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October 13, 2010
Campus
The Rambler ! www.therarnbler.org
nvisible C hildren movement visits Wesleyan
Melissa Bates
mdbates@mail. txwes. edu
Junior English major Re-
becca Moore discovered the
Invisible Children movement
when she was a junior in high
school, and it inspired her to
become an activist.
The Invisible Children
organization started seven
years ago when three South-
ern California college stu-
dents went to Africa and
found that hundreds of chil-
dren were left home every
night to evade being abduct-
ed and forcibly enlisted into
the Lords Resistance Army
according to the Invisible
Children website.
The Invisible Children's
mission statement is to use
film, creativity and social ac-
tion to end the use of child
soldiers in Joseph Kony's reb-
el war and restore Northern
Uganda to peace and pros-
perity.
"Invisible Children is
working to end the longest
running conflict in Africa,"
said Rebecca Cassinari, road-
ie with Invisible Children.
"Joseph Kony started a civil
war trying to overthrow the
Ugandan government 24
years ago."
Kony has troops occupying
the Democratic Republic of
Congo, the Central African
Republic and Southern Su-
dan, Cassinari said.
"Kony terrorizes villages
and abducts their children to
use as guerrilla soldiers in his
war," she said.
In May, President Barack
Obama signed the LRA Dis-
armament and Northern
Uganda Recovery Act. This
legislation aims to stop Kony
and help the children whose
lives are at risk.
"Obama now has less than
180 days to come up with a
plan to end the war and help
rebuild Uganda," Cassinari
said.
The Invisible Children
organization encourages
students to find as much in-
formation as they can and
spread the knowledge. This is
exactly what Rebecca Moore
was trying to do when she in-
troduced the organization to
Texas Wesleyan.
"Here we are four minutes
from downtown, and we're in
a poor community," Moore
said. "But we're in our own
bubble. We don't really com-
municate with any of the out-
side people. We don't interact
with the world."
The Invisible Children or-
ganization also has a scholar-
ship program to help Ugan-
dan students who weren't able
to go to high school or college
because of the war.
Francis Ojok, sophomore
public administration and
management major at Gulu
University in Gulu, Uganda,
is one of those students and
supports ending the Ugan-
dan conflict. Ojok is currently
touring with the Invisible
Children movement.
"The war has destroyed
our community," Ojok said.
"We've lost our lives, our
properties and our families."
The movie screenings and
concerts that took place Oct.
5 was the fifth time Invisible
Children came to Wesleyan.
Moore hopes they continue to
come and spread knowledge.
"Education is the best way
Photo courtesy of Invisible Children
The Invisible Children's mission statement is to use film, creativity and social action to end the
use of child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army and restore Northern Uganda to peace.
for us to be able to obtain
sustainable peace," Ojok said.
Moore said she is hoping
someone will take the reins
before she leaves, because she
wants to start a Wesleyan or-
ganization that supports In-
visible Children.
"Invisible Children has
this thing called Schools for
Schools," Moore said. "If
someone starts an organiza-
tion or chapter of Invisible
Children, they can help to
raise money by doing watch
parties, have fundraisers and
just different kinds of fun
events to bring more attention
and donate money to Invisible
Children and have fun while
doing it."
TURNITIN continued from page 1
students don't reference their
work," said associate profes-
sor of art Kit Hall. "There are
times it has been a blatant at-
tempt to plagiarize. And then
there are times that students
seem to just not know how to
determine what plagiarism
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is.
Well known for its abil-
ity to scan and detect pla-
giarism, the system actually
rates work it has scanned on
a color and percentage scale.
If a paper shows up in green
for a professor after scan-
ning, it indicates that about
five to 10 percent of the pa-
per is similar to things found
on the Internet, but not nec-
essarily that those parts are
plagiarized. The next color
professors may encounter is
yellow, which can indicate up
to 50 percent of a paper be-
ing similar to content found
on the Internet.
Pelphrey said the third
level is red, meaning more
than 50 percent of the paper
matches other content on the
Internet, and that most or all
of it has been plagiarized.
"Turnitin is not the end-
all-be-all to detect plagia-
rism but if plagiarism is
suspected, it is a very good
aid to substantiate that suspi-
cion, or not," Flail said.
The GradeMark resource is
another useful tool for pro-
fessors who want to grade
their work online.
"I have been wanting to
do more grading online, but
I didn't want to use Word,"
said Dr. Elizabeth Battles,
professor of English. "The
CETF told me about turni-
tin, and I really like it. I am
not really that interested in
the 'originality reports' that
match student work to essays
and articles on the web. I
think it is useful for students
to see it, but I just want to use
the online grading system."
CLEANUP continued from page 1
Karen Avelar.
"We are trying to finish
the work that we started in
the spring," said Kimberly
Webb, assistant professor of
accounting.
The city of Fort Worth pro-
vided all the supplies for the
new mural at no cost. Sup-
plies were courtesy of the
Fort Worth Abatement Pro-
gram.
"The students wanted to
come up with a service proj-
ect," Webb said. "So we as-
signed a committee, and
they generated a whole list of
ideas, this being one of them."
Volunteers scanned up to
three blocks within Wesley-
an's perimeter and down to
the soccer fields looking for
graffiti, said Joshua Stone,
president of the Accounting
Society and senior forensic
accounting major.
"I'm passionate about vol-
unteering," Stone said. "I'm
passionate about community
involvement."
Last year about 25 to 30
students attended the cam-
pus cleanup that lasted from
about 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Avelar
said.
"We will also be working
with the Graffiti Abatement
Program who will be provid-
ing all the supplies," she said.
According to the Graffiti
Abatement Program website,
the program helps residen-
tial and commercial property
owners comply with the law
by offering graffiti removal
services at no cost.
Fort Worth property own-
ers can receive five gallons
of beige paint every three
months for use on graffiti
surfaces, according to the city
of Fort Worth's website.
For more pictures and in-
formation on the Account-
ing Society, visit https://sites.
google.com/site/twuacctso-
ciety.
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