Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 2002 Page: 3 of 8
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Buying term papers online becomes more prevalent
Sara Springfield
Megaphone Stapf
Term Papers Heaven, com.
15000papers.com, Research Papers
Online. The Term Paper Store. All
are sources where anyone with a
credit card and a topic can purchase
a research paper. From accounting
to ethics and morality, online paper
buying has become more popular in
recent years. With approximately
20,000 websites like these, it is less
likely that two of the same papeT
will come before a professor. The
websites are fairly simple to use,
with the exception of those that do
not offer full descriptions of each
paper. A person clicks on a subject
heading, such as Biology or Psy-
chology, and is then led through
an extensive iist of paper titles on
different topics. Once a paper is
chosen, the person types in their
credit card number, name, and
e-mail address, and the paper is
usually sent within 24 hours. Rush
delivery available.
So now that you’ve learned
exactly how to do it, and the names
of a few websites, why not go buy
a few papers for future classes? “It
really is just an easy way to get
done what you need to get done. I
really only used it for my general
ed. classes, classes I wasn’t really
interested in since they didn’t have
much to do with my major. I really
had no issues with buying a paper
on a topic I wasn’t really interested
in or cared to learn much about,”
said Daniel Howard*, a junior at
the University of Southern Califor-
nia. Andrea Smith, a sophomore at
Southwestern, had this comment:
“I've never done it before, but I
don’t have a problem with other
people doing it. 1 figure for the
amount of time I or someone else
would use reading, researching, and
structuring a paper is about the
same price that the paper is worth
online, and 1 would only spend an
hour op so tweaking it. The ratio’s
pretty even,”
Other students said they would
never turn in a paper that they
bought online, but might use it
for ideas. “It’s like reading a
journal article, or a summary, or
an outline out of a book. It’s
just another source of information,”
said one student. Another thought
that “online papers should just all
be made free, like those websites
where people can post their class
notes for others to read.” However,
all of the students who agreed with
this viewpoint said that they would
not cite the paper in their bibli-
ography. As can be expected, the
“pro” side of buying papers online
is limited. Most people agree that
buying someone else’s work and
passing it off as your own is wrong
and, as most professors pointed
t out, a violation of the Honor Code.
“Getting a research paper off the
web would be a clear violation of
the Honor Code, in any class. I
would expect it would constitute
an F in the class (not just for the
paper),” Professor Suzanne Buchele
said. Most cases of plagiarized
work are easily detectable at South-
western, due to the smaller amount
of students, and the answer on what
to do is in the handbook. Some pro-
fessors, however, think the Honor
Code is not specific enough in ref-
erence to plagiarism.
"At SU, I caught a student
having borrowed the “outline” for
their paper from a sermon pub-
lished online. Though this may noi
have met the published definition
of plagiarism in the student hand-
book, it crossed the line from my
perspective. As a consequence, I
think the definition of plagiarism
needs to be revisited here,” said
Professor David Stewart.
In addition tif it being some-
what illegal at most schools to
use a paper bought online, most
students, especially at small, lib-
eral arts schools like Southwestern,
think that it compromises intelli-
gence and creativity. Senior Amy
Kim said that “when I write a
paper, or work on any other kind of
project, I pride myself on it being
my own work. Everything I do
here is an expression of me, not of
someone on the internet that I have
never met.”
Another student thinks “if you’re
smart enough to get into South-
western, you obviously did some-
thing right. You’re smart enough
to write your own papers. Buying
a paper is just laziness.”
Most students agree that at a
smaller school, artistic value and
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Online term paper buying has become increasingly popular Many professors are concerned that
some may be turning in the online papers
individual intelligence are stressed
more than at a large university. “If
a student is considering short-cut-
ting their education by doing some-
thing like getting a research paper
off the web, they should go to a
school where a) there isn't an honor
code and b) the education is much
cheaper, so. . . they aren't paying
so much for something they are
choosing not to get anyway,” Pro-
fessor Buchele commented.
In one of Professor Barbara
Owens’ classes, students com-
mented that the extremely specific
topics at Southwestern would make
it too difficult to purchase a paper.
