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The Echo: November 16, 2007 Features: Taylor parent working with Obama campaign Page 3 A&E: Editor swats “Bee Movie” Page 6 Opinions: Hiroshima in hindsight: Is nuclear war immoral? HE CHO Page 7 TNOVEMBER 16, 2007 ET AYLOR U NIVERSITY SINCE 1915 - VOLUME 95, NO. 12 Nussbaum goes green, Songs, skits, slime at My Gen building plans move ahead By Benita Lee rector of the Merry Lea Center Contributor at Goshen College. “It expresses values related to human rela- The energy effi cient plan for tionships, environmental atti- the new science complex pre- tudes and spiritual understand- sented by Hank Voss, professor ings,” said Steve Bedi, Provost of physics and research, is mov- of Taylor University, quoting ing ahead. Luke Gascho, Director of the This improved model is a Merry Lea Center in Goshen product of unifi ed collaboration College. between the science faculty, This fresh design includes administration, business and building a 72,000 square fi nance offi ce, architects, engi- foot footprint and complet- neers and contractors. ing 45,000 square feet of the The building emphasizes the building without exceeding $21 importance of stewardship by million. The unique complex meeting green design certifi - will stand parallel to the north cation standards and winning side of the Nussbaum Science approval for the Leadership in Center, with a goal of making a Energy and Environmental De- grand statement about the im- sign, a rating developed by the portance of science at Taylor to U.S. Green Building Council. those who enter the campus by The green design comes after the new entrance. a $50 million building plan pro- “I’m encouraged that we have posed last October was scaled an innovative and energy effi - back in August. cient design,” Voss said. “There The new design allows for are some exciting features … it’s programs like like advancing a neat thing to be involved in.” undergraduate research, K-12 Voss and Mark Colgan, as- education partnerships, stud- sociate dean of the division ies in issues in science and re- of natural sciences, met with ligion and greater opportunities the architects Tuesday to deal Photo by Ellen Koch for global engagement, Provost with the general design of the Freshman Rob Summer watches freshman Reed Spencer get slimed Thursday during My Generation Night. Stephen Bedi. complex. More details will be The event's theme was Nickelodeon, which provided students an opportunity to reminisce about the shows “(It will) make a statement confi rmed during the coming they watched as children. The show featured 12 song performances, as well as skits and commercials. about what is worth learning weeks, and the board of trustees and how it is to be learned,” said will receive a preliminary report See more photos from My Generation Night 2007 on Pages 4-5 Bedi, quoting Luke Gascho, Di- at its meeting in February. One in four students has cheated 360 institutions worldwide that at Taylor because there hasn’t ment indicating they will live Part 2 of an Echo promotes educational ethics. been too much distinction (be- with integrity while at the col- “Unfortunately, the numbers tween Christian colleges and lege. In addition, some secular special report for Christian colleges aren’t sig- secular colleges),” he said. “On schools, like the University of nifi cantly lower (than at secu- most of the indicators … about Virginia, have traditional honor BY CHRISSIE THOMPSON lar institutions),” said Steven 20 to 25 percent of students codes that students sign, often EDITOR IN CHIEF Jones, a sociology professor will admit to having (cheated) saying they will report others at Grove City College in Grove at least once.” who break the code. Taylor students are as likely City, Pa. “We ought not be too To determine scientifi cally But Ball State University, a to cheat on honor system grad- surprised. The divorce rate is how many students were cheat- secular college in nearby Mun- ing policies as their secular col- about the same. The premarital ing, Grove City distributed a cie, neither uses honor system lege counterparts, an Echo sur- sex rate is about the same.” survey the Center for Academic grading procedures nor has an vey found this Jones is part Integrity has used to determine honor code, Associate Provost week. of a group that the percentage of students who Marilyn Buck said. In an un- On our honor? has spent two are academically dishonest at “We don’t want to tempt s c i e n t i f i c years studying hundreds of institutions. Insti- students,” she said. “It’s not a Internet sur- academic dis- tutions may join the center and matter of distrusting students vey sent to honesty at