See AMBASSADOR, Page 4 See PROVOST , Page 4 See FREEZE, Page 4 DAILY KENT STATER Tuesday, January 11, 2011 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow, HI 26, LO 21 LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM Kent Laundromats offer alternatives to residence hall laundry machines Julie Sickel [email protected]Daily Kent Stater For students whose moms don’t swing by Kent every week- end to pick up and drop off laun- dry, the task of getting clothes clean can be a daunting one. The more laundry stacks up, as it tends to do, the more money students can wind up spending. Students both on and off campus have many different options around Kent to get their clothes clean. One place to do laundry off campus is Laundry 101, located in the Acme plaza off state Route 59. Laundry 101 is affiliated with 101 Bottles and is Kent’s only Laundro- mat-bar combination. “I can sit down and have a beer while I wait for my laundry,” said Marty Cook, sophomore pre-nurs- ing major. “I can walk to Acme or get some Chinese. Sheetz is right across the street. It’s just a great loca- tion. Laundry isn’t exactly the most entertaining thing.” In addition to the in-house bar and snack area, Laundry 101 offers other entertainment like free Wi-Fi, pool tables, televisions and arcade games. “The staff is great, and I love the quad loaders,” Cook said. “I usually put off laundry, and this way I can get most of my laundry in a couple loads instead of five or six.” Washers at Laundry 101 cost Thornton evaluates success mid-term Daniel Moore [email protected]Daily Kent Stater Last August, Andre “Thun- der” Thornton was named President Lester Lefton’s first ambassador for the 2010- 2011 academic year. Halfway through his term, he said he feels he has made an impact. “My goal was certainly to promote Kent State, to offer my support to the diversity pro- gram and talk about ways in which we can increase, devel- LAUNDRY 101 Washers: $1.75 - $4.50 Dryers: 25 cents for 6 min. On Site Staff: Yes Wi-Fi: Yes Change Machine: accepts all bills Additional Services: Drop-off laundry service Extra Amenities: Bar, snack area, study area, arcade games, pool tables, televisions, separate gender bathrooms, ATM CAMPUS COIN Washers: $1.25 Dryers: 25 cents for 8-15 min. On Site Staff: No Wi-Fi: No Change Machine: accepts only $1 bills Additional Services: None Extra Amenities: Beverage vending machines, unisex bathroom, detergent available ON CAMPUS Washers: $2.50 Dryers: Free On Site Staff: No Wi-Fi: Yes for most Laundry Card: can be refilled at residence desks Additional Services: Laundry in a Flash Extra Amenities: N/A Getting clean in Kent between $1.75 and $4.50 depending on the size of the machine, and dry- ers cost 25 cents for 6 minutes. “(Laundry 101) is pricey, but that’s expected in a college area,” said Eric French, senior accounting and finance major. “I’ve never been in (Campus Coin Laundry) before; it just looks sketchy.” Campus Coin Laundry is located just up the road from Laundry 101, off East Main Street in the Penn Sta- tion Plaza. Campus Coin is owned and managed by Bruno’s Authentic Pizza, which is in the same plaza. “I like going (to Campus Coin) because it’s inexpensive, and I don’t see a lot of people when I’m here,” said Amy Hawkins, junior history major. Washers cost $1.25, and a quarter will buy 8 to 15 minutes of drying time, depending on the dryer. Campus Coin doesn’t have an on-site staff, but patrons can go to Bruno’s Pizza for assistance or dol- lar bills for the change machine. Like Laundry 101, Campus Coin is in a location that allows patrons to stay entertained. Students can get food at Bruno’s Pizza or Penn Station, buy beer at 101 Bottles or browse DVDs at The Exchange. “It’s your basic Laundromat, and it’s really not as bad as it looks,” Hawkins said. In order to do laundry on cam- pus, students need a university laun- dry card. Laundry card machines are located at each residence desk and do not accept $1 bills. Washers in campus laundry rooms cost $2.50 per load and dry- ing is free. But even with free drying, students still find the cost of laundry pricey on campus. Kyle Little, sophomore pre-nurs- ing major, said she combines her washing with her roommate’s each week in order to save money. Chris Baldwin, junior theatre studies major, goes to more extreme measures to save money on laundry. “I’m a bit of a cheapskate. What I’ve been doing is I go to a Laundromat and I wash my clothes for less mon- ey, and then I throw them in my bag and dry them for free on campus. It probably only saves me 2 or 3 dollars a week, but what can you do?” For students who aren’t necessar- ily looking to save money but would like help with their laundry, there’s Laundry in a Flash. Run by the Cen- ter for Entrepreneurship and Busi- ness Innovation, the service allows students to sign up online to have their clothes washed for them. “It’s been a very successful program,” said Chris Lintner, junior entrepreneurship major and CEO of Laundry in a Flash. “We’re reaching revenue goals we never thought we would.” A semester (14 weeks) of laun- dry done through Laundry in a Flash costs $229 with prorated costs for those who sign up later in the semester. Students who sign up for the program receive a key to pick up and drop off their laundry at their assigned location as well as a 17-pound laundry bag, which is a little bit less than double what you would get in the machines at the dorms, Lintner said. Julie Sickel is a news corresspondent. New ambassador strives to impact students, university Budget concerns haults new hires Anna Staver [email protected]Daily Kent Stater Budget concerns led President Lester Lefton to announce a uni- versity-wide ban on new hires for Lefton establishes university-wide hiring freeze NIKOLAS KOLENICH | DAILY KENT STATER Benjamin Lentz pulls his clothes from the dryer at Laundry 101, located across from Pulp on state Route 59, on Monday. Laundry 101 is the only Laundromat in Kent with a full bar, pool tables and multiple big-screen TVs. for the new Vice president. “It will be an expensive hire,” Hassler said. “We think it’s eco- nomically viable because that posi- tion will generate more income.” The committee and the provost’s office petitioned for the hiring pro- cess to continue during the freeze. “We talked to them about it,” Frank said. “This is a key role and we were so far along in the search process that it made sense to keep going.” the foreseeable future. “As a preliminary step we had to move in this direction because we don’t know what is going to happen (in Columbus),” Lefton said to Faculty Senate. “As we know more we can review our poli- cies and make better decisions.” Lefton announced the hiring freeze at the end of the fall semes- ter in an e-mail to faculty and staff. In the e-mail