Home Away from Home from School, While Others Have Puter Desk, Full Size Bed, Dresser, Demand for on Limited Transportation Or None Night Stand and Extra Storage Bins
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Wednesday, July 7, 2004 THE SENTINEL MORE THAN JUST CHEERING WHAT’S HAPPENING TO FIRST WILL FAHRENHEIGHT 9/11 IMPACT THE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM AMMENDMENT RIGHTS? ELECTION? SEE ROAMING REPORTER. • Page 9 • Page 3 Features • Page 5 Founded 1963 • Volume 38 • Issue 30 www.ksusentinel.com Kennesaw, GA Home away from home from school, while others have puter desk, full size bed, dresser, Demand for on limited transportation or none night stand and extra storage bins. campus housing at all. A washer, dryer, garbage dis- “I live in Riverdale and posal and microwave are also increase the drive is over an hour with included in each apartment. traffic,” said Kendal Phillips, Even though residents have LaToya Cole online a sophomore resident. “It is roommates, each student has a News Editor separate lease and is responsible Results of our last poll: definitely easier for me to live only for the rent on his/her room. he university has be- on campus.” “How do you celebrate “The good part is that you don’t come a home away “I love to hear how much the Fourth of July?” have to wait on your roommates to from home for some residential students, who used to commute, enjoy the conve- pay their share of the rent,” said Picnic/Bar-B-Q 10% students. Although T nience of living on campus,” Andy Baughman, a senior Health many of them commute, more Vacation 0% and Physical Education major. than 1,900 students will live on said Kyle Coffey, operations University Village will only Time with family & campus during fall 2004. The manager of University Place. be for freshmen who choose to friends 50% traffic on and around the cam- The units at University live on campus. The Village will Enjoy fireworks/parade pus is growing with the univer- Place come with two, four bed- accommodate 749 students. Un- 40% sity. Students are forced to room floor plans. The Village like University Place, the Vil- sit in traffic and bypass con- offers two, three and four bed- lage will have interior corridors Take our next poll: struction just to get to class. room plans. All bedrooms have and one main entrance to pro- And with rising gas prices, it their own bathrooms. The Go to: vide a safer environment. It will can get expensive driving kitchen and living room are www.ksusentinel.com be substance free with no smok- back and forth. shared areas. The living room ing, drugs or alcohol. Convenience is also a key is furnished with a sofa, chair, *3,649 people subscribe Freshmen who live on cam- factor when students decide to tables and a unit for a televi- to The Sentinel E-mail pus will be required to join a live on campus. Some students sion. The bedrooms are edition. Be the 3,650th! live a considerable distance equipped with a built-in com- SEE HOME, PAGE 2 Go to ksusentinel.com and register! box, students will have to take Postal service may their outgoing mail to the near- Woman assaulted inviewpoints est off-campus drop-box or post office, or send it through A soldier and KSU remove campus drop the KSU Mail Room. on campus student tells of his For students, these op- Richard L. Johnson edly until he rolled off of her. experiences in the Stefanie McBroom removal of the low-volume tions are less convenient than Senior Photographer She was able to get up and run Middle East in KSU Staff Writer mailbox would help the USPS depositing mail in the drop back to her apartment. Speaks Out. to streamline its operations. box. A man attacked a woman as she The convenience of a campus The woman told police she A mail count of the drop- The nearest drop box to was walked from her apartment page 3 mail drop box may soon be a found a piece of paper on the box was taken recently. How- campus is in Town Point Busi- at University Place at 2 a.m. thing of the past. The Kenne- windshield of her car June 7. ever, since the count was per- Friday, June 3, but she did not saw branch of the ness Park on Town Point The paper was from her job and formed during report the incident until June 7. United States Post Drive. The nearest Post Of- had her schedule written on it. summer semes- According to the incident Office is consid- fice is the Kennesaw Main Someone had written, “You report, the woman told police ering removal of ter, the number Office on Duncan Drive. dropped this, my god your [sic] she left her apartment and was the blue mailbox may not reflect Larry Duck, Supervisor of beautiful.” The victim told po- walking on Marietta Drive to located in parking the mail levels Postal, Delivery & Receiving lice she believes she had