Plan Reveals 7 Steps to an Improved UH
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UNIVERSIT Y O F H A W A I ‘ I A T M A N O A kaleo.org The Voice of Hawai‘i Vol. XCVI Issue No. 146 Thursday, May 2, 2002 Episode II: The Game On the road to finals If George Lucas’ upcoming release of “Star The University of Hawai`i men’s volley- Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” has ball team squares off against the Penn State you fidgeting in your seat with sweaty palms, Nittany Lions today. The winner claims a spot keep busy with the newly-released PC game in the NCAA Championship game. For a pre- “Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.” view of today’s match turn to Ka Leo Sports. See page 3 See page 8 Plan reveals 7 steps to an improved UH By Sacha Mendelsohn a very refreshing breeze indeed.” Andrew Shimabuku • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I KA LEO NEWS EDITOR Kame`eleihiwa introduced the speak- ers and offered a Hawaiian blessing. Hundreds of students, faculty, passersby and homeless dig into the free food offered at the strategic planning event Hundreds lined up in the hot As students, faculty and the outside Bachman Hall yesterday. sun for free hot dogs and hamburgers public strolled the grounds in front yesterday, in front of Bachman Hall, of Bachman Hall, President Evan society and the arts; and Technology. resented groups, and a 10 percent the Feb. 1 strategic planning event as the University of Hawai`i admin- Dobelle, interim Chancellor Deane For each core, the plan lists goals annual increase in financial assistance took place. istration released a draft of the UH Neubauer and interim Vice Chancellor and points of reference from which to qualified students. The Feb. 1 meeting brought the Strategic Plan for public review. Karl Kim addressed the scattered measurements of progress may be Marc Heverly, a member of committees from each working group Music performed by local enter- crowd. made. the academic affairs working group, together to report on what was impor- tainer and UH professor Jon Osorio “Ours is a plan rooted in respon- For example, under the topic which was responsible for outlining tant to them, and gathered input from added to the festive atmosphere. sibility,” Dobelle said. “It is up to us of social justice, imperatives listed student and faculty issues and aca- students, faculty and the public. “It’s Karl Kim, interim vice chancel- to define our next 10 years, 20 years, include recognition of the University’s demic instruction, said his group met a process of distillation and integra- lor for academic affairs, said, “This 50 years, and we have chosen the core responsibility to Hawaii’s “host” cul- 10 to 12 times over the past two to tion,” McClain said. is meant to be a celebration ... of all values with which we will define it: ture and the need to promote social three months to develop their portion Dobelle said, “When we had those people involved in the process. leadership, excellence, innovation.” justice for Native Hawaiians. of the draft. 1,400 people show up in February A celebration of our diversity.” The Strategic Plan draft is divid- Benchmarks for measuring David McClain, chairman of the we knew we were on to something ... Lilikala Kame`eleihiwa, director ed into seven core commitments: the success of these goals include steering committee that coordinated we’re letting the sun shine in on a plan of the Center for Hawaiian Studies, Research; Exemplary undergradu- an increase of enrollment of Native the work of the separate committees, not done behind closed doors ... this opened the program, saying, “A new ate education; Social justice; Place; Hawaiians to 15 percent of the stu- said working groups had already been dent population, hiring of underrep- established and meetings held before See Plan, page 2 breeze is blowing in Manoa, and it’s Economic development; Culture, Cheaters beware: Teachers know By J.C. O’Connell “It’s very easy to find papers in new ways,” Bailey said. he warns students in the syllabus for Misconduct and can range from a THE LANTERN (OHIO STATE U.) online. As easy as it is for (students) The occurrence of digital plagia- his classes. warning admonition to suspension or to find papers, there’s also ways for rism in Ohio is very high, according to An additional issue concerning dismissal. (U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio - If us to find the papers, too. There are Turnitin.com. plagiarism is not new: Students’ confu- “It’s a tricky issue. There’s a dif- you’re a frequent visitor to The Evil searches that fit in a chunk of