and in his remarks to Faculty Senate yesterday, Lefton cited concerns over Ohio’s budget shortfall — currently projected to be between $8 billion and $10 bil- lion as one of the reasons for this freeze. He said another motivation for the preemptive measure was the uncertainty over Governor John Kasich’s new administration and what budget cuts will be made in higher education. “I wish I could say I had an inside track or crystal ball,” Lef- ton said to Faculty Senate yester- day about his ability to discern the new governor’s position on higher education funding. “We are facing a new normal, and business as usual cannot con- tinue,” Lefton said. The blanket ban on new hires does allow exceptions for what Lefton calls “mission-critical” hires. Shortly after the freeze was announced, Kent State revealed the new head football coach for the Golden Flashes. Lefton said at Faculty Senate that over the next year and a half he will also continue with plans to hire people to help professors who have questions or issues regarding distance-learning technologies. Currently, there is a search committee that is continuing in its efforts to hire a new vice president of Graduate Studies. Mack Hassler, faculty senate chair, said that in the days after the hiring freeze was announced, Provost Robert G. Frank contact- ed the Committee on Admin- istrative Officers to see what should be done about the search op and grow to engage the stu- dent in a mean- ingful way,” Thornton said. He said he has made both an internal and external impact on the university. His internal impact, he said, is that he uses “some of the experienc- es as a businessman and entrepre- neur to engage kids and faculty on very meaningful life experience.” To promote Kent State outside of the students and faculty, he said he really tries “to grow awareness on the benefits of Kent State and the opportunities it affords our young people.” THORNTON Disagreement spurs Frank’s departure Britni Williams [email protected]Daily Kent Stater After a heated conversa- tion, members of the Provost’s Office left the Faculty Senate meeting Monday. Provost Robert Frank, fol- lowed by other members of his office, left the meeting after a heated exchange with Faculty Senator Donald White over a policy that provides a pro- cedure to hire distinguished academic ranks — faculty with special recognition. Heated talks lead to Provost walk out Frank’s office rewrote the pro- posed University Policy and Pro- cedures Regarding Distinguished Academic Ranks that the Profes- sional Standards Committee sub- mitted previously. White said that most of the pro- posed policy had been changed. “There were 38 words out of a two and a half page document that were left unchanged,” White said. White also said the Provost’s Office was attempting to over- ride the committee’s ability to write policy. In response, Frank called White’s remarks “inappropriate.” After further intense exchange, Frank left with his staff. The discussion continued, but they made no decision regarding the policy. CHANGES TO CHEATING POLICY TABLED Faculty Senate members did not vote on a new cheating policy as previously planned. The policy was tabled because of a concern about faculty’s rights to apply sanctions. Vice Chair Linda Williams said the way the cheating and plagiarism policy stands now, students caught plagiarizing go through two channels: judicial affairs and academics. The proposed change would streamline this operation, Williams said. Under the proposed policy, Williams said, students would have to meet with an academic hearing board, which would consist of two faculty members and one student. The faculty members would ideally be from a sister discipline from the department in which the offense was committed. The student would be of the same academic standing, either an under- graduate or graduate student. Williams said the policy also adds another academic sanction. The three academic sanctions that are currently used are the stu- dent can redo the assignment, fails the assignment or fails the class based on the professor’s judgment. The new academic sanction would be “plagiarism school”, Wil- liams said. It is supposed to help students learn what plagiarism is , and why it’s important to not do it. This new option is intended for students who professors feel didn’t plagiarize on purpose. – Britni Williams
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Kent Laundromats offer alternatives to residence hall laundry machinesJulie [email protected]
Daily Kent Stater
For students whose moms don’t swing by Kent every week-end to pick up and drop off laun-dry, the task of getting clothes clean can be a daunting one. The more laundry stacks up, as it tends to do, the more money students can wind up spending.
Students both on and off campus have many different options around Kent to get their clothes clean.
One place to do laundry off campus is Laundry 101, located in the Acme plaza off state Route 59. Laundry 101 is affiliated with 101 Bottles and is Kent’s only Laundro-mat-bar combination.
“I can sit down and have a beer while I wait for my laundry,” said Marty Cook, sophomore pre-nurs-ing major. “I can walk to Acme or get some Chinese. Sheetz is right across the street. It’s just a great loca-tion. Laundry isn’t exactly the most entertaining thing.”
In addition to the in-house bar and snack area, Laundry 101 offers other entertainment like free Wi-Fi, pool tables, televisions and arcade games.
“The staff is great, and I love the quad loaders,” Cook said. “I usually put off laundry, and this way I can get most of my laundry in a couple loads instead of five or six.”
Last August, Andre “Thun-der” Thornton was named President Lester Lefton’s first ambassador for the 2010-2011 academic year. Halfway through his term, he said he feels he has made an impact.
“My goal was certainly to promote Kent State, to offer my support to the diversity pro-gram and talk about ways in which we can increase, devel-
LAUNDRY 101 Washers: $1.75 - $4.50 Dryers: 25 cents for 6 min. On Site Staff: Yes Wi-Fi: Yes Change Machine: accepts all bills Additional Services: Drop-off laundry service
Extra Amenities:Bar, snack area, study area, arcade games, pool tables, televisions, separate gender bathrooms, ATM
CAMPUS COINWashers: $1.25 Dryers: 25 cents for 8-15 min. On Site Staff: No Wi-Fi: No Change Machine: accepts only $1 bills Additional Services: None
Extra Amenities:Beverage vending machines, unisex bathroom, detergent available
ON CAMPUSWashers: $2.50 Dryers: Free On Site Staff: No Wi-Fi: Yes for most Laundry Card: can be refilled at residence desks Additional Services: Laundry in a Flash Extra Amenities:N/A
Getting clean in Kent
between $1.75 and $4.50 depending on the size of the machine, and dry-ers cost 25 cents for 6 minutes.
