THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OlUME 38: ISSUE 93 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Partner Faculty, students laud turnitin.com discusses By JOE TROMBELLO corporate Assistant News Editor More than one-and-a-half years after purchasing a contract from governance turnitin.com - a service that allows faculty members to check student papers for Internet pla­ giarism - faculty and students By MATT BRAMANTI say the policy has been relatively News Writer effective at both deterring plagia­ rism and catching its occurrence. The University purchased the Larry !Heger, a partner with service in May 2002 at a cost of South Bend-based accounting about $6,000 per year, according firm Crowe Chizek, spoke to student honor code officer Tuesday in the Mendoza College Kelly Bennett. Thomas Flint, fac­ of Business' Giovanini Commons ulty honor code officer, said the on "Good Corporate Governance: service merely acts as one tool More than Compliance." faculty can use to detect plagia­ Hinger said the subject of his rism and is not meant to be a def­ talk reflected the post-Enron inite measure of cheating. corporate environment. "Our goal in providing this serv­ "(Governance! is a topic that's ice to faculty was to offer them a SOFIA BALLON!The Observer gone from the boardroom to the quick and relatively simple way of breakfm;t table," he said. A student completes Internet research at the Coleman-Morse Center computer cluster. determining whether a paper Professors have the option to check students' work for plagiarism at turnltln.com. Hieger said that during his that in some way appeared suspi­ nxperiencc with major account­ cious included material from ing firms, he's been privy to the semesters, for over 1,000 cases tion of the Honor Code, with 12 giarized from Internet sources. Internet sources," he said. total. As of Jan. 23, 17 Honor "major" violations and nine whole gamut of ethical situation. Flint also said that only two of Flint said that approximately Code cases had been reported "minor" ones. Flint said that the 10 Internet-based plagiarL<>m "In 29 years at Arthur 300 papers have been submitted Andersen. I was in on over 1,000 this academic year. Flint said 21 many of the Honor Code viola­ to the service in each of the three students had been found in viola- tions were because of essays pia- see HONOR/page 6 audit committee meetings," Heiger said. "I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly in audit committees." Heiger left Andersen after its collapse in 2002, when the firm was found guilty of obstructing justice in Students discuss racial environment at ND the Enron case by shredding documents related to the case. debate, students who chose to By CLAIRE HEININGER speak expressed concern that lie then joined Crowe Chizek, Assistant News Editor the nation's eighth-largest while the dialogue was extremely accounting firm, where he heads In what started out as a forum valuable, it was being conducted the corporate governance and to debate affirmative action and mostly by minorities and, there­ risk management department. became a free-flowing discussion fore, was not reaching the audi­ In his pn~scntation, Hieger of race at Notre Dame, approxi­ ence that they felt needed to hear said the idea of corporate gover­ mately 70 students and faculty it most. nance should be explicitly met in the Coleman-Morse Junior Katrina Picon said that defined in order to be studied. Center Tuesday night to air their she had encouraged several of "It's the systems and processes beliefs about diversity - but her Caucasian friends to attend an organization has in place to SOFIA BALLON!The Observer often wondered if they were the discussion, but that most Students and faculty discuss affirmative action In the preaching to the choir. see ETHICS/page 4 Coleman-Morse Center lounge Tuesday night. Several times throughout the see DIVERSITY/page 9 Student wins design competition Legends hosts beer By JOE TROMBELLO A.<si.