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POLICY
Intl. students left scrambling
POLICE
U police to gear officers with Narcan UMN police will join the city’s officers and firefighters with the overdose-reversing drug. BY EMMA DILL edill@mndaily.com
HAILEE SCHIEVELBEIN, DAILY
The University is advising students to comply with visa regulations to avoid penalties from the federal government.
University’s Immigration Response Team,
This means students can acquire
said the new policy is less accommodating
an unlawful presence charge without
to international students.
knowing they have violated the terms
Previously, students wouldn’t receive an unlawful presence charge unless an immi-
cxie@mndaily.com
A recent change in federal policy has left some University of Minnesota international students scrambling at the start of the school year. The policy on “Accrual of Unlawful Presence,” which went into effect in August, impacts how the federal government manages unlawful presence
“The thing that didn’t make sense to me is ... that I had to go do all this additional stuff to do service learning, which is effectively helping the community that I’m in right now.” AAHIKA HARLALKA international student
of international students with student
The new policy poses serious imbecause they may be subject to unlawful presence charges when the terms of their visas are slightly violated, said George Maxwell, an immigration lawyer with Borene Law Firm in Minneapolis. With the new policy, if the government discovers this policy violation, the student will begin accruing unlawful presence, sometimes without their knowledge, Maxwell said.
visas. Unlawful presence occurs when
When a student is unlawfully present visa, said Hill-Dongre. Under the new poli-
is banned from returning to the U.S. for
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
cy, students start to accumulate charges
an extended period, Maxwell said.
Services website.
on their record over time when they fail to u See VISAS Page 3
ADMINISTRATION
U Senate launches comprehensive academic dishonesty review
BY AUSTEN MACALUS amacalus@mndaily.com
In an effort to better understand academic integrity at the University of Minnesota, members of the University Senate are looking at ways colleges across the University system can prevent cheating. Starting this fall, the Student Academic Integrity Committee will review how schools within the University handle cheating, plagiarism and other forms of scholastic
BY LEW BLANK lblank@mndaily.com
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visa — invalidating it, according to
misconduct. The efforts, launched at the committee’s meeting last week, could take several years to complete. “[We’re] trying to find out what people are doing,” said Jeffrey Schott, a professor of chemical engineering and chair of the committee. “This is a longer term effort that we’re just beginning.” Colleges have their own ways of handling matters of academic dishonesty, Schott said, which can result in significant differences at the University. The committee will meet with various administrators to gauge the prevalence of incidents, the challenges schools face when upholding academic integrity and the resources needed to improve
Student Counseling Services offers 15 free sessions a year, which some say is too few.
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in the country for 180 days, the student
A review of plagiarism and cheating at the University of Minnesota began last week.
Students feel restricted by U therapy limits
academic integrity. Last year, there were 387 reports of scholastic dishonesty on the Twin Cities campus, according to data by the Office for Community Standards. The number of reports has remained fairly consistent over the past five years. Scholastic dishonesty can include plagiarism on a paper, sharing answers on homework or cheating on an exam. Sanctions range from partial credit on an assignment to automatic failure of a course. There are many “possibilities of dishonesty” for students, said John Hourdos, director of the Minnesota Traffic Observatory
gration judge ruled they had violated their
maintain their status.
HEALTH
With mental health a widely-discussed issue at the University of Minnesota, some students have expressed there is a shortage of therapy sessions available to them. Student Counseling Services, a mental health service provider on campus, offers 15 free therapy sessions to students every year. Students are allowed 25 sessions across their entire time at the University. Some students say these limits on free, oncampus therapy appointments can create financial obstacles and reduce their access to mental health services. According to SCS, the on-campus sessions are not intended to treat long-term problems, but focus on addressing shortterm issues. Morgan Hineline, a sophomore studying psychology, began attending therapy sessions with SCS to help treat her anxiety. She was unable to continue her sessions once she reached the 15 appointment cap. Although SCS helped arrange for an offcampus institution to provide further care, Hineline had difficulty financing and traveling to that service. “I ended up not being able to [attend the mental health sessions] because I don’t have a car,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to even get to where I’m supposed to go unless I paid for an Uber or found a friend to take me, but that’s not very reliable. ... I’m
someone has violated the terms of their
Marissa Hill-Dongre, director of the
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of their visa, Hill-Dongre said. plications for international students
BY CHUYING XIE
University of Minnesota police will begin carrying naloxone, a narcotic overdose-reversing drug, this week in hopes of keeping students and those passing through campus safe. The University of Minnesota Police Department’s roll-out follows the example of the Minneapolis police and fire departments, who also moved to carry the drug in response to increased overdoses in the Twin Cities in recent years. While opioid overdoses don’t pose a significant problem for UMPD, officials say it’s important to keep up with neighboring departments and citywide efforts. “Despite the reported uptick in opioid overdoses in the metro, campus has not seen a spike in drug use or overdoses,” said UMPD Chief Matt Clark. In the past two years, UMPD officers responded to one opioid overdose. As it was an accidental overdose of a non-student, Clark said the department needs to be equipped to serve the larger community.
SCIENCE
University researchers receive $8 million to study wave localization The Simons Foundation grant to study the quantum behavior will unite international teams. BY NIKKI PEDERSON npederson@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota was awarded $8 million by the Simons Foundation to study the science of wave localization through international collaboration. The four-year award, given earlier this month, will bring together a group of 10 researchers and experts from Europe and the U.S. to develop a unified understanding of wave localization. In addition to experts, money was allocated to allow a large team of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to learn alongside the principal investigators. T h e p ro j e c t , c a l l e d t h e S i m o n s Collaboration on Localization of Waves, is directed by Svitlana Mayboroda, a University professor in the University’s School of Mathematics. “Waves are everywhere in everyday life,” Mayboroda said. “That applies from songs to
light to microwaves to Wi-Fi signals and to a lot of other things.” According to the Simons Foundation website, quantum mechanics proved that all matter has a wave-like character at the atomic level. Recently, it’s become possible to map material atom-by-atom and manipulate individual atoms. This provides researchers with precise measurements of a world that has many irregularities — dimensional, structural, orientational and geometric — at the same time. These abnormalities affect waves in a very different way. In complex, irregular or random media, waves frequently exhibit a behavior known as “localization.” Instead of spreading over extended regions, waves remain confined in small portions of the original domain. Wave localization was discovered roughly 60 years ago, but some aspects are still not fully understood. “Imagine you have a bathtub or pool and it’s filled with water,” said Marcel Filoche, a physicist at the École Polytechnique in France and a collaborator on the project. “If your pool is rectangular or oval shape and you start clapping on u See WAVES Page 2
TONY SAUNDERS, DAILY
University Mathematics Professor Svitlana Mayaborada conducts research using physics and analysis in her office at Vincent Hall on Tuesday, Sept.18. Mayaborada is not teaching classes this semester, instead focusing on the research.
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