“(Laundry 101) is pricey, but that’s expected in a college area,” said Eric French, senior accounting and finance major. “I’ve never been in (Campus Coin Laundry) before; it just looks sketchy.”
Campus Coin Laundry is located just up the road from Laundry 101, off East Main Street in the Penn Sta-tion Plaza. Campus Coin is owned and managed by Bruno’s Authentic Pizza, which is in the same plaza.
“I like going (to Campus Coin) because it’s inexpensive, and I don’t see a lot of people when I’m here,” said Amy Hawkins, junior history major.
Washers cost $1.25, and a quarter will buy 8 to 15 minutes of drying time, depending on the dryer.
Campus Coin doesn’t have an on-site staff, but patrons can go to Bruno’s Pizza for assistance or dol-lar bills for the change machine.
Like Laundry 101, Campus Coin is in a location that allows patrons to stay entertained. Students can
get food at Bruno’s Pizza or Penn Station, buy beer at 101 Bottles or browse DVDs at The Exchange.
“It’s your basic Laundromat, and it’s really not as bad as it looks,” Hawkins said.
In order to do laundry on cam-pus, students need a university laun-dry card. Laundry card machines are located at each residence desk and do not accept $1 bills.
Washers in campus laundry rooms cost $2.50 per load and dry-ing is free. But even with free drying, students still find the cost of laundry pricey on campus.
Kyle Little, sophomore pre-nurs-ing major, said she combines her washing with her roommate’s each week in order to save money.
Chris Baldwin, junior theatre studies major, goes to more extreme measures to save money on laundry. “I’m a bit of a cheapskate. What I’ve been doing is I go to a Laundromat and I wash my clothes for less mon-ey, and then I throw them in my bag and dry them for free on campus. It probably only saves me 2 or 3 dollars
a week, but what can you do?” For students who aren’t necessar-
ily looking to save money but would like help with their laundry, there’s Laundry in a Flash. Run by the Cen-ter for Entrepreneurship and Busi-ness Innovation, the service allows students to sign up online to have their clothes washed for them.
“It’s been a very successful program,” said Chris Lintner, junior entrepreneurship major and CEO of Laundry in a Flash. “We’re reaching revenue goals we never thought we would.”
A semester (14 weeks) of laun-dry done through Laundry in a Flash costs $229 with prorated costs for those who sign up later in the semester. Students who sign up for the program receive a key to pick up and drop off their laundry at their assigned location as well as a 17-pound laundry bag, which is a little bit less than double what you would get in the machines at the dorms, Lintner said.
Julie Sickel is a news corresspondent.
New ambassador strives to impact students, university
Budget concerns led President Lester Lefton to announce a uni-versity-wide ban on new hires for
Lefton establishes university-wide hiring freeze
NIKOLAS KOLENICH | DAILY KENT STATERBenjamin Lentz pulls his clothes from the dryer at Laundry 101, located across from Pulp on state Route 59, on Monday. Laundry 101 is the only Laundromat in Kent with a full bar, pool tables and multiple big-screen TVs.
for the new Vice president.“It will be an expensive hire,”
Hassler said. “We think it’s eco-nomically viable because that posi-tion will generate more income.”
The committee and the provost’s office petitioned for the hiring pro-cess to continue during the freeze.
“We talked to them about it,” Frank said. “This is a key role and we were so far along in the search process that it made sense to keep going.”
the foreseeable future.“As a preliminary step we had
to move in this direction because we don’t know what is going to happen (in Columbus),” Lefton said to Faculty Senate. “As we know more we can review our poli-cies and make better decisions.”
Lefton announced the hiring freeze at the end of the fall semes-ter in an e-mail to faculty and staff. In the e-mail and in his remarks to Faculty Senate yesterday, Lefton cited concerns over Ohio’s budget
shortfall — currently projected to be between $8 billion and $10 bil-lion as one of the reasons for this freeze. He said another motivation for the preemptive measure was the uncertainty over Governor John Kasich’s new administration and what budget cuts will be made in higher education.
“I wish I could say I had an inside track or crystal ball,” Lef-ton said to Faculty Senate yester-day about his ability to discern the new governor’s position on higher
education funding.“We are facing a new normal,
and business as usual cannot con-tinue,” Lefton said.
The blanket ban on new hires does allow exceptions for what Lefton calls “mission-critical” hires. Shortly after the freeze was announced, Kent State revealed the new head football coach for the Golden Flashes.
Lefton said at Faculty Senate that over the next year and a half he will also continue with plans to
hire people to help professors who have questions or issues regarding distance-learning technologies.
Currently, there is a search committee that is continuing in its efforts to hire a new vice president of Graduate Studies.
Mack Hassler, faculty senate chair, said that in the days after the hiring freeze was announced, Provost Robert G. Frank contact-ed the Committee on Admin-istrative Officers to see what should be done about the search
op and grow to engage the stu-dent in a mean-i n g f u l w a y, ” Thornton said.
He said he has made both an internal and external impact on the university.
His internal impact, he said, is that he uses “some of the experienc-es as a businessman and entrepre-neur to engage kids and faculty on very meaningful life experience.”
To promote Kent State outside of the students and faculty, he said he really tries “to grow awareness on the benefits of Kent State and the opportunities it affords our young people.”
After a heated conversa-tion, members of the Provost’s Office left the Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Provost Robert Frank, fol-lowed by other members of his office, left the meeting after a heated exchange with Faculty Senator Donald White over a policy that provides a pro-cedure to hire distinguished academic ranks — faculty with special recognition.
