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  • b March 25th, 2011 WESTERN CAROLINIAN. - Page 2 . NEWS WCU professor one of 18 featured in science education book for kids From Staff Reports Jim Costa, professor of biology at Western Carolina | University and director of ' Highlands Biological Sta- tion, is one of the 18 scien- tists, engineers, educators and others profiled in a re- cently published science education sourcebook titled Real Life Science Myster- ies.) Written for fifth- through eighth-graders, the book by Colleen Kessler features people in science-related ca- reers as a way to give kids a sense of the different paths - people take to finding their careers, how science works, and the sense of wonder and adventure that often is associated with scientific - pursuits. The book also pro- vides more than 30 hands- on projects related to each of the people and research areas profiled. In addition to. profiling Costas professional career and activities, Kessler de- - Student Community Ethics holding forums to raise awareness of academic dishonesty Lex Menz, News Editor The Department of Stu- sdent Community Ethics *(DSCE) is holding a stu- * dent-only academic integrity - forum on April 2 at 9 p.m. in Scott East. The Writing Center, Western PEAKS, - graduate students, and Holly _ Taylor will be presenting a ' discussion on being ethical and general academic integ- _ tity issues. Taylor, who has been : eng with the DSCE - From Staff Reports Western Carolina Uni- versity will celebrate the art- work of regional schoolchil- dren with the 2011 Jackson County Youth Art Month ex- hibit through Monday, April 11, in the lobby of WCUs Fine and Performing Arts Center. A reception will be held from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in the Star Lobby (just, outside WCUs Fine Art Museum, also in the Fine and Performing Arts Cen- ter), An announcement of prizewinners will be at 1:30 p.m. in FAPAC Room 130. More than 75 awards are given each year, with ap- proximately 500 people at- tending the reception. The event is free and the public is invited. - For more than 35 years, WCU has hosted Youth Art Month, an annual and na- tional observance that em- phasizes the value of art education for all children and encourages public sup- port for quality school art programs. Each year, more than 3,000 viewers come to veloped two hands-on ac- tivities related to Costas research with insect behav- ior and how insects learn and communicate. ree in- since 2006, said that the big- gest reason for breaking the academic integrity code is be- cause students become over- whelmed by their amount of school work and try to take short cuts. oy | think students get stressed out and flustered... she said. A lot of student get crunched for time and think its easier. Her other idea was that students were never taught _ to cite resources properly : and make mistakes. volves Madagascar iccine cockroaches and a maze. In the other, tent caterpillars communicate paths to food sources to other caterpillars a - According fo findings from the DSCE, there has not been a recent uprising in aca- _ demic integrity offenders but instead professors are un- derstanding the policy and submitting peoples names, said Taylor. Plagiarism has occurred mostly on long-term papers and end-of-semester papers while academic integ- rity overall has seen a major hit on technological submis- sions, such as online tests and Blackboard assignments. In Tecent research, Taylor by leaving Bherdca: ite ers on a trail. The idea is to let cat- erpillars search branching paths until no find the food reported that female rather than male students are report- ed more for plagiarism. On Wednesday, March 23, there was a Gender Conference where the new findings were discussed. Currently, there is no theory as to why more women violate the policy. When a student breaks the academic integrity poli- cy; each situation is handled separately from any other. In the spring semester of 2010, the policy was changed. Be- fore, the ee sat down PHOTO BY ASHLEY T. EVANS heidi at tthe end ake one 6 of them, and then put addition- al caterpillars at the start of the maze to see if they take equally long to search or se- ah the head of the depart- ment. The DSCE felt this was unfair and wanted to give the student a chance to listen to _and discuss the situation with the person who was accusing them. Now, a student will sit down with the accusing fac- ulty member in order to reach a verdict. The faculty mem- ber gets to decide the pun- ishment. Consequences may include community services, an extra assignment, or an F on the assignment or as a fi- nal grade. se are students ~ Jackson County student art on exhibit through April 11 at Western Art Center at Western Carolina University, with a a reception and award ceremony to be held April. 1 0. appreciate work by students in kindergarten through 12th grade, selected by school art teachers for exhibition, said Erin Tapley, event organiz- er and associate professor of art education in WCUs School of Art and Design, Newspaper to adjust delivery schedule From Staff Reports hd In the month of April, the Western Carolinians deliv- ery schedule will change for a couple reasons. First, beginning with the newspapers next issue (Apri 7), the Western Caro- linian will begin to distrib- ute on Thursdays instead of Fridays. Since the Western -Carolinian is now published at a plant in Seneca, S.C. that has the capabilities to print the newspaper quicker then our past press plants a and deliver it to Cullowhee, promptly, we will now be on newsstands a day earlier. The Western Carolinians second April issue will not be published on this new delivery schedule, however, tue to a Western Carolina University . break in late- April. The newspaper that would have been delivered on April 21 will be on new- stands on Monday, April 25. The April 25 newspaper will be the last one of the spring semester before. Production will resume in mid-May. 4 part of the College of Fine and Performing Arts. WCU Art Education Club students select work for awards, with some winning work includ- ed in the permanent Youth Art Month collection housed in WCUs Killian Build- ing and lent to the Jackson County Board of Education on a rotating basis. The focus of Youth Art Month is to convey the mes- sage that art education de- velops_ self-esteem, visual literacy and an ability to produce meanisihul materi- al form, Tapley said. Jack- son County is forfunate to have an art teacher in each of its public schools who ed- ucates students in the history and aesthetics of art-making and gives them opportuni- REACH THOUSANDS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS, CALL JUSTIN AT 828-227-2694 FOR RATES. ~ both faculty and students. : : au . lect the correct branch more quickly. They will typically select the correct one more quickly because the caterpil- lars that went before them actually leave a chemical marker to help keep track of where they are exploring, ~~ said Costa. Part of the intent behind the activities like the tent. caterpillar experiment is to illustrate for kids how sci- ence works, how even a sim- ple apparatus can be used to ask and answer scientific questions, and to relate that to the bigger-picture impor- tance of science in society, said Costa. For me, thats more important than the information the kids learn about these insects them- selves in this activity.The book is the latest Prufrock Press has published by Kessler, who also authored Super Hands-On Ecology Experiments, Research, Art, and Writing Activities. suspended or kicked out of the University. Students and faculty both have rights in the process, said Taylor. The DSCE is there to help. Already there have been two forums, one about pre- vention and the ethics of cheating and the other in- volving resources and Order of Omega. A third forum will cover academic integrity in mid- to late-April involving ties to critically analyze the meaning of art in their daily lives, Tapley said. Participating schools and their art teachers are Smoky Mountain High School (Gayle Woody and : Ben Cook); Scotts Creek - School (Barbara Wilkes); Cullowhee Valley School (Penelope Adams); Fair- view School (Leah Ayling); School of Alternatives, or Hub (Kansas _ Heiskell); Smokey Mountain Elemen- : f tary School (Jenniffer Dall); Blue Ridge School (John Speier); Summit Charter School (Leslie Rosenberg); and Mountain Discovery School (Corky Ashcroft). Event sponsors include the Jackson County Arts - Council and WCUs Art Education Club, School of Art and Design, and College of Education and Allied Pro- fessions. The Fine and Performing Arts Center lobby is open from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Monday through Friday and before performances, during intermissions and a per- formances. Smart Science, and . Ecology and Conservation:
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