stay long at the U. By hiring multiple women, female faculty are more likely to stay. This provides varied examples to female students of how to be successful in the sciences Reed's friends showed up en masse to support her — donating at least $20 per ticket to attend. When general admission sold out, overflow was seated in the choir loft above the stage. The bill consisted of stars from Utah's music scene such as Kurt Bestor, Alex Boye, Peter Breinholt and YouTube hit The Piano Guys. Reed wrote each of the performers and personally asked them to help her with the concert. "I don't think anyone would have batted an eye," Breinholt said. He was right. Even nonperformers such as Lex de Azevedo, a local composer, were happy and grateful for the opportunity to honor their friend. The song selections were as varied as the performers ranging from the Bach Double, a concerto played by Reed's students, to "Natalie's Jubilee," a bluegrass tune composed for the occasion. while offering support to the other professors. "It's helpful when you're around others who are struggling with similar things," she said. "We remember that we're all in this together." Hiring more than one female faculty member in each department has proved more successful in recent years. For the first time, the number of female faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy is greater than one. There are currently three female faculty out of 39 total, said Pearl Sandick, a professor in the department who was hired in 2011. Overall, the College of Science faculty is at a little more than 2opercent female, said Denise Dearing, professor in biology. This is double what it was only io years ago. Dearing said the Department of Biology seems to be doing better than other sciences hav- CANOE PLAGIARISM Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 duct-tape the canoe back together into one piece or lob off the end and seal it. The team made the decision to stick eight inches of foam on the end to give the back end buoyancy and seal it up with duct tape. The tape also helped prevent water from coming into the boat. The canoe was then renamed "Broken Dreamz." Bordelon said they are learning how to repair, which is a very good thing for modern engineers. "I think the team has learned some important lessons," Bordelon said. "They learned about concrete cracking, but the most important lesson they learned is actually management. If you have a deadline that is nine months later, don't wait seven months to start doing it. They had a lot of delays, and they kept thinking it'd be fine to wait. Especially with classes and kids, it's better to get done before unpredictable things happen." She said the competition has been fun because the team gets ideas from the other schools for doing things better. Ideas about logistics the team does not think of when they are building the canoe such as how to transport it. "They've been picking up a lot of ideas, like the box to carry it," Bordelon said. "That might be the goal for next year — to find a nice way to carry it." The event, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and hosted by Utah State University at Hyrum Dam, brought 12 schools in the region together to compete in the races. Participants were USU, BYU, Colorado State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, University of Wyoming, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico State University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, United States Air Force Academy, University of New Mexico and the U. The U will host the annual canoe races in 2017. m.clark@chronicle.utah.edu she made copies of the papers and then returned them to the shelf. "What surprised me about the papers was not that they were plagiarized, but that the teacher who graded them had acknowledged the plagiarism and still gave the papers high marks," Frost said in an email to Atkinson, which she made available to The Daily Utah Chronicle. She then forwarded the papers to Atkinson along with her letter of resignation. "I feel that the incident is indicative of the lack of standards in our program, which includes lax grading policies and teacher qualifications ... Because of the lack of standards in our program, I have no recourse but to resign my position," Frost wrote in the email. Because Frost felt her complaints to Atkinson were ignored, she forwarded the documents to a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. Dean O'Driscoll, vice president of university relations, confirmed the teacher in question, Nina Hansen, had been placed on probation and was still on probation as of Tuesday. A phone number was not available for Hansen, and she had not returned emails seeking comment as of Tuesday afternoon. Staff and faculty members within the ESL program are conducting the investigation of the plagiarism accusations, O'Driscoll said, adding that all ESL instructors the university employs have college degrees. Hansen, who has been rh Boye said the variety was selected to reflect the many beautiful sides of Reed, and her friends agree with Boye on that score. Ann Tyler, a long-time friend who attended middle and high school with Reed, said no matter what Reed was doing, she was pretty amazing. "So many people love her," Tyler said. "She is just so genuine. She would do this for anybody." Both Tyler and Melissa Williams, whose daughter Samara takes violin lessons from Reed, said she has a magic ability to instill confidence. "[Reed] is such a dynamic person," Williams said. "She's such a strong female mentor for my daughter ... It's more than music." Some said that image was clear when they heard Will Hagen, a violinist who began his musical journey as a student of Reed's and is now studying with Itzhak Perlman. Hagen ing about a so percent female student population in undergraduate and graduate years. Pierre Sokolsky, the dean of the College of Science, is trying to expand the participation of women from all levels. "Without diversity, we're not going to solve our problems," Sokolsky said. "You're not going to find scientists who don't want to solve problems." In the past few years, there have been 20 hires within the college and more than half were women. Sokolsky is hoping the College of Science can become representative of the population and is happy to see doors opening for women. Kallie Bracken, a junior in mathematics, believes these opportunities have been available for some time now. As a member of the ACCESS Program her freshman year, she was extremely thankful for teaching ESL for a year, has a bachelor's degree in physical education from BYU, a master's in education