her lot B, in front of for the entire Services at KSU, said that the use a nearby soda machine. schedule when she was attacked. the Science build- year. The USPS has not yet made the When she crossed the street, a She described her attacker ing, due to low amount of out- final decision to remove the man grabbed her shoulder, as a 5-foot-8-inch man who was mail volume. going mail is box from campus. He sug- clamped his hand over her possibly white, wearing a black A notice was likely to in- gested that concerned students mouth and threw her to the ski mask, black sweater, black placed on the box crease during contact the Kennesaw Post ground. She said he then pants and gray tennis shoes. earlier this month the fall and Master to voice their opinions. straddled her legs while his The woman said she did Larry Duck infeatures stating that the spring semes- “It’s hard to believe that a hand was over her mouth. not immediately report the at- ters, as more stu- university of our size doesn’t The victim told police that Announcing the KSU amount of mail at tack to the university police be- that location is insufficient to dents are on campus. generate enough mail to war- she stabbed the man in the cause “she did not think any- Idol. See who won. merit keeping the stop. The Without the campus drop- rant a drop-box,” said Duck. chest with her car keys repeat- thing would be done about it.” page 4 back to the professor for their told the victim he is ejaculat- New system to help review. Staff ing. KSU’s policy on academic Sgt. Edward Stephens, the detect plagiarism honesty states” No student shall continues detective in charge of the in- receive, attempt to receive, know- vestigation, said the police Kelly Tenedini million pages per day. Any suspi- ingly give or attempt to give un- to receive have a suspect in the cases. Staff Writer cious text found is underlined, authorized assistance in the prepa- While he did not to identify color-coded and linked to the ration of any work required to be the suspect, Stephens said the KSU has obtained a license for original source. Professors can submitted for credit as part of a obscene man was not a student at KSU. Turnitin, a system that detects submit the work they find suspi- course. When direct quotations Police are unsure why the insports plagiarism. The Merriam- cious, or students can submit the are used, they should be indicated, calls man is calling KSU offices. Webster dictionary defines pla- Athletics ranked in work themselves. The system can and when ideas, theories, data, “They’ve been so random,” giarism as “the act of stealing and U.S. Sports Academy detect copied sentences as well as figures, graphs, programs, elec- Richard L. Johnson Stephens said. passing off the words of another Investigating is more Director’s Cup. See copies of entire plagiarized pa- tronic based information or illus- Senior Photographer as one’s own: use of another’s complicated than just tracing pers. Once the work is reviewed, trations created by someone other where we stand. production without crediting the ampus police are a phone call. Stephens said an “Originality Report” is sent than the student are incorporated page 9 source. investigating an because of the campus phone into a paper or used in a project, Turnitin was chosen by the ongoing series of system, a victim cannot use they should also be attributed.” C university system to help keep obscene phone calls that the normal call trace features. According to a 1998 survey The Sentinel plagiarism out of the schools. It have been received on cam- One of the names the per- by Who’s Who Among American Building 5, Room 277 is available for professors to ac- pus. petrator has used is in the stu- 1000 Chastain road According to a 1998 High School Students, four out of cess. According to Gary C. dent records, but “…is not Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 survey by Who’s Who University staff has re- Lewis, professor and director of five college-bound high school related to this case,” Stephens “ Among American High “ ceived the calls in differ- online learning services, some students admit to cheating on Newsroom: 770-423-6278 School Students, four ent offices since April. Vic- said. Advertising: 770-423-6470 professors are already using the schoolwork. Stephens said he was un- out of five college- tims report the caller, who Fax: 770-423-6703 system. “ A recent Gallup poll indi- sometimes will identify sure if the police department Advisor: 770-499-3083 bound high school According to the Turnitin cated that respondents considered himself by name, often has issued a campus-wide students admit to a crisis in education and a decline E-mail: Web site, the system scans stu- asks, “Can you hear me?” warning about the calls.