Furthermore, they suggested that
“both the topic and the level of writ-
ing make the services more appeal-
ing to high school students.” In
both high schools and large univer-
si^es, where TA's are usually the
people doing the grading, it seems
to be easier to get away with pla-
giarizing, as less attention is paid
to creativity and writing style, and
structure is the main emphasis.
*ALL student names have
been changed.
Palace Theater restored in art deco style
Sara Springfield
Megaphone Staff
“I was 15 when I first worked
for the Palace. I was a popcorn
boy. Now I’m 50, and I’m the
artistic director. I’ve either come
full circle, or I haven’t improved
myself!,“ said lorn Swift, the artis-
tic director of the Palace Theatre
on S. Austin Ave. in Georgetown.
He grew up with the Palace, grad-
uated from Southwestern, watched
the Palace shut down, and has now
played a major role in its restora-
tion and reopening.
I'he Palace was built in 1925
as a silent picture house. It had a
warehouse look: buff brick with a
plain marquis slapped on the front*!
In the 1930’s, when “talkies” first
appeared on the scene, the owners
decided that movies were not just a
passing fad. They updated the the-
atre with an art deco look, popular
in that time period.
The Palace did very well for sev-
eral decades with its single screen
and small audience space. But
in the mid 1980's, multiplex the-
atres were built in Round Rock
and Austin. This killed any busi-
ness that single screen theatres had.
including the Palace. It was sold
and, for about ten years, was des-
tined for retail or office space.
However, a group of George-
town residents who had grown up
with the Palace, including Tom
Swift and Jerry Potter, the general
manager, did not want to see the
theatre used as anything other than
what it was built fpr.
The group got together, raised
and borrowed money, and bought
the Palace. For twelve years they
tried to retire the debt and make
renovation of the theatre a concern
for local government officials.
More people began to donate
money, and the growing theatre
guild applied for many grants.
(President Jake Schrum, whom
Swift referred to as “Jakey,”
donated all $12,000 from ticket
sales of his inaugural ball to the
Palace project.) Swift became the
artistic director in 1997, and over-
saw the renovation, keeping the art
deco decor of the 1930’s. Jerry
Potter, who was a lighting/technical
designer in Austin, brought much
of his lighting equipment with him,
and helped in designing the new
layout of the theatre.
The theatre now holds approxi-
Judie Niskala / Megaphone Photographer
The Palace Theater spices up the square with it’s art deco style.
The choice use of neon also provides some distinction among the
older buildings in Georgetown
mately 500 people and has a 40-foot
stage area. Plays, musicals, music
and dance concerts, and movies are
shown at the Palace now, and some
audience members have said that
the new acoustics rival Carnegie
Hall.
The Palace Theatre Guild over-
sees most of the productions, but
Swift “guards against casting the
same people all the time.”
The goal of the Palace is to
become not only a Georgetown-
area theatre, but a Central Texas
theatre, and with more and more
actors coming in for auditions from
further and further away, the Palace
is reaching its goal.
Private Lives has closed at the
Palace. From Thursday through
Saturday, however, It Happened
One Night starring Clark Gable
and Claudia Colbert will be shown.
Call 869-7469 for times.
Latinos Unidos seeks new members
Bernice Tostado
Special to the Megaphone
From many different back-
grounds, the members of Latinos
Unidos all have one thing in com-
mon— the desire to learn, to expe-
rience and to help spread the
awareness of Latino cultures.
Unity by one vision grants the
organization the ability to harbor
an environment of education and
embracement. Latinos Unidos (LU)
recognizes that all Latin American
countries are distinct. Each country
has a culture of its own, a history
of its own, and even peihaps a lan-
guage of its own.
Putting all Latinos into a single
box and blindly labeling all indi-
viduals by one name erases the
unique characteristics that distin-
guish these various cultures. In
their place, there would be a blan-
ket identity that allows others to
members to attend an informative
and motivational 2-day conference
held at Texas A&M, February 1-2,
2002. The Student Conference
On Latino Affairs (SCOLA) is an
annual event to which all people
are invited..