from SUU and a Utah teacher certification, but she is not certified to teach ESL, according to a document O'Driscoll made available. Of the 13 other instructors in the program, only three have ESL certifications, and only one has a bachelor's degree in foreign language education. The SUU Police Department cited Frost on Monday with theft of lost, mislaid or mistakenly delivered property — a misdemeanor. Rick Brown, chief of SUU Police, said Hansen was listed as the complainant in the case, and the case had been turned over to the Iron County Attorney's Office. "The university doesn't have anything to do with it," Brown said. Frost has also been banned from the SUU campus, according to a "trespass notice" that Brown delivered to Frost at her home on Monday that said Frost would be arrested for criminal trespass if she stepped foot on the campus. "The University is conducting an investigation in which you are an alleged party, therefore effective immediately you are trespassed from all property owned or operated by Southern Utah University," the notice states. Frost made a copy of the trespass notice available to The Chronicle. The ESL Program was started in August 2011 after SUU stopped outsourcing the program to a private contractor and expects to bring in a new director, Andrea Stiefvater, in Janu- performed a piece by Kreisler that he first learned in Reed's studio. The audience rose to their feet as soon as Hagen finished playing. "Everything you just heard was all from Natalie," Hagen said. When you hear something like that, Boye said, "You feel something bigger than yourself." Reed felt that same feeling at the end of the night when she stood from her reclining chair to thank her friends for their help. The total from the donations at the door will be used to help cover her mounting medical expenses in the months to come. "I have spent my life with these people," Reed said. "It reminds me of that movie, 'It's a Wonderful Life.' ... My heart is too tender and too full." a.drysdale@ chronicle.utah.edu networking opportunities the program allowed. She does not feel any disadvantage because she is a woman. "To be successful in anything — science or whatever — you have to just believe," Bracken said. "There are obstacles in everything, and I don't think that being a woman is an obstacle." While not confronting these trials herself, she has met other science students who feel the barrier through past professors or parents. "They never sat us down and said, 'You can do this even though you're women' because it was obvious ... We had already passed that point," she said. She has noticed there are far more men in her science classes, especially her math and computer science-focused classes. She said it does not ary. The program will also seek accreditation with the Commission on English Language Accreditation sometime in 2013, according to an annual report. Between August 2011 and September 2012 the program had 1,642 students, with 1,442 of those students coming from Saudi Arabia, 123 from South Korea and other students coming from Afghanistan, Mexico, France, Spain, China and Colombia. UPDATE: Dean O'Driscoll, vice president for university relations at SUU, released the following statement at 6:20 p.m: "Given the on-going investigation surrounding the ESL program at Southern Utah University and the possibility of criminal charges, former ESL instructor, Belinda Frost, is prohibited from the ESL offices and ESL-related teaching areas. She is, however, allowed to frequent all other areas on campus. The university is pursuing an independent, thirdparty entity — an accredited-ESL program at a peer institution — to conduct a program audit of our ESL program as it relates to the charges of plagiarism. It is anticipated that this thorough review will commence in the next few days. Relative to the criminal charges leveled against Frost by a former colleague and current ESL instructor, SUU has turned over all materials to the Cedar City Police Department and the Iron County Attorney. Any additional action — if any — will be pursued by these entities." e.andrews@ chronicle.utah.edu L .dailyutahchronicle. co KARINA PUIKKONEN /The Daily Utah Chronicle A crowd fills Libby Gardner Hall on Jan. 9 for a benefit concert in support of violin teacher, Natalie Reed, who was diagnosed with aggressive stage-four ovarian cancer. dishearten her. Sandick and Inese Ivans, a fellow professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, were told not to come to Utah because of women's issues here. While Ivans believes the stereotype was a bit exaggerated, she has felt some of the disparities, which she attributes to the culture. "It's embedded in the culture that has not been open-armed," Ivans said. "In electrical engineering, there is a course that's required, and there are three women in a 6o-student course. We can't get past the stats, so it's a problem." Ivans and Gray of ACCESS are shocked this issue is still so current. While seeing disparities through schooling, Gray did not come against much opposition until she decided to have a child. The clash of raising a family while pursuing the difficult education required for a science degree is what many believe turns women away. Sokolsky is trying to offer both women and men in the faculty better options for family time to make the U more enticing, such as providing paid leave when a baby is born. With programs like BioKids, children of U staff and faculty can be watched while their parents are at work. BioKids takes preference for faculty in biology first, but all are welcome. Dearing started it in 1999 after she spoke with other biology professors, and they felt day care on campus was necessary. "Child care is a big issue," Dearing said. "People wonder, `How will I be able to succeed in the sciences and have a family?"' c.webber@ chronicle.utah.edu TUITION at least some new resources during the upcoming session," he said. The Utah Senate has not granted an increase in appropriations to the U for the better part of five years. Pershing and West both agree that though the U's move to the new conference has been followed by increased private donations, alumni might be more impressed by football than the state Legislature "[The Utah Senate] decision on appropriations certainly has an impact on which direction tuition rates go," West said. "But I've never gotten any sense that our being a member of the Pac-12 affects that at all." dj.summers@ chronicle.utah.edu Continued from page 1 years." West said the belief that merely being in the Pac-12 will raise tuition prices is baseless. 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