the use the assessment to survey up as much as it is not to put them all Upland Christian col- to 500 students and 200 faculty in a situation where they would students, 27 lege after ad- for a cost of $900. be tempted to do things that percent of the ministrators re- As a result of the survey, some they’re not supposed to … I 700 respon- alized students Grove City faculty have reduced don’t think that’s fair as profes- dents said they had “fudged” were cheating on honor system- their use of honor system grad- sors to do that to students.” an honor system grade in their graded assignments like those ing procedures. Jones said he Taylor’s sense of honor has time at Taylor. at Taylor. expects his committee will soon a long history, said Thomas The percentage matches “We found out that our per- recommend additional moral Jones, dean of arts and scienc- the national average of stu- centages of academic dishon- education and an honor code. es. Years ago, Taylor even had a dents who cheat as determined esty actually match up with the Many Christian colleges al- student court, he said. through the Center for Academ- national statistics, and I would ready have an honor code, or ic Integrity, a consortium of imagine they would be the same students at least sign a docu- See Honor, Page 2. Graphic by Katherine Gration Elephant, donkey or chicken: Mock election educates voters BY MAKENZIE DOEPKE gas prices is simply, “Free gas identity is unimportant to the STAFF WRITER for everyone!” political issue at hand. His opponent, Joe Mary Can, “I don’t want there to be any The battle for January Term sticks by his motto on war and element of the actual people in- Student Body President has of- invasion of troops: volved,” he said. “It’s supposed fi cially begun as the two pro- “If it can move, it can fi ght, to be fi ctional.” spective candidates, P.O. Cluck- and if it can fi ght, we can attack The voting took place this er and Joe Mary Can, began it!” week in the dining commons campaigning this week across Can also supports lowering and also at a table that was campus. taxes and providing health care set up during My Generation Senior Caleb Farmer, a mem- for the top 10 percent of stu- Night. Two commercials aired ber of Taylor Student Organiza- dents on Taylor’s campus. during the campus-wide event, tion, created the campaign to Farmer said the J-term pres- promoting both candidates. A encourage Taylor students to ident the campaign is a good senior seminar group took on vote in the 2008 election. Stu- way to increase interest in poli- the responsibility of manning dents must register to vote in tics around campus. the voting tables, collecting ab- the state of Indiana or fi ll out “There has been a large de- sentee ballots and registration forms for an absentee ballot cline in political awareness forms, as well as calculating the before voting for either mock among college age students and votes for the election. candidate. this is a way to try and engage The group put on the election P.O. Clucker supports lower- them (in voting),” he said. as an assignment for the re- Photo by Timmy Huynh ing gas prices, free health care The candidates are portrayed quired senior class to confront Two fi ctional candidates fi ght Wednesday in the dining commons for the vote of and animal rights. Clucker’s by two Taylor students, but a social concern they believe Sophomore Eric Rohrbach. campaign motto for lowering Farmer stated that their true faces Americans today. News NEWS NOVEMBER 16, 2007 PAGE 2 Honor, from Page 1 “There was a sense that if Taylor re- fessor, said he allows students to grade ally were truly a Christian university that their own homework so they can live up to students ought to be able to police them- his expectations of integrity, but the sys- Highlights from nearly selves,” he said. “That begins with stu- tem also makes his job less “tiresome,” he Have you ever fudged dents accepting, personally, responsibility said. 200 comments that for modeling biblical characteristics – and “The downside of being a professor is an honor system grade certainly being honest is foremost among grading,” he said. “So it helps me.” accompanied responses those characteristics.” Mathematics Professor Jeremy Case at Taylor? often lets students to The Echo's poll about 27% take exams on their “There was a sense that ... honor so they can honor system grading spend as much time students ought to be able to as they need, and he “I have fudged, yes. But I have never regretted allows student col- a choice so much. For me, (the honor system) police themselves.” laboration on home- helped me stop cheating.” work.
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