-tanr News Editor informational event A reluctance to take out his Herter showed students a trash led to a $3,000 payoff for By MATT BRAMANTI PowerPoint presentation junior art design major Brad News Writer about the brewing of beer Jolitz. throughout history. Jolitz was recently awarded It was the course every col­ One slide featured a photo first place in the International lege student dreams of: Beer of ancient Babylonian stone Housewares Association 101. Tuesday night at tablets dating back to 4300 Student Design Competition, a Legends, brew guru Jim BC - the earliest recorded contest that Notre Dame stu­ Herter had two-dozen stu­ beer recipe. dent<; had frequently entered in dents at rapt attention as he The presentation was punc­ the past. but never won. His discussed the popular bever­ tuated with "beer factoids." design- He-Bag- is an easy­ age that generated $45 bil­ For example, the famous Brad lion in U.S. sales in 2002. to-load. compact trashcan com­ Junior Brad Jolltz, who won a product design competition with Budweiser Clydesdale horses The event was an effort to posed of biodegradable materi­ his Re-Bag, works at his desk with the device behind him. each weigh nearly 2,300 als. It beat out 197 other entries teach students that the world pounds and stand six feet tall from undergraduates, gradu­ of beer is more than at the shoulder. ates and student teams at some ticularly wanted to take out the no one wants to do it." watered-down pitchers at the The event also featured of the top art design programs trash. Jolitz said that trash duty Jolitz said that the name for Boat Club, Herter said. free samples of beer from in the country. was often a common problem his product, which came near "I can just sit at a table and area microbreweries. Charles "I was absolutely thrilled and hassle. the final stages of the design talk about beer with people Krcilek, president of Back when I found out - ecstatic," "No one wants to take out the process, represents its function. for hours," he said. Road Brewery in LaPorte. he said. trash," he said. "We cram so Jolitz's prepared his project Herter's official title is said he was excited to partic­ .Jolitz said he conceived of the much in there. There are never for a product design class, an business manager with Notre ipate in the event. idea while sitting in his dorm any bags anywhere, so we end expectation of which was that Dame Food Services, but he's "We're a local craft brewer, room and speaking with his up ha\ling to steal someone also a self-proclaimed "beer roommates, none of whom par- else's. It's kind of a hassle and see DESIGN/page 6 geek." see BEER 101/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 18, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ARE THE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM'S CHANCES OF MAKING THE NCAA TOURNAMENT? Just get over it I'm sick and tired of hearing about all of the "political apathy" in the 2004 Notre Dame Student Body Presidential elections. Brian Hughes Chris Fortner Elizabeth Chifton Jeanie Foley Sean Rose Steve Maher First of all, this opinion only really Junior Freshman Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Freshman seems to be O'Neill Breen-Phillips Pangborn Siegfried Alumni voiced by Charlie Alumni Ebersol's camp and a few mem­ "They're better "Getting "We are going "They're better "We should be a "Better than my bers of various number one chances of campus media than they were revenge on to kick butt. We than Ohio outlets. last week." Syracuse will have been State's seed." getting some Unfortunately, boost us all the strong the last chances. " action." this group has way. few games and been very vocal recently. I'd like Chris Federico are going to to take this space win. Go Irish!" to voice a dis- senting opinion. Sports Writer How, in an election where 1,000 votes swung from the primary to the runoff elections, can you say voters IN BRIEF were apathetic? If anything they were determined -determined to see a candidate Professor Claude Eilers of they did not want to hold the office McMaster University will deliv­ of President lose the election. So those students that came out to vote er a lecture entitled, "The in the second election or that Origins of Rome's Jewish changed their vote from Ebersol to Community" today at 4:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by Adam Istvan made an emphatic the Department of Classics and statement as to whom they wanted to win the election. will be held in 320 Malloy Hall. And if anyone has a right to com­ Theology on Tap will be held plain about the voting procedure, tonight from 9:30 to 10:30 it's Istvan. Based on the grade-by· p.m. at Legends. This week's grade breakdown of the primary theme is "Giving to Christ­ election and the final Senate vote. it appeared Istvan carried a vast Giving to Cas ear." majority of off-campus votes (which Students may attend an is roughly 1,600 students - or near­ ly an entire class), yet he only got information meeting on a credit for the vote of one senator for study abroad program in this, while Ebersol got the same vote Seville, Spain, a new option for carrying Carroll Hall and its 100 for Notre Dame students in fall or so residents.