Heated talks leadto Provost walk out
Frank’s office rewrote the pro-posed University Policy and Pro-cedures Regarding Distinguished Academic Ranks that the Profes-sional Standards Committee sub-mitted previously.
White said that most of the pro-posed policy had been changed.
“There were 38 words out of a two and a half page document that were left unchanged,” White said.
White also said the Provost’s Office was attempting to over-ride the committee’s ability to write policy.
In response, Frank called White’s remarks “inappropriate.” After further intense exchange, Frank left with his staff.
The discussion continued, but they made no decis ion regarding the policy.
CHANGES TO CHEATING POLICY TABLEDFaculty Senate members did not vote on a new cheating policy
as previously planned. The policy was tabled because of a concern about faculty’s rights to apply sanctions.
Vice Chair Linda Williams said the way the cheating and plagiarism policy stands now, students caught plagiarizing go through two channels: judicial affairs and academics.
The proposed change would streamline this operation, Williams said.
Under the proposed policy, Williams said, students would have to meet with an academic hearing board, which would consist of two faculty members and one student. The faculty members would ideally be from a sister discipline from the department in which the offense was committed. The student would be of the same academic standing, either an under-graduate or graduate student.
Williams said the policy also adds another academic sanction. The three academic sanctions that are currently used are the stu-dent can redo the assignment, fails the assignment or fails the class based on the professor’s judgment.
The new academic sanction would be “plagiarism school”, Wil-liams said. It is supposed to help students learn what plagiarism is , and why it’s important to not do it. This new option is intended for students who professors feel didn’t plagiarize on purpose.
– Britni Williams
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FILE PHOTO BY RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATERCars tread carefully on Main Street as the snow falls in early December. Many students’ travel plans were postponed or canceled due to snowstorms over winter break.
Students prevented from returning home due to bad weatherAmanda [email protected]
Daily Kent Stater
Many students were ready for break from the stress they endured through-out last semester. The only things left for them to do were to take their final exams. But the weather that soon appeared put a halt to many student and faculty plans.
Last semester, school was canceled for the first time in at least 30 years during finals week (as far back as could be found on record), said Greg Jarvie, vice president for Enrollment Manage-ment and Student Affairs.
A total of 22 inches of snow fell on Dec. 13 and 14, according to the National Weather Service. Exams on those days were pushed to the follow-ing week on Dec. 20 and 21.
Many professors were very accom-modating to students and did what they could to give students a chance to make up their final without it interfer-ing with their plans. However, some students did not have that benefit.
Samantha Tallon, sophomore fash-ion design major, had to spend many days on campus waiting to take her postponed exam.
“My professor didn’t offer any alter-natives for a makeup exam,” Tallon wrote in an e-mail. “In fact, he didn’t
even communicate through e-mail what would happen after exams were canceled. This caused quite a bit of confusion among the 150-plus students in the class.”
The inconvenience of schedul-ing finals affected professors as well. Biology professor Gail C. Fraizer had to cancel her holiday trip due to the rescheduling.
“Our trip to Florida was canceled as we expected grades could not be compiled till Dec. 26 (and would have missed our window for the trip),” Fraizer wrote in an e-mail.
Fraizer said she e-mailed all 150 stu-dents and determined that most could fit in their makeup exams on Thursday. “But it required a rolling exam sched-ule with myself and proctors in the room from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.”
Other professors were willing to work around students’ schedules in their own way.
Richard Mangrum, assistant flight training professor, understood the students had obligations with work or family and did his best to reschedule his exams.
Mangrum allowed his students to take one-on-one exams in his office. His students were also able to take their exams on Vista, and a few students waited for the rescheduled time.
Sociology professor Timothy J. Owens made his students’ final the average of their three best quizzes and added ten points.
A snow advisory was put in place for Monday, advising that if students didn’t have to be out driving, they shouldn’t be.
“When inclimate weather is occur-
Finals week snowstorm disrupted holiday plans
Icy roads prove unsafe for faculty and studentsMaura [email protected]
Daily Kent Stater
Winter weather conditions can make driving to campus and walking to classes dangerous for students and faculty.
Chris Kowalski, sophomore accounting major, said the winter conditions were certainly hazard-ous for him on Dec. 5 when he fell.
“I was walking on a small paved hill by the side of Van Deu-sen Hall that leads down into the Art Building’s rear parking lot,” Kowalski said. “I slipped on ice and slid down the hill about five feet on my right leg, breaking both my tibia and fibula in the process.”
Parking Services and Campus Environment and Operations will keep trying to make the parking lots, sidewalks and some roads leading to campus safer for stu-
dents and faculty by continuing to plow and pile snow.
Larry Emling, manager of Parking Services, said that Park-ing Services doesn’t guarantee that campus walkways and park-ing lots will not be slippery.
Parking Services is respon-sible for only the parking lots on campus. They hire contractors from a company, Naragon, to pile and plow snow in the lots, but they are not responsible for salting the lots. Emling said that they usually have 15 or 20 snow vehicles clearing the lots.
Campus Environment and Operations parking maintenance is in charge of salting the drive isles in the parking lots. Parking maintenance also salts the area around each emergency phones on campus and helps to dig stu-dents’ cars out of snow.
Heather White, manager of Campus Environment and Opera-tions, said, “Sometimes it’s really hard to keep up with the winter conditions. We have two full-time and two part-time staff members and we have to make sure the lots, sidewalks and some campus roads are clear. We are going to keep try-ing our hardest to clear the snow
and ice. We are also going to be available more on the weekends.”
The rock salt used to salt most of campus will not be effective if it is lower than 17 degrees outside. Campus Environment and Opera-tions uses Magic-O, a form of salt that can eliminate black ice but it is very expensive, White said.
“Last semester, we had at least one person working all day,” White said. “One week we had two employees put in 25 hours of overtime each. I want people to be aware that we are out there work-ing and we have people shoveling eight hours a day.”