text Kalenda Eaton, an OSU gradu- sion over what constitutes plagiarism. ference between quoting and citing. House of Cheat, beware: Your profes- from a paper into the search and will ate teaching assistant in English, said “They don’t give you a clear You can put it in your own words, sor knows where you hide the spare find online papers that match,” said when one student turned in a suspi- set of guidelines. They could stress but if the idea came from somewhere house key. Lori Bailey, a doctoral student at ciously familiar paper, she decided to more what plagiarism is,” said Ryan else you need to cite that source. The prevalence of Web sites Ohio State University who has taught check it for plagiarism. Thompson, a sophomore in engineer- I think that’s the biggest source of such as The Evil House of Cheat and English courses and is a Computers “I went online and I entered the ing at OSU. confusion for students,” said Scott schoolsucks.com has facilitated pla- in Composition and Literature staff key words. It didn’t work, so I went Instructors stress the importance Banville, an OSU graduate assistant giarism since the Internet’s birth, but member. to termpaper.com or something like of not plagiarizing in every class, on the Computers in Composition and professors are beginning to use this “I think one of the downsides of it, and I didn’t see anything. The last but not the definition of plagiarism, Literature staff. medium’s tools to eliminate the prac- having all the Internet access is that thing I did was type the (student’s) Thompson said. There’s plagiarism by ignorance tice of cut-and-paste plagiarism. it has made the faculty even more term paper title, and it just popped Plagiarism is the representation and intentional plagiarism, Banville Instructors are perusing these Web suspicious. They assume the guilty right up,” Eaton said. of another’s works or ideas as one’s said. sites, entering key words from student first. That’s one of the first things that “I go to common search engines own. It includes the unacknowledged “Sometimes in my own writing papers into popular search engines, or comes to mind: Let’s make sure this and type in key words,” said James word-for-word use and/or paraphras- I’ll look up different sources from a visiting Web sites designed to look for isn’t purchased somewhere,” Bailey Fredal, an OSU assistant professor of ing of another person’s work or the lot of different Internet sites to get the plagiarism. said. English. inappropriate unacknowledged use of basic idea, and I have to make sure Web sites such as Plagiarism.org, “The positive side of it is the “Remember that search engines another person’s ideas, according to I’m not just regurgitating what they’re Turnitin.com, and Copycat.com offer Internet has made instructors who have that you might be tempted to use to the code of academic misconduct. saying,” said Amy Friedrich, an OSU to analyze texts submitted by profes- taught the same thing for years re- locate a paper also make it easy for me Penalties for plagiarism are deter- See Plagerism, page 2 sors for plagiarism for a fee. examine their course work and think to find that same paper. Don’t do it,” mined by the Committee on Academic Page 2 Ka Leo O Hawai’i Thursday, May 2, 2002 NEWS Plan: Strategic plan is a journey, not a destination Beef ... it’s what’s for free From page 1 isn’t just an ephemeral dream.” plan) against reality,” McClain said. The trickiest issue of the draft, He said the unveiling of the plan McClain said, was faculty salaries. is just the beginning, and the plan will “Instead of being in the lowest 20 now be publicly available and open percent, we want to be in the upper 20 to comment. “We’re under no illusion percent in the country.” that this is incapable of improve- McClain said he hopes the sys- ment,” he said. tem plan will be an issue next fall After the comment period, which when the state and local elections take extends throughout the summer, the place. He said he wants the public to revised plan will go to the Board of question the candidates on their posi- Regents for approval in October. tion on the Strategic Plan. View the entire draft of the plan “This is a journey, not a desti- and submit comments at www.uhm. nation, we need to be checking (the hawaii.edu/vision Plagerism: Students should take steps to avoid copying From page 1 ior in history and women’s studies. which is offered online as part of the “Because proper documentation OSU First Year Writing Program. of secondary sources is a common “(Instructors) don’t want to baby- feature of academic work, students sit or be the police.