Volume 124 Issue 36
kansan.com
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
the student voice since 1904
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Cody Alley, a junior from Lawrence, holds a sign at the Occupy Lawrence demonstration Saturday.
Local 'Occupy' takes downtown
Thousands of students piled out of town for fall break and those who remained could see Lawrence occupied like it had never been before.
JOHN GARFIELD
editor@kansan.com
Dozens of students and concerned citizens turned out Saturday for "Occupy Lawrence," the local division of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that has been taking place throughout the United States. The corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets served as a platform for many issues including systemic discrimination, food
safety, financial regulation, information control, environmental law and alternative energy.
“This is starti ng a conversation about a lot of things,” said Gus Bova, a freshman from
Activists showed concerns heightened by legislation granting greater rights to corporations while lowering legal and financial responsibilities, particularly in light of the Supreme Court decision to allow corporate influence on political campaigns as individuals under the First Amendment.
"The individual label fails a lot of the time," said Cody Alley, a junior from Lawrence. "They get to cover up what they've done. They can lobby because they have so much money they basically control politicians."
Demonstrators also cited class-based disparities in the tax code as key agents in perpetuating the imbalance of power they spoke of.
Lawrence. "In particular, it is settled around disparity of wealth and economic inequality."
Though the event drew upon multiple facets of community concerns, the heart of the event's base movement focused on the crux of economic disparity and criticism for corporate influence within government.
"They keep trying to get more from lower and lower income families and take their taxes even though the top one percent is barely paying any," said Jayne Wakefield, a graduate student in
"A lot of people are bringing their own personal grievances to this, but because this is something to open a conversation, it's a way that people are starting to network and see how those personal grievances are interwoven," said Marie Byleen, a demonstrator holding a sign warning against "hollow democracy."
social welfare
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Edited by Mike Lavieri
from Ithaca Mich.
CODY ALLEY student
Organizers hoped to draw attention to the Occupy Kansas City event that took place on Sunday, all as to
draw attention for the movement on a national level. Activists espoused involvement on the street level as well as via social networking sites as a means of circumventing media channels that have a vested disinterest in the topic, citing the success of Facebook and Twitter in circulating news during revolutions in the Middle East.
"My belief isn't political," Alley said. "I'm all about capitalism. I'm all about corporations. I just don't think they should be running the government."
Though spectators of the event may have understandably viewed the dissent as caustic political subversion, demonstrators insisted on distinguishing themselves from polarized political entities.
The Occupy Lawrence movement will continue to host daily meetings at Watson "Train" Park downtown at 6 p.m.
MEET THE FROGS
After losing A&M to the SEC, the Big 12 brings TCU onboard
ANDREW JOSEPH
ajoseph@kansan.com
Students and fans will have reason to travel to Ft. Worth, Texas, beginning in 2012. While students were taking Monday off, Texas Christian University became the Big 12's 10th member.
"We are excited to add TCU to our lineup of prestigious members," Big 12 Interim Commissioner Chuck Neinas said. "Not only do they bring an excellent football program to our conference, but numerous other programs that have been successful on a national level so well."
The conference formally extended an invitation to TCU Thursday, and it took just a matter of days for the school to accept the offer.
TCU was originally due to join the Big East in 2012, but the conference is currently in
a state of disarray following the departures of Pittsburgh and Syracuse for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
providing students with major opportunities in a personalized environment. It is very much in line with our overall goal to create a world-class university"
During the past 15 months, the Big 12 has suffered from conference realignment, but the conference looks to change that trend.
"Joining the Big 12 connects us not only to schools with whom we share a rich tradition in sports, but also to schools committed to academic excellence," TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. said. "Over the past six years, TCU has seen unprecedented success in academics and athletics. Participating in this conference allows us to strengthen the core of the TCU experience, which includes
TCU choosing the Big 12 over the Big East largely reaffirms Netna's movement to stabilize the conference landscape since taking over the position from Dan Beebe.
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With the Big 12's membership back to 10 teams, the focus now shifts toward the University of Missouri.
Although TCU will reportedly still have to pay the $5 million Big East exit fee, the Horned Frogs will start competing in the Big 12 in 2012.
Just last week, the University board of curators granted Missouri Chancellor Brad Deaton
full authority regarding Missouri's future conference affiliation.
If Missouri were to leave the Big 12, the school would most likely be joining Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference, but Missouri's
decision will have no bearing on the conference's 2012 makeup.
"If Missouri was going to change horses, it wouldn't be for 2012 anyway." Neinas told the Associated Press.
A leaked document from the Missouri Board of Curators to the AP revealed that the school would wait as long as possible before jumping conferences in order to minimize potential exit penalties.
"Well give Missouri time to evaluate its situation, and have an opportunity to look at the Big 12 Conference and perhaps get a better understanding of where we're going." Neinas said. "I think were on the verge of making some good progress."
The Big 12's plans for expansion beyond 2012 are entirely dependent on the course of action Missouri takes in the near future.
—Edited by Jonathan Shorman
TCU QUICK FACTS
Texas Christian University announced Monday its move from the Mountain West to the Big 12 joining the conference in all sports effective July 1, 2012. The Big 12 passed over TCU in 1996.
Nickname:
Horned Frogs
Founded:
1873
Location:
Fort Worth, Texas
Enrollment:
8,749
97 Ranking among national universities
Chancellor:
Victor Boschini, Jr.
Colors:
White and Purple
4-2
FROGS FOOTBALL:
Current Record
13-0
Last year's record (Rose Bowl winners)
SOURCE: TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
CAMPUS
Professors censured for plagiarism
IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
The University publicly cen
sured two professors for plagiarism last week, following an investigation by the Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies. The censure was published in the News in Brief section of KU Today on Oct. 4. According to the University, Mahesh Visyanathan.
Lushington
Mahesh
a courtesy assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, and Gerald Lushington, a courtesy associate professor in the department of medicinal chemistry, engaged in scholarly misconduct by permitting the publication of plagiarized text despite warnings from colleagues.
Plagiarism, according to Section 6.5, Article II, of University Senate Rules and Regulations, is classified as academic misconduct. Disciplinary action for faculty, in some cases, differs from disciplinary action for students.
These sanctions may be imposed on either a student or an instructor:
(1) Admonition. An oral statement that his or her present actions constitute academic misconduct.
(2) *Warning*. An ort or written statement that continuation or repetition, within a stated period, of actions that constitute academic misconduct may be the cause for a more severe disciplinary sanction.
(3) *Censure*. A written repriment for actions that constitute academic misconduct. Censure may include a written warning.
Other sanctions that may be imposed on a student:
- Reduction of grade for specific work, reduction of course grade, exclusion from activities, transcript citation for academic misconduct, suspension from a specific course, suspension from all courses, and expulsion.
Other sanctions that may be imposed on an instructor:
• Two year suspension or indefinite dismiss
- More than one sanction may be imposed upon a student or an instructor for the saine offense or offenses.
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY SENATE RULES AND REGULATIONS
The censure announcement
named four academic papers that contained plagiarized material, including "Systematically Identifying Genes and Pathways in Multiple Cancer Types Using HGD & PSO-SVM" and "PathMapper An Integrative Approach for Oncogene Pathway Identification." The papers were published in
Index
August 2009 in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which held copies of the papers
CLASSIFIEDS 11
CROSSWORD 4
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
SPORTS 12
SUDOKU 4
SEE PLAGIARISM1 3
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