Emling said students and fac-ulty should wear appropriate shoes and boots during the win-ter months.
Kowalski had his own sug-gestions about how Kent State could keep the sidewalks safer this semester.
“I feel as though some pre-vention could have come from more lighting that covers every walkway on campus and bet-ter salting in a timely fashion,” Kowalski said.
Maura Zurick is the safety reporter.
Winter weather creates hazardous conditions throughout campus
ring, the number one factor the university has is obviously safety of the students that are traveling in, and the faculty and staff,” Jarvie said. “We realize we have students that come in from quite a distance, so that’s the number one indicator.”
Jarvie said it is ultimately Gregg Floyd, vice president of Finance and Administration, that officially makes the deci-sion to close the university, but he has several other staff mem-bers’ input helping him make that decision, including Jarvie.
Police and state troopers kept them up to date with weather reports.
Jarvie said he thinks they definitely made the right deci-sion to close the university dur-ing finals week.
“The bottom line is, if someone
got hurt, or even worse, killed, is it worth forcing people to come in for finals?” Jarvie said.
Jarvie said they understand and apologize for the inconve-nience this may have caused. “But we cannot take into con-sideration and worry about a student missing a flight to vaca-tion, versus possibly someone getting hurt coming to cam-pus,” he said.
Officials try and make the decision early to notify as many people as they can.
“This is not about worrying about someone going on vaca-tion. This is worrying about the safety of everybody,” he said.
Amanda Crumm is a news correspondent.
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SUMMARY: Faculty Senate needs to vote soon on the proposed new cheating policy to have a more fair learning environment.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 | Page 3Daily Kent Stater
Yesterday, Faculty Senate postponed the vote on the administrative policy regarding cheating and plagiarism.
If passed, the new policy will streamline the consequences students face for cheating and will more efficiently punish repeat offenders.
We hope the Senate does not push this back any further and votes to pass the reform.
It is infuriating to know that students can receive the same degree by cheating their way through courses, when others may retake a class several times until they can fairly pass it.
It is completely unjust, especially consider-ing we are all adults and should have enough morals to know better.
But because some don’t have such a sense
DREW SHENEMAN’S VIEW
of right and wrong, the university needs to choose a policy that will best catch and pun-ish cheaters.
As the policy works now, if a student cheats in a math class, a science class and an English class, there is no documentation of the repeat offenses. Under the new reform, paperwork will be filed for each offense to allow the university to see patterns and take action.
Students shouldn’t be able to slide under the radar by pulling the same stunt in each class. It is conniving and childish. People need to stop using cheating as a crutch. There aren’t tests in the job market for you to look at over your coworker’s shoulder.
It cheapens the entire educational experi-ence to have students who spend countless hours studying and preparing for their tests receive the same grade as someone who has done nothing to learn.
We are paying to get an education here. It is a waste if you are skirting around actually gaining any knowledge from your time here.
Please, Faculty Senate, level the playing field and make this fair for all students. Pass the reform at your next meeting.
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A world without ChristianityDear Editor,Recently I was walking to one of my class-
es at Kent State University when I saw a PAR-TA bus with a sign proclaiming, “Imagine a World Without Religion.” As I walked up the hill, I did start to imagine a world without religion. Since I am a Christian, I particularly thought of a world without Christianity.
I imagined a world that was very primi-tive, since Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175-1253), a Franciscan bishop and first chancellor of Oxford, first proposed the inductive scien-tific method. After that, little matters since that method is the basis of all true scientific discoveries. But we could mention another Franciscan monk, William of Ockham, 1280-1349, who contributed a principle that we now call “Ockham’s razor,” which is often stated as, “the simplest explanation is usu-ally correct.” God in his complexity is also ultimate simplicity, so it follows that the cre-ator God would leave a rather simple world as evidence of his creative power and genius.
That is not to mention Copernicus, who
stated what is implicit in the Bible: namely, a heliocentric model of the galaxy. Galileo, who first used a telescope; Blaise Pascal, who pioneered the science of probability; Johannes Kepler who coined the phrase “Thinking God’s thoughts after Him,” who studied nature in order to uncover the laws of God; Isaac Newton, who discovered the law of gravity and invented calculus.
I imagined a world starving because Gregor Mendel, a monk from Moravia who is considered the father of genetics, did not make his discoveries in that field. Without his discoveries, millions would be starving with-out the selective breeding of cattle, the genetic improvements on crops like rice and so on.
I imagined a world full of people dying of diseases we now know are preventable thanks to Louis Pasteur, whose research led to the processes of pasteurization and steril-ization and numerous vaccines.
Remember George Washington Carv-er? His research in peanuts led to over 300 byproducts — can anybody say “peanut but-
Flashes fate
Jody Michael
When I was younger, I would watch the college football bowl games on television and imag-ine a day in the near future when Kent State would be in one. I’ve lived in Portage County my entire life, so Kent State has always been my local team. Now that the Flashes have gone 38 years with-out a bowl invitation, I don’t even consider it anymore.
On Dec. 20, Kent State hired Darrell Hazell to be its new head football coach. Hazell said in his introductory press confer-ence that he wants the team to be known for winning instead of los-ing. Winning seasons would put the Flashes in nationally televised bowl games, which leads to more exposure and possibly getting better recruits.
Having said that, the more I learn about how the NCAA’s bowl system works, the less I want to see Kent State fall into its scam. Let’s imagine a future with a Flashes bowl game, shall we?
Let’s face it; our football team won’t be in a glamorous, high pro-file bowl game anytime soon. Our conference’s affiliated bowls are in less-attractive locations like Detroit, Boise, Idaho, and Mobile, Ala.
When a team accepts a bowl game invitation, the bowl typi-cally requires the team to pur-chase about 10,000 tickets that the school can then sell to students, families and other fans.
Kent State did average 15,000 fans at its home football games this season, but the number who would be able and willing to go to a bowl game in Boise, Idaho, or Mobile, Ala., would undoubtedly be lower.
