TUESDAY Spring fever March 22, 2005 THE DAIL Y CougarCougar springspring football starts today Cloudy Sports | 9 High: 56 | Low: 36 More weather, Page 2 Volume 111 | No. 126 | www.dailyevergreen.comEverEver | [email protected] grgrg eeneenA student publication of Washington State University | Pullman, Washington New state budget announced WSU gets more funding, smaller tuition increase From staff and wire reports Gov. Christine Gregoire’s proposed biennial budget will allow WSU to admit more stu- dents and create a better quali- ty of education, an official from the University Budget Office said Monday. “This budget allows the tuition increase to go to the university,” executive budget director Karl Boehmke said. In past years, Boehmke said, the state has increased tuition but also cut state funding. Next year, the money from the tuition increase will go to “improve the quality of the product,” Boehmke said. “The state of Washington Joe Barrentine/Daily Evergreen spends less per student than many competing states do,” Sarah Munro, right, a junior agriculture education major, along with Brandon McCarthy, left, a junior horticulture major, takes soil samples Boehmke said. “This will get March 4 at Tukey Orchard. McCarthy and Munro are preparing to plant grapes for the viticulture and enology club. us competing for faculty, mod- ern equipment for classrooms and more materials for the library.” Student starts vineyard at WSU The 5 percent tuition increase will generate $4 mil- Evan Caldwell lion, he said. Daily Evergreen staff James Evans, ASWSU direc- Brandon McCarthy hopes to start and tor of Legislative Affairs, said own a vineyard someday. students believe any increase That might be sooner than later – he’s in tuition should go to creating hoping to get some practice at starting a a better quality education. vineyard later this month. “That’s one of the things McCarthy, a sophomore viticulture and that should have been a given,” enology major, started taking soil samples he said. March 4 to eventually plant the first row The tuition increase is also of wine grapes later this month in WSU’s lower than past years, Evans Tukey Orchard on Airport Road east of said. Evans, who lobbies in campus. Olympia for WSU, said for “We might eventually produce some- the past two years, 7 percent thing,” McCarthy said. “But that’s the tuition increases were imple- problem – it takes time to get it off the mented. ground. Well, it’s got to start somewhere.” Gregoire’s proposed budget McCarthy said he hopes the vineyard will also provide an additional will eventually grow and produce enough 150 students to attend WSU’s grapes to make wine someday. Pullman campus per year, McCarthy grew up on his family’s vine- according to a news release. yard in California and fell in love with The budget gives WSU $7.2 growing and making wine. Joe Barrentine/Daily Evergreen million for new enrollment. “When I smell ... that smell from the “We have a ‘no vacancy’ sign fermentation process, it brings me back Sarah Munro checks the soil’s pH levels March 4 at Tukey Orchard. all too often,” Gregoire said of to my childhood,” he said. “I got hooked ... the state’s crowded colleges. and fell in love with it.” ball rolling,” he said. major offered at WSU. In addition to more stu- After coming to WSU and entering But until the small, unnamed vineyard The 3-year-old program has 22 stu- the viticulture and enology program, can grow into a crop worthy of bottling, dents in Pullman and eight students at dents in Pullman, the money McCarthy said he heard of the idea to McCarthy said the vineyard would be a the WSU Tri-Cities campus. will provide space for 20 more start a vineyard at WSU and decided to good hands-on learning experience for stu- William Hendrix, horticulture and land- students at WSU’s Spokane do something about it. dents in the viticulture and enology club scape architecture department chairman, branch, and 45 students for “I just kicked some butt and got the or in the growing viticulture and enology See VINEYARD, Page 4 See BUDGET, Page 4 Academic integrity report awaiting Faculty Senate approval Brian Everstine different offenses. The report, getconnected he said. The goal of the first section Contributing writer prepared by the Academic The report, which is posted is to make a new academic code Integrity Task Force, is waiting The full report is available at: in its entirety on the Faculty revising the definitions of dif- The way the university dis- for approval from the Faculty http://facsen.wsu.edu/commit- Senate Web site, is separated ferent types of cheating. covers and punishes students Senate before implementation. tees/AITF_title_page.html into three different sections, The second section covers for plagiarizing and cheating The task force is comprised each made by different subcom- what the task force is mak- might change. of faculty members, WSU undergraduate studies in the mittees. They include develop- ing the most important goal A new report defines dif- administration, and graduate English Department, said the ing a new integrity code, how to of the new report, to educate ferent types of plagiarism and and undergraduate students group is set up so students have educate the community about the WSU community about the cheating, ways to educate the at the Pullman and Vancouver a stronger say in the process. different topics of academic new process. WSU communities and pro- campuses. Paul Brians, task “I think we came up with integrity and recommendations Heidi Benjamin, the secre- posed consequences for the force chairman and director of something we are happy about,” for consequences. 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