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California State University, Fullerto n AILY ITAN Wednesday, No v e m b e r 3D 0 , 2 0 0 5 www.dailytitan.comT Volume 81, Issue 48 Inside Two-faced This Issue Alarm disrupts Sports Belle of the Paintball morning classes Thousands evacute ing the whole class to evacuate. funding to update the alarm sys- “When we figured out that it tem, she added. during library fire was a fire drill, [the class] basi- For instance, because the cally left and kind of went our Pollack Library comprises two bell system upgrade separate ways,” Price said. separate buildings – the newer By COURTNEY BACALSO The fire alarm forced more North Wing and older South Daily Titan News Editor than 7,000 CSUF students to Wing – they were trying to sync evacuate all campus buildings the two alarm systems when the After filling out instructor eval- for 45 minutes Tuesday morning. alarm went off and caused a uation forms, Cal State Fullerton College Park was the only build- domino effect on surrounding junior Greg Price and his class- ing unaffected. buildings, Selleck said. mates waited for his instructor to In the process of upgrading Building marshals helped return to the classroom. the Pollack Library alarm sys- evacuate the buildings and Before business-writing tem, the multiple alarm system directed people around campus, instructor Debra Danielsen had a was triggered, said Paula Selleck, said Price, who returned to his chance to walk through the door, the CSUF public affairs director. the alarm system went off forc- The university recently received EVACUATION 4 CSU Fullerton’s Kat Gong makes career as top paintball Dishonesty rates competitor among men, women 8 rising on campus Opinion an article for “The Lantern,” titled, “How to Write an Officials concerned a publication of Ohio State Effective Research Paper about increase of University. Without Plagiarizing.” This Barrie is the founder and will teach international stu- OLIVIA PORTUGAL/For the Daily Titan cheating students Chief ExecuO of iParadigms, dents the basics of plagiariz- Alyssa Kreidt has her face painted by Jenai Driscoll at the training grounds at which runs Turnitin.com. ing. the 2005 Gen Con Convention held at the Anaheim Convention Center last By ELIZABETH SIMOES Saturday. For The Daily Titan Although the cost for the ser- The second workshop is vice is high, it is effective in geared toward international catching students who plagia- students working on their the- There has been a 165 per- rize. sis and grad projects. cent rise in cheating from Barrie said that 30 percent “International students have four years ago at Cal State of the 40,000 papers they a large percentage of grad stu- Word on the Street: Fullerton, where 143 cases receive every day are found to dents,” Rhoten said. Foreign language of academic dishonesty were be unoriginal. A Retention Initiative Grant If you could have reported, according to the According to the report, provided funding for the work- 2003-2004 Student Affairs international students are dis- shops. anything for Annual Report. proportionately represented Rhoten said the money will Christmas, what Over 1,180 disciplinary in academic dishonesty cases. be used to purchase necessary necessary for GE referrals in 2003-2004 were This means that for the small items as well as buy out the would it be, why? sent to the Office of Judicial population of international time of professors to develop 5 Affairs, which is responsible students at the university, the project, Rhoten said. Changes to required semester at CSUF. for dealing with cheating and they make up a large percent She said Professor Andi “Our hope is that theyʼll have a new other forms of academic dis- of violators Stein, a cirruculum anticipated opinion of what it means to learn a lan- News honesty at CSUF. of academic “ journalism guage,” Eyring said. “Itʼs a positive ideal That same school year, 16 integrity. Seventy-four per- professor, for fall 2006 semester to get the whole campus to learn a lan- Latest TiVo students were suspended out Rhoten said cent of academic is currently guage and also acknowledge the people By KARI HAMANAKA technology offers of 42 - either suspended or that the inter- dishonesty cases w o r k i n g Daily Titan Staff who already speak a [second] language.” playback options expelled - in the last five years, national stu- cases ... are pla- with her on Students already fluent in a second the report stated. dent population giarism. the project. language have the option of bypassing on portable Plagiarism is the number is at risk for D e s p i t e With the semester coming to an the new requirement by taking an oral one violation of academic many reasons. the facts, end at Cal State Fullerton, the Modern interview test or challenging a language media devices fraud at CSUF. She said they Sandra Rhoten some inter- Language Laboratory on the third floor course within the first three weeks of Associate Dean of Students 3 “Seventy-four percent of have cultural n a t i o n a l of the Humanities building is quiet with their enrollment. academic dishonesty cases differences of ” s t u d e n t s only a handful of students. Students can also participate in a study referred to my office are pla- what is and is feel that Janet Eyring, the modern languages abroad program to meet the language Surf Report giarism,” said Sandra Rhoten, not acceptable. For example, American students cheat and literature department chair, however, requirements. associate dean of Students, in some cultures, collective more. anticipates a change next fall when the Twenty-one more courses will be Huntington Judicial Affairs. “I donʼt keep knowledge is valued or it is “I think the international second language requirement to graduate offered next fall in anticipation of more track of how much is from the required to quote their teach- students here have a goal so increases from two to three semesters. students enrolling in a language class. 1-3 ft. ankle- to Internet, but it is the greatest ers. they prepare and study more,” By fall 2008, the requirement will affect “I expect there will be some resis- waist-high and majority because that is how She said the English of said Tiffany Rosy, a theatre transfer students. tance,” Eyring said. “There will be some fair conditions. students do their research.” international students is not as arts major from Korea. “Weʼve been working on this for 20 [students] where itʼll be difficult for In an effort to reduce the honed as other CSUF students, “In Korea [students donʼt] years,” Eyring said. “A modern citizen them.” amount of plagiarism, many so teachers can more easily cheat on important midterm of the world should know more than one This is where the Modern Language San Clemente campuses, including CSUF, determine if their work has or final, just little tests,” said language. Up to this point, freshmen just Laboratory facilities in Humanities room 1-2 ft. ankle- to have started to use services been plagiarized. Na Mimi Jungmi, an interna- had to know vocabulary [and] how to 325, may become more useful. knee-high with and like Turnitin.com. In order to prevent this prob- tional student who is also from count.” The main lab currently features 24 Turnitin.com is a program lem, the CSUF Judicial Affairs Korea. Currently CSUF students need only computers with Internet access and print- poor-fair conditions. that can search 40-million- office will sponsor a series Jungmi said that she has two semesters of a second language to ing for 10 cents per page. Compiled from www.surfline.com old papers over the Internet, of workshops for international not witnessed any cheating at graduate. For most students, the two- “There are many benefits [of the lab],” a database of books and jour- students to attend. CSUF, but she did see it quite year high school language requirement said Pearl Kraiboon, a computer science nals of the last seven years There will be three differ- often at her school in Korea. allowed them to bypass taking a lan- graduate student and a lead lab student and over 20 million stories ent workshops each one being When asked if they were guage class in college. assistant. “You can study. You can do Weather that have been turned into the presented twice, said Rhoten. One year of a high school level lan- ACADEMIC 4 ESL 4 Wednesday creators, said John Barrie in The first in the series is guage class is the equivalent of one Partly Cloudy 70º/51º Thursday Leading the pack in female fashion Mostly Cloudy 70º/53º Titan Battalion looks “I like being a leader and being in an exercise called the confidence Aboy has always wanted to be in of being able charge of people,” Aboy said. obstacle course. the Army. Her dad was an Army vet- to stand up to Lt. Col. 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