Why? For one thing, the bowl selections don’t come until two weeks before the end of the fall semester, when most students already have travel and flight plans for winter break. Plus, stu-dents wouldn’t get in for free. If you went to a game this year, you probably noticed about half of the student section would leave the game at halftime, so I wouldn’t count on them shelling out a few hundred bucks for a bowl game.
Not only would the athletic department almost certainly lose money on tickets, it would also have to add travel and lodging costs for the team, meaning an even bigger loss.
The schools receive some of the bowl game’s revenue but nowhere near all of it. Oftentimes, the bowls keep more than half
the revenue for themselves. We can’t expect bowl revenues to cover the aforementioned losses, especially if attendance is meager.
How do I know a Kent State bowl game would have such negative effects? Well, Sports Illustrated recently reported on college football’s postseason profiteering, and this is exactly what happened to fellow Mid-American Conference school Western Michigan University.
In 2008, the Broncos played in the Texas Bowl , which required the athletic depart-ment to purchase 11,000 tick-ets for the game in Houston. It sold just 548 of those tickets, resulting in a $462,535 loss, which doesn’t even include travel and lodging.
That’s no fluke. Last sea-son, Ohio State received only $2.2 million of more than $37 million in total revenue from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. That didn’t even cover team expenditures and unsold tick-ets, which meant a $75,597 loss. In 2009, Virginia Tech only sold 3,342 of its 17,500 tickets to the Orange Bowl in Miami, and the school lost $1.77 million.
If our athletic department loses money on the bowl game, it will need to make up for that loss somehow. We shouldn’t expect the university to cut spending to account for the loss when it can just increase tuition.
If going to a bowl game means losing hundreds of thousands of dollars when our university already faces huge deficits, I don’t think it’s worth going.
That’s not the fault of Hazell or anyone in the athletic depart-ment. The NCAA is responsible for this and needs to undergo major bowl reform, including a playoff system that actually makes bowl games financially beneficial for colleges.
Until then, I wish Coach Hazell the best of luck in con-tinuing the Flashes’ tradition of five-win football seasons.
Jody Michael is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and
columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. You can contact him at
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
— George Bernard Shaw
On Jan. 11, 1908, U.S. President Theo-dore Roosevelt declares the massive Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona a national monument.
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ter”? — and on sweet potatoes led to over 100 byproducts. His 1939 Roosevelt Medal award read, in part, “To a scientist humbly seeking the guidance of God. . . .”
Imagine a world without those famous first responders to disaster, the Red Cross, since a Christian named Henry Dunant founded it. There would be no nurses either, since Flor-ence Nightingale was no doubt moved by the compassion of her Christian faith.
Imagine all the homeless and hungry that would not be fed and housed by the Salvation Army, as well as the many local homeless shel-ters, many of which are church-sponsored.
I imagined a world where human life had little to no value, since Christianity has valued all human life from conception to natural death.
— Pastor Kent G. Wartick
For the full version of this letter to the editor, refer to KentWired.com.
When most Americans hear the words “public lands”, they think of our national parks or national forests or perhaps even our national wildlife refuges. Yet, what might surprise them is that the largest category of our publicly owned land is administered by a little-known agency, the Bureau of Land Management, with a big mandate — taking care of 400,000 square miles, an area nearly four times the size of Colorado, on behalf of all Americans.
These sweeping lands stretch across 12 states including Alaska, and though relatively unknown compared to parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rushmore or the Grand Can-yon, their very vastness represents a resource of enormous importance to us — a diverse trove of wild treasures. Happy Canyon in the archeologically rich lands near Canyonlands National Park in Utah is such a place. So too are the towering sequoias in the Milk Ranch/Case Mountains of California or the desert of Otero Mesa in southern New Mexico, which stretches from horizon to horizon.
Forty years ago, a blue ribbon commission studied these lands and found some spots so magnificent they could be national parks, national monuments or wilderness areas. Yet, the study also noted a serious problem: much of this terrain had never been examined to formally determine opportunities for con-servation. The commission recommended, “a comprehensive inventory of these public
lands, to identify all such areas ... and they should be assigned a priority for protection” until lasting conservation decisions could be made by Congress.
Four decades later, this work is only now just beginning to safeguard what is left.
On Dec. 23, Americans received a wonder-ful holiday present when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, along with BLM Director Bob Abbey, issued a historic directive that reaf-firms the ability of the BLM to determine if there are public lands with wilderness char-acteristics, including ecological, scenic, recre-ational, educational and scientific values. The bureau is to make this scientific assessment and planning analysis available to the Amer-ican people, who will then have the oppor-tunity to become involved in the process by which decisions are made affecting lands all of us own. Because it’s so important for us to participate, and for our country to protect wilderness areas for future generations of Americans, this order was designated “high priority” and the secretary told the BLM to report back to him by the end of June.
Hardly typical of such legal documents, Salazar’s order includes inspirational phrases explaining that these lands with wilderness characteristics “provide visitors with rare
opportunities for solitude and personal reflec-tion,” noting that “many people and com-munities value these lands for hunting and fishing, observing wildlife, hiking, and other non-motorized and non-mechanized recre-ational uses.”
The order further stresses: “Managing an area to protect its wilderness characteristics provides unique opportunities and benefits for present and future generations that may otherwise be irreparably lost.” This new policy is a win for the public at large, for our leaders and for local residents. It means that, from on-the-ground planning that engages people in nearby communities, all the way to the halls of Congress, everyone will have better infor-mation to make improved decisions about the fate of the wild places. Now the public can take into proper consideration all the resource val-ues at stake, including the option of preserving some wonderful new wilderness areas.
Now it is incumbent upon us as Americans to carry the torch, and make sure our children can enjoy the clean water, scenic views and recreational activities just as we have had the opportunity to do. The revised approach to the largest segment of our public lands will give us that chance.
Mike Matz is the director of the Pew Cam-paign for America’s Wilderness.
