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See how the USU Lone Senior Matt Hamilton Thursday herbarium led USU to is helping its first-ever road sweep in March 21, 2013 Cache Valley Colorado www.utahstatesman.com Page 4 inmates Page 7 8WDK6WDWH8QLYHUVLW\/RJDQ8WDK UtahThe Statesman JCOM Department hires new head BY ASHLYN TUCKER Pease joined the depart- the time schedule of aca- definitely gets noticed for staff writer ment as department head demia and take a long view all that they do. The pro- in 1994 and has held the on tasks to be done. gram is known throughout Ted Pease, head of the position since with a gap “There is a certain cycle Utah as the place to go department of journalism from 2005 to 2008. of how things get done in to get a communications and communication, will “Now that I have been academia that is on its own degree. retire at the end of the around longer than some timeframe and has no rela- “We don’t have as much spring 2013 semester and of my students have been tionship to normal, natural money as BYU,” Pease said. assume a part-time profes- alive, it’s time for me to do reality,” he said. “I have had “We are not as big as the U sor role. something else,” he said. THOMAS TERRY to marshal my impatience.” TED PEASE and we are out here in the Thomas Terry, an associ- When asked what he Throughout his time boonies, but we still make ate professor and former liked about his job, Pease is really a creative activity,” as department head, bers reached into the upper the best professional com- chair of the department of said there are both pros he said. “You can make Pease said he has seen the 400s. municators in the state of mass communication at and cons to being a man- stuff happen and get things department grow from Pease is very proud of Utah.” Idaho State University will ager. done.” 150 students to about 300 the students and alumni of Pease said he plans to be filling Pease’s position “All the crap lands here, Pease said his position students. Some years under the journalism department beginning this fall. but being an administrator has taught him to work on his leadership, the num- and said the department See JCOM, Page 3 Students nationwide scramble to make college work BY ERIC ADLER AND time online student at Missouri MARA ROSE WILLIAMS Southern State University who The Kansas City Star (MCT) previously attended the University of Kansas. In its idealized conception, While at KU, Hill said, she sold college is an ivory tower where plasma twice a week while also students through quiet contem- working at a coffee shop to pay her plation or raucous self-discovery bills. ready themselves for “the real “College is expensive. I was world.” making $60 a week donating But as college student Korchi my plasma,” said Hill, who said Yang can attest, and as 2 million she earned thousands of dollars college applicants awaiting their over three years this way. “All my financial aid packages may soon friends were doing it, too. I used to discover, being a hardworking round everyone up and drive them student these days means precisely all with me to the plasma center.” that. For the majority of students Work. who don’t go to such lengths, how- Not just the on-campus work- ever, the daily working world has study variety. This is real-world become the prime option. work: 20 or 30 hours a week or For years, studies have found more. that holding a job for 10 to 15 One out of every five college hours a week during college can students works full time, 35-plus actually help students perform hours a week, all year long, accord- better in the classroom. But stu- ing to the most recently released dents today are going far beyond census figures. With college bills that limit, experts say. at record highs, students say it’s Too many hours has a price all not a choice. It’s a must. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SENIOR COLLEEN MONAGHAN tends a bar at The Wheel near its own. Average student debt now sits at campus in Larence, Kan., as a way to help pay her college expenses. She says working nights sometimes “The toll it takes on students $26,600. The cost to attend a pub- leaves her with only four hours sleep. Jill Toyoshiba photo, MCT is pretty significant,” said Josh lic four-year college, with room Gunn, president-elect of the and board, on average: $17,860 per jumped 8.3 percent last year, the College bills have become so of their physical selves: plasma, American College Counseling year. Private: $40,000. biggest increase on record, accord- onerous for some, in fact, that last sperm, eggs, their bodies for medi- Association and director of After subtracting grants and ing to a report released last week month The Chronicle of Higher cal clinical studies. counseling and psychological scholarships, tuition paid by by the State Higher Education Education reported on a brisk “It’s fast, easy money,” said students at public universities Executive Officers association. market for students selling parts Nikki Hill, a 25-year-old, full- See JOBS, Page 2 Congress takes a pass, so far, on college sports scandals BY RENEE SCHOOF ished players with cash, women Educational Rights and Privacy other non-educational informa- August 2011, when McClatchy AND DAN KANE and other benefits. Act of 1974, known as FERPA, has tion. Newspapers’ The News & McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) But it’s a 16-year academic been used to keep even police and North Carolina, one of the top Observer of Raleigh, N.C., fraud case at the University of state officials in the dark. public universities in the country obtained the transcript of a foot- WASHINGTON — Several North Carolina that has crystal- At Oklahoma State, Bryant said that also boasts one of the pre- ball star showing a B-plus in an groups have been tapping on lized concerns that a federal school officials mistakenly told mier college basketball programs, upper-level class before he had the door of Congress lately with academic records privacy law has reporters that the law prevented was the scene of one of the worst- even begun his first full semester a request for oversight into the been used by schools as a tool them from reporting sexual ever academic scandals at an as a freshman. often opaque, big-money world of to keep certain records from the assault complaints to the police. American university. The school, Since then, university officials college sports. public that critics believe should FERPA was intended to protect known as a “public Ivy,” quietly have acknowledged that there But the door seems shut tight. be kept open. student privacy, primarily grades. placed hundreds of students — have been more than 200 bogus There’s been no shortage of “There is not a culture of trans- But educational institutions many of them athletes — in classes in the department. A front-page scandals involving parency,” said James Sears Bryant, have used it to keep other kinds lecture-style classes in the African recent independent investigation blue-chip collegiate athletic an attorney who was involved in of records secret — including studies department, which never found that the more than 450 programs, from the Penn State a campus privacy issue related disciplinary actions after sexual met, and which only required of unauthorized grade changes in child sex abuse tragedy to the to sexual assault complaints at assault reports, parking tickets them a term paper at the end, the classes were spread among University of Miami booster-gate Oklahoma State University that would show what kind of cars which likely wasn’t read. episode, where an avid fan lav- Sometimes the law, the Family student-athletes are driving, and The fraud began to unravel in See SCANDAL, Page 3 New details show Florida student was likely planning campus massacre BY DENISE-MARIE them hell.” accomplished some of the items roommate since fall 2012, said, Seevakumaran “didn’t say a ORDWAY As UCF police on Tuesday on his check list, including the described a frightening scene in single word.” AND STEPHEN HUDAK unveiled more details of pulling of a fire alarm. his third-floor dorm room that Then, Babakhani said, he Orlando Sentinel (MCT) Seevakumaran’s behavior, it Seevakumaran, 30, pulled the morning. heard “pops,” which he assumes became clear that he was capa- alarm in the Tower 1 student Babakhani, a 24-year-old engi- were gunshots. Police said ORLANDO, Fla. — James ble, and likely planning, a mas- housing complex at about 12:20 neering major, said he was in Tuesday that only one shot was Oliver Seevakumaran had about sacre on campus. a.m. — an action that prompted his bedroom in Apartment 308 fired — when Seevakumaran put 1,000 rounds of ammunition, an Seevakumaran had received an evacuation of the buildings’ when he heard the fire alarm go a bullet in his head.