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Kickoff of Ethics Awareness Week today BY JACQUELINE OGRODNIK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The National Center for Professional and Research Ethics will be sponsoring Ethics Awareness Week on Oct. 8-12. This week-long event will consist of various local and national speakers who will focus on issues involving ethics in a wide range of areas from personal life to teaching to conducting research. Ethics Awareness Week is sponsored by the Graduate College and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and is co-sponsored by the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society. “Students will benefit from Ethics Awareness Week by having the opportunity to learn about the important and complex issues surrounding ethics,” said Peter Schiffer, vice chancellor for research, in an email. C.K. Gunsalus, director of Illinois’ National Center for Professional and Research Ethics and co-organizer of the event, said this week will focus on encouraging, thinking and talking about ethics. “All of us grapple with ethical issues and ethical choices,” Gunsalus said. “When working in an organization with other people, there are misunderstandings, confl icts and issues where rules are sometimes ambiguous.” Gunsalus said students also face ethical issues, such as taking a friend’s I-clicker to class to comparing reports before submitting them. In an effort to involve students in the week’s activities, the Ethics Collaborative Online Resource Environment student advisory committee will be hosting an expert panel Thursday at the Illini Union. An online form at tinyurl.com/ethicsexpertquestions is available for students to anonymously fi ll out, so the discussion can be centered on real situations. “People encounter these problems all the time,” Gunsalus said. “Talking about them with each other and sharing resources and perspectives is fascinating, engaging and fun.” Brian Barsotti, sophomore in LAS, said ethical behavior is valuable in many aspects of life. “I believe ethics play a vital role in the lives of students, both in terms of academic integrity and in terms of social interactions,” he said. Throughout the week, speakers from academic and professional agencies and organizations will focus on major issues in ethics.
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A group of “zombies”—students taking part in the campus-wide week-long game of Humans vs. Zombies— charge up the sidewalk near Foellinger Auditorium as they attempt to capture it from the “humans” on Saturday.
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group of zombies gathered at the bottom of the steps outside Foellinger Hall, glaring up at the humans who stood at the top defensively. The zombies, preparing to claim their victory and the human’s defeat by swarming the steps, fiercely chanted battle cries. “What do we want? Brains! When do we want them? Now!” the zombies screamed. This battle was part of an outdoor, weeklong game of modified tag put on by a registered student organization, called Humans vs. Zombies. Tuesday marked the beginning of a week of paranoia for the humans. Two members of the RSO made up a creative team to develop the storyline and game objectives. Every day, the team issued public service announcements, or emails, to members of the RSO about
!"Humans and zombies have one
week to defeat their opponents Human and zombie leaders send public service announcements by email each night to describe upcoming missions !"The first day, two original undercover zombies have 24 hours to start their population by tagging humans !"Each human is fitted with an identification armband in blue or yellow to denote their status !"Zombies can be stunned by humans for 15 minutes with sock
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become “zombified” within one hour !"Other than inside campus buildings or while riding some form of transportation, humans can be tagged anywhere and at any time !"During the final round, three “generators,” or plastic cups, are used to keep zombies alive !"In that round, zombies can only be wiped out after all the generators are held captive for seven minutes
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Disability resources division wins award BY YELE AJAYI CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University accepted a 2012 BarrierFree America Award, which recognized the handicap accessibility of campus, on Tuesday. Brad Hedrick, director of the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services, accepted the award for the divsion as well as Nugent Hall at the Paralyzed Veterans of America Americana Gala in Washington, D.C. “The award was an acknowledgement of the leadership the University has shown to promote societal access for people with disabilities,” Hedrick said. The Barrier-Free America Award, cre-
ated in 2001, is annually presented to an organization or individual that focuses on the importance of accessible design for people who are paralyzed. Nugent Hall, named after DRES founder, Timothy J. Nugent, opened in March 2010 and provides students with remotecontrolled ceiling lift systems, sensor-controlled light switches, keyless entry and adjustable furniture. The University was the fi rst to offer residential services to students with disabilities, according to a press release. Hedrick said there are more than 1,300 students in the program and over 70 percent of those students have a disability. “(DRES) provide(s) all of the services that
are required to provide students with equal access,” Hedrick said. “The population has substantially grown over the past 40 years.” Hedrick said the facility tries to be helpful in providing students with support groups and academic coaching. He said DRES is known for having the fi rst wheelchair-accessible fi xed route bus system and implementing curb cuts. Delta Sigma Omicron also became the fi rst university service fraternity and advocacy group comprised of students with disabilities with the help of DRES . The division also helped establish the fi rst collegiate adapted sports and recreation program for students with
PHOTO COURTESY OF PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
From left: Mark Lichter, Paralyzed Veterans of America director of architecture; Tanya Gallagher, dean of the College of Applied Health Sciences; and Charlie Brown, PVA national vice president.
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Computing conference attracts students, employers BY TYLER DAVIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Ken Taylor, engineering manager at Neustar, speaks at the Reflections|Projections conference in the Digital Computing Lab on Saturday.
Startup tech companies were the focus of the 18th annual Reflections | Projections Computing Conference, hosted by the University’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM put an emphasis on exposing students to entrepreneurial computing on Saturday by introducing a startup fair where up-and-coming companies pitched their businesses to potential new employees. This fair — the fi rst of its kind in the event’s 18-year history — gave startups a chance to shine without being overshadowed by larger companies like Facebook and Intel, which were part of another job fair on Friday.
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“We want to provide students with better ways to get in touch with some of the better minds in technology,“ said Cait Reizman, co-chair of the conference. The fairs were held at Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, the main building of the University’s computer science department. “I can think of no other place that would be more focused on computer science and engineering students than (at an) ACM convention at (the) Siebel Center,” said Rajesh Karmani of Zero Percent, a startup aimed at eliminating food waste at restaurants. Karmani said Zero Percent is searching for engineers, mobile developers, web developers and other positions. All of the companies present were seeking
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part-time employees, full-time employees and interns. “There are a lot of students that get hired (at the fairs), and it has a really nice community feel to it,” Reizman said. “We like that we’re able to keep it somewhat small, and it’s casual dress, so I feel like people can be more themselves.” ACM also hosted its eighteenth MechMania tournament at the conference, where for 24 hours teams coded AIs that competed against one another in a tower defense game. First prize winners were eligible to win $375. Presentations were offered all weekend, including “The Art and Algorithms of Pixar’s Brave,” by Danielle Feinberg,
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