Brown and White Vol. 114 No. 13

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 114 no 13 tuesday october 24 2006 ah the lehigh news first plagiarism cheating incidents recurrent by lauren rieders assistant news editor plagiarism became national news this spring harvard university sophomore kaavya viswanathan author of how opal mehta got kissed got wild and got a life - a fictional novel about high school senior opal mehta's life-long quest for admission to harvard — copied parts of her novel from author megan mccafferty's novels sloppy firsts and second helpings publishing company little brown recalled the novel from bookstores viswanathan apologized and issued a statement that said her mistake was unintentional and unconscious robert mitchell director of communications for faculty of arts and sciences at harvard told the new york times that harvard takes plagiarism seriously our policies apply to work submitted to courses mitchell said nevertheless we expect harvard students to conduct themselves with integrity and honesty at all times yet even though her book was recalled a deal for a sec ond opal mehta novel was called off and dream works canceled its plan to make an opal mehta movie har vard welcomed viswanathan to return this semester cheating at lehigh according to chris mulvihill assistant dean of students plagiarism incidents like viswanathan's occur at lehigh mulvihill said plagiarism is one of the most common forms of academic dishonesty on campus cheating on ex ams and collusion cases are also common he said how ever the number of collusion cases has decreased because professors make it clear they will report incidents where students work too closely together on assignments the university handles between 20 and 35 cases of academic dishonesty every year during the 2005-2006 academic year 26 cases were adjudicated mulvihill said the number of cases the committee handled this past year is close to the number of academic honesty cases the year before mulvihill said don mccabe of rutgers university founder of the center for academic integrity at duke uni versity has researched incidents of academic dishonesty on college campuses mccabe conducted a nationwide survey with the center for academic integrity from fall 2002 to june of 2005 he polled 50,000 undergraduates from more than 60 campuses according to mccabe's study 70 percent of college students admit to cheating he also found that 44 percent of more than 10,000 fac ulty members of universities were aware of students cheat ing in their courses but did not report the incidents mulvihill said he thinks faculty members do not report all incidents of cheating that occur he said some professors don't like the way the system works some don't think they have enough evidence and some don't have enough time when a student accused of violating the code of con duct is found responsible a sanction is issued of the 26 cases last year nine cases resulted in a disciplinary warning and nine resulted in disciplinary probation one student was suspended and one was expelled six of the students held responsible for cheating also re ceived an f in the course the other cases are still being adjudicated if a student accused of cheating is found responsible the sanction is recorded in the student's disciplinary record not on the student's transcript the transcript will only reflect a sanction when a student receives an f in the course but lehigh celebrates founder's day b&wphoto by blair silver faculty and students gathered in packer memorial church friday for a ceremony in honor of faculty and students who exemplify the vision of founder asa packer president alice gast delivered the keynote address u.n to discuss regulating internet by whitney ryan news writer the united nations will hold a conference at the end of this month to discuss the possibility of the united na tions regulating and governing internet activities and the use of the internet in developing countries a u.n represen tative said in a lecture wednesday edoardo bellando a representative from the united nations department of information said a meeting titled in ternet governance for development will take place at the end of this month in athens greece governments corporations non-profit groups and the internet community will discuss the future of the internet bellando said the press has misled americans into believing the united nations wants to completely control the internet representatives at the meeting will discuss whether the internet should be subject to some u.n oversight the key word here is oversight bellando said it wouldn't be control no one can control the internet that's like saying the u.n is trying to control the pentagon it's just not possible hiv event promotes awareness by emily iwan news writer half of all new hiv infections in the united states occur in people under the age of 25 and one fourth in people under 21 said tom donohue who's positive director along with three other hiv positive youth these speakers are on a 48-day nationwide who's positive bus tour traveling from new york to california to hu manize hiv the bus tour will stop at 35 high schools and colleges in 25 states presenting personal stories about aids a main goal of this tour is to humanize aids donohue said three hiv positive young adults shared their per sonal stories and facts about hiv during the event aids is such a serious disease and we're all mis informed about it so i think it's good for the lehigh community to be more open to discuss it said kath erine rumbaugh 09 of gamma phi beta sorority one of the co-sponsors of the event the first speaker was marissa smith a 19-year-old hiv positive woman infected as a newborn through breast-feeding from her hiv-infected mother smith said she was diagnosed with hiv when she was 8 years old she said this made the parents of her class mates very nervous smith said she was teased for having hiv throughout school but learned to stand up for herself if you want to make fun of me i can point see cheating page 2 see hiv page 2 see internet page 4 students men's soccer team philip roth society divided over clinches home field founder discusses war in iraq advantage roth's work page 5 page 12 bw.lehigh.edu