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POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of charges
filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off cam-pus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.
CITYMONDAYn Joshua M. Houser, 21, of Ridgeville was arrested for drunken driving and carrying a concealed weapon at the 1300 block of Theatre Drive. n Jacob M. Lepoidevin, 26, of Tall-madge was arrested for disorderly conduct at Chestnut-Grove.
SATURDAYn Donley B. Stretch, 20, of Oakdale, Pa., was arrested for underage drinking at the 300 block of East Summit Street. n Jacob H. Stein, 19, of Oakdale, Pa., was arrested for underage drinking at the 300 block of East Summit Street. n Cory J. Culligan, 23, of Hudson, was arrested for drunken driving at the intersection of Cuyahoga Street and Randall Drive. n Leonard J. Armstrong, 48, of Ravenna was arrested for petty theft and pos-session of drug paraphernalia at the 1200 block of Anita Drive. n Noel C. Everett, 38, was arrested for petty theft at the 800 block of Silver Meadows Drive.
Hassler said he expected that the only exceptions to the hiring freeze would be important leaders at the top who are expected to gen-erate more money than cost.
He said he didn’t think that Lefton’s freeze would have a very noticeable effect on stu-dents or faculty.
“It doesn’t mean the work stops when there are vacancies,” Hassler said. “It just means some people will work harder.”
Most of the faculty that Has-sler said he spoke to told him they were comfortable with the presi-dent’s decision. He said people understood that the economic future of the university is a little bit up in the air at the moment.
The process for applying to hire a new faculty member hasn’t changed because departments already have to request permis-sion from their deans, who in turn request permission from the pro-vost’s office, Hassler said.
“The freeze just announces ahead of time that the answer is going to be no,” Hassler said. “It’s the kind of general ‘no’ answer that should be expected during these economic times.”
Thornton has spoken at five Kent State events over the past semester, most recently at fall com-mencement last month, Fashaad Crawford, the assistant vice presi-dent for strategic planning, assess-ment and research management, wrote in an e-mail.
Crawford said the newly created ambassador position is part of the Division of Diver-sity, Equity and Inclusion. Its purpose is to showcase local, distinguished minorities and to share their professional knowl-edge and experience with Kent State students and faculty.
In addition to working part-time as ambassador, Thornton has continued as president and
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AMBASSADORNew ambassador strives to impact students, university
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PROVOSTHeated talks lead to Provost walk out
Senate Chair Mack Hassler conducted the conversation in the absence of Frank.
“It is unfortunate that the Provost hasn’t remained to hear this discussion,” Hassler said.
The committee completed the first ver-sion of the policy in February 2010 said Deborah Smith, chair of the Professional Standards Committee.
“Our Professional Standards Commit-tee has worked at some length to draft policy language on the appointments of distinguished ranks,” Hassler said. “We have had some differences with the Pro-vost over language.”
The Provost and the Faculty Senate had another tense discussion over a sepa-rate policy in November 2010 concerning the hiring of an associate provost.
Britni Williams is the academics reporter.
CEO of ASW Global in Mogadore, which is one of the largest minor-ity-owned businesses in Ohio. Crawford cites this experience as one of the unique qualities that Thornton is able to bring.
“He has over 20 years of expe-rience in entrepreneurial ven-tures,” Crawford said. “He also has exceptional leadership skills and a passionate commitment to diversity and inclusion.”
Not all students have heard of Thornton, however, but some say they welcome the idea of an ambas-sador for diversity.
Jackson McGreevy, a junior aero-nautics major, said the ambassa-dor’s job seems like a necessary one.
“Kent is very diverse,” he said. “We obviously have a lot of inter-national students here.” This spring, Thornton has tentative plans to meet with KSU student athletes, give a keynote speech at the Minor-ity Leadership Conference and con-
tinue to speak at any alumni and diversity events on campus.
But Thornton said the job isn’t about simply scheduling events.
“I’ve enjoyed the job, but I don’t consider it a job,” Thornton said. “It’s an opportunity to engage each other in a meaningful way. How can majority and minority students be better prepared?”
He said this question—and, thus, his ambassadorship—is important because as a university, you are continually growing.
The application process for Thornton’s successor begins this spring and, by the end of the semes-ter, an ad hoc committee will choose a candidate nominated by letters of recommendation.
Thornton would not be eligi-ble for a second term for at least five years.
Daniel Moore is the diversity reporter.
EDDIE OLSCHANSKY | DAILY KENT STATERStudents, faculty, family members and friends of Alexander Stebbins, former Kent State student and Tau Kappa Epsilon member, gather around the rock on front campus for a candlelight vigil on Monday. Stebbins died on Dec. 26.
REMEMBERING ALEXANDER STEBBINS
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A light blue building inconspicuously sits on Lake Street, only the sign that reads “Downpour Creative” just above the door gives any indication of the torrent of art being produced inside.
Two Kent State alumni, David Wilson and Gabe Swarts, opened the dual design and recording studio in December 2010. Wilson, who gradu-ated in 2009 as a visual communication design major, runs the design side under the Downpour Creative name, and Swarts runs his recording studio, Engine Room Recording.
Wilson, 26, and Swarts, 30, met through the local music scene. Wilson has been in a band since he was 15 years old, and in 2005, Swarts joined Wilson’s metal band that now goes by the name Dog Days. That band is the reason Swarts started recording music in the first place.
“Honestly, this all came out of wanting to do everything ourselves
Kent State alumni create downpour of art, musicfor our band,” Swarts said.
Now, the duo is working toward having an accessible studio demanded by local bands. Ide-ally, Swarts would record and mix the album, and Wilson would design the album art for every band to come into the studio.
“We want to do stuff for the local Kent scene, and we want it to be cheap, and we want it to be good,” Swarts said.
And they are both adamant about it being very good.
“It’s not like a factory house where it’s like, ‘We can do it all,’” Wilson said. He doesn’t try to produce music, and Swarts doesn’t try to do design. They both do their own thing, and they both do it well.
