"VWwv? vow 5ftw from one -i M«My activities highlight Author, rt's ptegi-jr/em it ...see page 6 you sfM# fr.-m man/, it $ fQsetitcf' " Wilson Mtznor ...see page 8 1876-1933 iiKimii' 'ii i) cumin—i FRIDAY, <?PRIL 10, 1987 YOCINGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY VOL. 68, NO. 3 Tuition may increase as House approves budget By L.M Robinson, Vice President Todd Vreeland, Se• Jambar Managing Editor cond Vice President Amy Otley and A&S Regents halt Wick housing representative Heather Stefanish attended the Students attending state-run colleges will pro• Columbus meeting. The YSU group met with By I H SOLLEY bably see a tuition increase in their bills for 1988. local state representatives throughout the day. iai*>bi r rtanag nt Ff* to This is the assumption of Student Government "The representatives told us that they made President Marvin Robinson after attending Jhe cuts from many areas of Celeste's budget. Ohio General Assembly meeting Tuesday, April However, the only other large portion of the 7 in Columbus. budget that money could have come from was Robinson's assumption came as the result of welfare and they couldn't do much with that," ex• the Ohio House of Representatives passing plained Robinson. Governor Richard F. Celeste's 1988 bi-ennium The budget proposal will now go to the Ohio budget proposal Wednesday. Senate. According to Robinson, many of the Celeste proposed a low-growth bi-ennium House members said they thought the Senate budget for 1988. The Ohio Student Association keep the recommendations and also approve the (OSAJ opposed this budget, stating that tuition budget. costs could not be kept at 36 percent (students (. ** *. btode u Go-zetrmw preside^th it Depending on. whether or not higher education presently pay 36 percent of the cost of their *,cr eduiod to dppd i ur f "day's agenda receives any additional funds, Robinson said that education). The OSA ask for a $240 million in• i tf *ou J bt» app < rtt?) Hr jvpv*»^wnen students may face up to a 16 percent increase crease to be given to higher education. o1 *o rtcii"* «iure \* a?s coriej§ hp in tuition. 1 tip^jto hid been \ ^e o*' ^OplM'* OSA President Kathleen Murray, Universtiy of Although the House recommended a $200 pr ^reeled 'o 'oo-' r o V - m alp go Cincinnati, presented student petitions to House million increase, Robinson explained that this Speaker Vernal Riffe, opposing the low-growth money was for education in general and not Su- Government, S^e 7 budget. Robinson said that YSU collected only strictly higher education. See Council, page12 Plagiarism policy changes' professor's responsibilities By SCIEflfIN HINES Jambar Copy Editor Plagiarism is wrong, regardless of the violator's intent, said Dr. William Jenkins, history, in reference to YSU's Academic Senate passing a motion that would change the University's definition of the word. Previously, the definition took into account the accused plagiarist's intent in committing the offense. After passage in the Senate, the. new definition states: "The term 'plagiarism' means the use of someone else's words or ideas without proper acknowledgement." It leaves no room for intention. Jenkins said a specific case prompted the history department and the Academic Standards & Events Committee to formulate the new definition. > The case involved a student who was found to have "blatant• ly" plagiarized in a report, said Jenkins. The student was given the opportunity by the professor to rewrite the report. Upon doing so, Jenkins said the student plagiarized a second time. The case then went to the University's Disciplinary Board where writers the student denied the charge on the basis of having plagiarized unintentionally. The student was not punished Area high school students listen to Dr. Ouida Sebestyen, guest lecturer of the ninth annual English Festival, as she tells them of her writing experiences. See page 2 for additional stories Jenkins believes that when the intent factor is taken out of con• on the festival. sideration in plagiarism cases, less students who are repeat of• fenders will go unpunished. v See plagiarism, page 7 ish Festival flourishes on campus By SHANNON CASEY committee has offered to help Also in attendance at the San Diego State University, is Foster, is also participating in Spoclai to the Jam bar area colleges and universities festival are two lecturers from serving as a festival lecturer, as the activities. : "set up their own festivals to ac• San Diego. Dr. Lois Kuznets, well as observing the YSU Kenneth Davis, director of the Some of tomorrow's leading comodate the schools" outside president of the Children's festival to coordinate a similar Writing Program and associate authors, editors and journalists of the five counties. Literature Association and festival at her school. Another professor of English at the may have been inspired during A special delegation from associate professor of English professor from San Diego University of Kentucky, is also the annual English Festival at Kent State University is present and Comparative Literature at State, Dr. Frances Smith See Festival, page 5 YSU this week. at this year's festival to learn The internationally known about the event and to even• program for students, grades tually use YSU's festival as a Author lends advice from experience 7-12, was initiated by Thomas model for their own. In addition, Gay, English, and his wife, the many other schools, including late Dr. Carol Gay, in memory some in Wisconsin and By DEB SHflULIS of their 13-year-old daughter Georgia, have already put the Jambar Entertainment Editor Candace, who died of cancer in YSU model into effect. 1977. Gay said the festival js now This year's Carol Gay Memorial Lecturer, author Ouida Sebestyen, broke away from the Through the enthusiasm of protected by copyright, but re• traditional role of lecturer. Instead, Sebestyen spoke with her English Festival audience Thursday the Gay family, as well as the mains "in favor of helping in the Chestnut Room . YSU English Department, the schools in trying to set up their "I wrote you a speech, but I don't want to give it. It would please me a great deal if we festival, which first began as own programs." could talk about the things you want to talk about," said Sebestyen to the area junior-high single day event, has evolved Since the death of former students -and teachers in attendance. With that, the lecture turned into a question-answer into a three day event which at• festival chairman Carol Gay of session. tracts students and teachers cancer in 1985, the festival has Many of the questions Sebestyen fielded concerned her beginnings as an author. "I started from both Ohio and hosted a "Carol Gay Memorial writing a little... because I thought it was such a magic thing," Sebestyen said. "I was going Pennsylvania. Lecturer" each year. This year to be a writer with a capital 'W'." The YSU English Festival's Ouida Sebestyen is featured. "It's easy to feel discouraged when you're not being published," said Sebestyen, who waited popularity resulted in the Sebestyn is a well-known 35 years before her first book, Words By Heart, was published. "I felt like Cinderella when festival committee turning some author who has won the Inter• the slipper finally fit." 5,000 students from 25 schools national Reading Association Since Words By Heart, Sebestyen has written four other novels for young adults, including away this year. Children's Book. Award and' Far From Home. Both books received the ALA Best Book for Young Adults Award in 1979 whose books have been According to Gay, the festival and 1980, respectively. featured on festival book lists in is now limited to a five county In the writing process, "you simply have to sit and do a lot of what I call 'what iffing' —. previous years. area which covers Mahoning, what if this happened, what if that happened,' " Sebestyen said. Trumbull and Columbiana Gay said the festival commit• . "Don't be afraid of revising. You don't have to make it perfect the first time," advised Sebes• counties in Ohio, and Mercer tee is "very much impressed tyen, who writes on the back of old bills or Junk mail. and Lawrence Counties in with her," and describes her "You've got to read to be a writer. Read the good ones — no, read the bad ones, too, so Pennsylvania. Gay also books as having a "strong ap• you learn how not to do it," she said. - reported that the YSU festival peal to older adults." Aerobic Dancercise: KNOLLS PAINT CENTER 5329 Mahoning Ave. Youngstown, OH. 44515 Summer 792-6517 «.**8X Shape-Up!! 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