This year's theme focused on
what Latinos can accomplish when
allowing themselves to reach new
levels of success. The conference
provided a forum for Latino leaders
and college students to unite and
discuss the current issues facing
Latinos. Inspiring and eye-opening,
“it was definitely a conference I
will never forget," declared sopho-
more Christian Zuniga. “I had the
opportunity to hear great speakers
like Lieutenant Colonel Kickbusch,
Senate candidate Victor Morales,
and leading business figure Christy
Haubegger."
They were just a few among the
if we want to succeed as a whole.”
Becoming culturally mobile refers
to the ability to move from your
current environment or culture into
another one, as stated by Dr. Daniel
Hernandez at the conference. The
ability to survive in different cul-
tures outside your own grants you
the ability to interact with any indi-
vidual, regardless of their culture.
In all, “this was a great confer-
ence,” exclaimed first-year Ana Vil-
lalobos.
conference that has impacted me
the way this one did. Every minute
was worth it and I hope others will
join us next year!”
The Latinos Unidos Spring
Membership Drive aspires to attract
new members with a desire to
share cultural and educational expe-
riecnes. In addition, LU looks for-
ward to sharing conferences like
SCOLA, with many of its new
members next year.
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rewind
Ebony Coordinating African-American
History Month while position of
Multicultural Affairs remains vacant
from I he Megaphone February b, 1UM2
*The Weekly Rewind is a column
reprinted from past Megaphone articles
compliments of Special Collections ■
A trunk Smith Jr. Library Center
Research contributed by Justin Harris.
February is African-Ameri-
can History Month, and in keep-
ing with the occasion Ebony has
several campus-wide activities
planned for the next few weeks.
The first event will be a dance,
scheduled tomorrow night in the
Mood Atrium. Then on Friday,
February 14, John Hansen from
UT's radio station will speak on
campus. The following week
on Feb. 28, Ebony will sponsor
Family Teud in the SUB. An
African-American Showcase is
tentatively set for the Feb. 27,
at which students will present
different forms of art, such as
poetry or dance.
While Ebony is coordinating
the events on their own this year,
the university is preparing to
begin a search for a new director
Gregory Washington vacated the
position last fall, the responsibil-
ities that go along with the job
have Student Activities Director
Tracy Bonday-de Leon, Direc-
tor of Residence Life Sherry
Gutman and other staff mem-
bers.
The Minority Presence Com-
mittee has been working to come
up with a model of what they
want the Director of Multicul-
tural Affairs to do and what kind
of qualifications they want to see
in the person who takes the job.
Admissiohs counselor Adri-
anne Jones says that with the
exception of Austin College, the
schools with which Southwestern
is generally in competition have
three separate offices for mul-
ticultural affairs, study abroad,
and international students.
Presently, Southwestern has a
director of study abroad, but no
director of multicultural affairs
or of international students. For
this reason, there has been some
confusion about what administra-
tive office on campus should bear
what responsibilities for certain
several different offices. There
is concern within the Minority
Presence Committee that these
responsibilities be clearly defined
when new directors of study
abroad and of multicultural
affairs are hired.
It has been suggested that the
offices of the two new directors
be located in the same area, that
they share a common secretary
and other common resources,
and that they start at the same
time.
As of now, three candidates
for international studies director
have been invited to campus.
And Dean of Students Roger
Ballou says that the Minority
Presence Committee is two to
three weeks away from having
the establish its position on what
its members see as the function
of a Multicultural Affairs direc-
tor. At Monday 's meeting of the
committee, Rosenthal assured
members that “this position is
going to be there.”
make blanket assumptions about all many amazing Latino leaders at the <
members of a “group". LU strives conference. Leticia Davila, sopho-
to embrace these different cultures more, also enjoyed the conference L,. . > ' \ 1 Covr+esy of Latinos
and to spread their recognition in and said “it has opened my eyes Latinos Unidos members: (left to right) Linda Patlan, Liz Vera,
effort to avoid the consequences of
such grouping.
Taking a step in the right direc-
tion, LU President Yesenia Garcia
and made me more knowledgeable
about myself and my culture. I
learned that we, a^ individuals,
need to become culturally mobile
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Leticia Davila, Ana Alcaraz, Marisa Cafnptrano, Carolina Herrera,
Col. Kickbusch, Yesenia Garcia, Lizette Torres, Berenice Jostado,
Ana Villalobos and Christian Zuniga.
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