Although there’s a recording studio in his building, Wilson’s projects aren’t solely album artwork.
He is currently designing the second issue of his “zine,” All Teeth, producing a rap video for a local musician, illustrating a graphic nov-el for a friend and finding as many other jobs as possible while working another full-time job at the Kent State Ice Arena.
“I’m full time (at the Ice Arena), and I try to be full time here,” Wilson said. “Hopefully, as time goes on, things will progress to more jobs and more jobs and more jobs, and I can cut back hours there and finally just make a switch.”
Swarts, on the other hand, enjoys having his teaching job in the day then coming to the studio at night.
“It’s so hard to make a living doing record-ing now, I just don’t think there would ever
be a high demand for me to quit (teaching),” Swarts said.
After graduating with a master’s degree in history in 2006, Swarts got a job at Hudson High School. He says it’s the perfect job for him because he always has evenings, breaks and summers off to work at the studio and travel with the band.
“I love my job teaching, but the benefits were there from the beginning,” Swarts said.
It isn’t always easy finding jobs, but Wilson does everything he can to work toward the goal of only working in design. He uses his website to try to pull in some clients, he actively searches for jobs, and he relies on the relationships he has made to bring some work as well.
“I don’t think there’s a formula to finding jobs. Half luck, half hard work,” Wilson said. “I think one of the hardest things for me is try-ing to convince people they need good design. People think they can do it on Word and stuff like that, and it’s like, ‘Well, yeah, it’s done, but it doesn’t mean it’s effective.’”
Wilson said his favorite kind of project is anything with a concept.
“I like being at the beginning stages of design and being able to talk to the client about kind of like an art direction thing. The worst jobs are ‘Here, we need a Photoshop monkey,’” Wilson said.
Wilson said he dreams of working at MTV, HBO, Showtime, ESPN The Magazine, The New Yorker or any place he thinks “allows creativity to flow.” And he wants to do it all, from illustrating to designing intro credits for
television shows. “It could be a detriment, but my mind is all
over the place. I want to do video, film, posters, screen-printing, illustrations, design,” Wilson said.
Wilson admits that he can’t be the best at every art discipline, so that’s where his friends come into play.
“For me, it’s kind of the idea sells the prod-uct, and then you get people on board who are in with the idea or what you want to do, and you make it happen.”
You don’t have to look far to find someone who sings Wilson’s praises. In fact, you only have to look down the hall of the studio.
“He’s amazingly talented,” Swarts said. “I’m OK, but he’s there.”
The overall goal at Downpour Creative is to create a space where locals can come for good, affordable design and music production.
“We’re trying to record our friends and other bands we play with and give them opportuni-ties for good recording and design,” Swarts said.
Wilson and Swarts make those opportuni-ties for others by spending all their free time in the studio. They both come straight from work to the studio, and Wilson said the only time he’s not there is when he’s sleeping or working at the Ice Arena.
To some, all the time spent doing their jobs may seem excessive or even insane, but Wilson said, “I think you have to be insane to be good at what you do.”
Nicole Aikens is the assistant features editor.
PHOTOS BY EDDIE OLSCHANSKY | DAILY KENT STATER David Wilson, Kent State alumnus proudly displays a small gift given to him by a family friend on his first official day of business at his new design studio, Downpour Creative. Wilson keeps this “success” magnet on his desk hoping it sets the tone for his first year in business.
Gabe Swarts, Kent State alumnus, opened Engine Room Recording, a recording studio in downtown Kent on Lake Street. Swarts shares his workspace with the singer of his band Dog Days, David Wilson.
In December, David Wilson, Kent State alumnus, opened his own design studio in downtown Kent on Lake Street where he is working on various projects including a graphic novel, T-shirts and band-related artwork. He shares his building with band mate and friend Gabe Swarts.
Being a badass is something that Anil Kumar has wanted to be, but it is something he needed for his role.
The Kent State alumnus is acting in the NBC drama “The Cape.” The pre-miere was Sunday at 9 p.m., but its nor-mal time slot will be Mondays at 9 p.m.
The show is about a good cop who was framed for a lot of the corruption in the city. He fakes his own death to come
back to his family as his son’s favorite comic book character, The Cape.
“It’s (the show) about him trying to get back to his family and have this new persona,” Kumar said.
Kumar’s role is shown at the Carni-val of Crime, where his character, Ruvi, is an undercover bank robber. The cop is introduced to the Carnival of Crime in the pilot episode.
“We teach him a skill in conjunction with The Cape,” Kumar said. He said The Cape doesn’t have any superpow-ers in the show, just heightened skills.
Kent State alumnus stars in new NBC drama “The Cape”“We’re good/bad guys,” Kumar said.The Carnival of Crime welcomes
the cop, but Kumar’s character, Ruvi, is the most unwilling mentor of the group. In the pilot, Ruvi is standoffish to the cop at first, but messes around with him a little to get comfortable.
“Ruvi is very dangerous,” Kumar said. “He is much more badder-ass than I could be.”
Kumar is thankful for the opportu-nity NBC gave him. He said the show wouldn’t have been possible without the great production team.
“They’re so talented and really good at what they do,” he said.
Kumar works with actors David Lyons, James Frain, Jennifer Ferrin, Keith David and Summer Glau.
Kumar was a psychology major when he attended Kent State, but he also took a lot of literature classes.
“I became inspired to act from my Shakespeare class,” Kumar said. He said he made every mistake an actor could make but was cast in “The Tem-pest” as a member of the chorus.
After graduating from Kent State in 1992, he took a year off to see family in India and then went to the Profes-sional Actor Training Program at Rut-gers University.
Kumar said he misses the people who influenced him the most at Kent, but he doesn’t miss having to shovel snow in Ohio.
Kaylee Reminton is a
features correspondent.
Anil Kumar cites influence of Kent State education on badass acting career
