Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 2004 2-26-2004 Daily Eastern News: February 26, 2004 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 26, 2004" (2004). February. 17. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_feb/17 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2004 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. N “Tell the truth February 26, 2004 THURSDAY and don’t be afraid.” VOLUME 88, NUMBER 107 Teeing off THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM Men’s Panther golf team places seventh out of 12 teams in first action of the spring season at Charleston, S.C. tournament. Page 12 SPORTS Eastern What water hike will mean N University will pay average of testing new $1,500 a month for water. Increase in water rates N 3.2 increase will result in new plagiarism charge of $7.07 per 1,000 gallons. substantial to Eastern Gary Reed, Eastern’s director of “We haven’t done a projection mately 30 percent off our con- By Michael Schroeder physical plant facilities and man- yet, but the total utilities budget sumption.” program CITY REPORTER agement, said the school used will have to allocate the funds,” The 3.2 percent water rate 78,322,599 gallons of water in the Assistant Comptroller Richard increase also will affect off-cam- By Evan Hill A 3.2 percent increase in the fiscal year 2003. Edwards said. pus students and Charleston resi- CAMPUS EDITOR water rate may not be significant The city now charges Eastern Reed said the water fluctuates dents whose charges will increase when one’s water bill is only $6.85 per 1,000 gallons of water from month to month. September from $7.11 to $7.34 per 1,000 gal- It would be difficult to find any- around $15 a month; however, used. The 3.2 percent raise will has the highest usage rate whereas lons of water. one on a college campus who when the bill is around $45,000 a result in a new charge of $7.07. December’s is the least. Mayor Dan Cougill said the city believes plagiarism is fair and a month it makes quite a difference. This additional cost of $1,500 The majority of the water used has always given Eastern a break good idea, but some students still The city council placed an ordi- each month for water will add up to by Eastern goes to the housing on the water rate. try to take the easy way out. nance on file for public inspection approximately $17,231 a year. facilities, he said. With the reduced rate, the city Before the Internet, professors last week to increase the charge Reed said the budget accounted “The campus used a lot more saved Eastern approximately relied upon their own instincts and for water by 3.2 percent per gallon for a 2 percent raise. However, (water) prior to the water conser- $20,500 during the 2003 fiscal year. memory to spot plagiarism, but next year. now he must rebalance the budget vation efforts implemented “If you go all the way back to now Eastern is testing a new, com- This increase will cost Eastern to account for the additional 1.2 between 1999 and 2001,” he said. N puterized system to spot plagia- an average $1,500 a month. percent, he said. “Those initiatives shaved approxi- SEE W ATER Page 9 rism with the click of a mouse. Turnitin is a program utilizing databases of published works and the Internet to determine if any similarities exist between a paper submitted electronically by a pro- fessor and the billions of docu- ments archived by iParadigms, the company behind Turnitin. How it works According to Turnitin’s Web site, every paper submitted for plagia- rism-prevention is returned in the form of a customized, color-coded “Originality Report,” which gives the details of any similarities found. Turnitin’s creator, John Berry, said each electronically submitted paper undergoes a search of three database systems. The first search is of a copy of the Internet iParadigms updates 24 hours a day. Currently the copy is comprised of 4.34 billion pages and is continually updated with auto- mated web crawler servers at a rate of 40 million pages a day. Berry said, a 45 megabyte per sec- ond T1 connection and 13 racks of server computers for storage are required to maintain this copy of the Internet. The web crawlers work by start- ing with about 50,000 “seed” pages. They download each of these pages and then follow every link on each page, download the resulting pages, follow the new links and so on, Berry said. The second search is of a data- DAILY EASTERN NEWS PHOTO BY STEPHEN HAAS base of academic journals called Proquest, which Berry said was Flocking to ‘Christ’ the largest and most comprehen- A Kerasotes Theatres employee counts out 309 tickets for “The Passion of the Christ” Wednesday afternoon for Matt and Mike Southards of First sive database of its kind and con- Christian Church in Charleston at the Showplace 8 Theatre in Mattoon. The Southards bought 25 tickets for Saturday’s performance for their youth tains the majority of all publica- group and 283 tickets for March 7 for anyone who wants to go see the movie. Mike Southard, pastor of the church, also bought one ticket for himself for tions worldwide. yesterday afternoon’s opening show. The church can be reached at 345-2823 for any questions regarding the March 7 showing. Finally, each paper is run through iParadigms’ own propri- etary database that includes every paper previously submitted through Turnitin. Berry said the database currently contains Ethics law deadline may not be met “upwards of 10 million papers” with about 20,000 coming in each By Kevin Sampier Education gave organizations, including the gover- that agree the bill was not intended day. ADMINISTRATION EDITOR universities 30 nor’s office, last January. for university use with teachers. days to create Rausch said she is not sure what “It’s an unnecessary burden for Usage Issues An ethics law requiring all state the system. will happen to universities and everyone to fill out, every 15 min- employees to document their work The 30 day time other organizations if they are not utes, what they’ve done,” Hencken in 15 minute increments will take period will be in compliance with the law. said. One question addressed on effect March 1, but Eastern may up on March 1, Hencken said a sample time Faculty members across cam- Turnitin’s Web site is how students’ not be ready to comply by then. Hencken said. card has been created here and pus agree with Hencken and have intellectual property rights are “I don’t know if we’re going to be A meeting that he “wants to be consistent with said the requirement will take time handled when Turnitin receives able to comply with that (date),” between other universities.” away from more important activi- Lou Hencken their papers. Eastern President Lou Hencken Hencken and The bill was created to prevent ties. Everything iParadigms does said Wednesday other universi- state employees from campaigning Jean Wolski, associate professor with students’ papers falls under During the last Board of ty presidents was scheduled for 4 for political candidates while on of theater arts, said the ethics law the “fair use” portion of United Trustees meeting, Hencken was p.m. Wednesday, in which methods the clock, said Jeff Cooley, vice will add an additional workload to States copyright law and “is not given the power to create and of time recording would be dis- president for business affairs. instructors. harming the market value of the implement a system for recording cussed, Hencken said. “No one can argue with that part “I think a lot of people would be work” said Berry. the 15 minute time periods of the “I’m going to suggest we get an of the law,” Hencken said. shocked at how much time faculty A response on the Web site stat- state employees at Eastern. interpretation of the law from the But administrators and faculty members spend working in and out ed iParadigms’ research had deter- Professors, administrators, build- Attorney General or the ethics members think this original inten- of the classroom,” Wolski said. “I mined there was little or no copy- ing service workers and others are commission,” he said. tion of the law is lost on professors don’t think it’s been thought right law conflicts. included in those needing to keep Rebecca Rausch, spokeswoman and other workers. through particularly well,” she N record. for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, said the Hencken said he has spoken to N SEE PROGRAM Page 9 The Illinois Board of Higher law went into effect for other legislators who worked on the bill SEE DEADLINE Page 9 Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Sunny Sunny Mostly sunny Light showers Light showers Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Thursday , 46º 28º 52º 31º 55º 42º 57º 43º 45º 36º 47º 35º 47º 34º February 26, 2004 HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW Students, residents donate blood, register for database By Chris Kee body at today’s blood drive,” said Donor STAFF WRITER Relations Coordinator Melissa Webb. Some at the blood and bone marrow Students and local residents gathered at drive said they were just following the Eastern’s African American Cultural examples of others.