Tuesday September 10, 2013 year: 133 No. 64
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BRANDON KLEIN Senior Lantern reporter klein.340@osu.edu
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Most students at Ohio State are given some kind of warning about academic misconduct. But despite a devoted section on the syllabus and the instructor pointing it out on the first day of classes, some students still cross that line of academic integrity, whether intentionally or not. And it’s occurring more often. Cases of reported academic misconduct rose by 85 percent from the 2000-2001 academic year to the 2011-2012 year at OSU, according to reports from the Committee on Academic Misconduct. From the academic year of 2000-2001, there were 287 reported cases, a total that increased to 531 by the academic year of 2011-2012 year. The number of reported cases has increased by an average of 7 percent per year. Kathryn Corl, the COAM coordinator, said there has been no reason for the increase pinpointed. “I think it would be misleading to hypothesize why,” Corl said. Not all those accused were found in violation of academic misconduct – more than 15 percent of those accused during the school years from 2000-2001 to 2011-2012 were found innocent. The increase of academic misconduct cases, however, is
Top 3 forms of academic misconduct: Plagiarism Copying materials Unauthorized collaboration
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2011-2012 academic year:
210 reported violations of plagiarism 152 charges of copying 165 charges of unauthorized collaboration
2000-2001 academic year:
60 reported charges of plagiarism 55 charges of copying 39 charges of unauthorized collaboration
Increase in cases of reported academic misconduct
244 more cases were reported in the 2011-2012 academic year than in the 2000-2001 academic year.
From 2000-2001 academic year to 2011-2012 year
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disproportionate to the increase in the university’s total enrollment, which has gone up by about 17.3 percent based on the fall quarters from 2000 and 2011, according to data from the Ohio Board of Regents. The top three forms of academic misconduct included plagiarism, copying materials and unauthorized collaboration, Corl said. In the 2011-2012 school year, there were 210 reported violations of plagiarism, 152 charges of copying and 165 charges of unauthorized collaboration. That was an increase from the 2000-2001 academic year,
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when there were 60 reported charges of plagiarism, 55 charges of copying and 39 charges of unauthorized collaboration. The rise of the Internet has likely had some influence on students committing academic misconduct, Corl said. “It makes it so tempting for students to find an essay to cut and paste and assemble,” she said. Aside from plagiarism, males made up more than half of the academic misconduct cases for each of the academic years on record since the 2002-2003 school year, something
that was not detailed in the reports for the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 academic years. On average, both rank one and three students each made up less than a quarter of the cases. Rank two students made up about a quarter while rank four students made up almost a third of the cases. The rest were graduate students. The academic years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, however, did not have the breakdown of total reported cases by class rank. Corl said since some students come to the university with college credit already the data could be misleading as to why some higher rank students appear more likely to commit academic misconduct. Some students said those who commit academic misconduct hurt themselves more than anyone else. “It’s something you shouldn’t practice but if you do it hurts yourself more,” said Loriann Bechie, a fourth-year in welding engineering. The transition from quarters to semester has impacted the results on the COAM’s annual report for the academic year of 2012-2013, Corl said. There were 375 cases of academic misconduct during that year, she said.
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Rape reported at Wexner Medical Center
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LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
Reported crimes at the Wexner Medical Center include:
A rape reported early Friday morning at Rhodes Hall was the sixth reported sex crime at the Wexner Medical Center since May. The incident allegedly took place at 5:13 a.m. and was reported by a male non-affiliate of OSU, according to a University Police report. OSU staff members listed on the report did not respond to an email requesting comment Monday. University Police representatives did not respond to an email requesting comment Monday evening. One of six American women has been the victim of an attempted or committed rape in her lifetime, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network website. During the summer, five sex crimes were reported in buildings associated with the Medical Center. A rape was reported by a female non-affiliate at Harding Hospital at 2 p.m. July 1. The woman reported the rape was by a known suspect, according to University Police records, and the case was updated Sept. 6 to a closed status because the “victim refused to cooperate.” About two-thirds of sexual assaults are
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committed by someone known to the victim, according to RAINN. A second rape was reported at the James Cancer Hospital Aug. 15 at about midnight. Investigation into the event is pending, according to the University Police log. A sexual imposition reported by a female non-affiliate that allegedly occurred May 2 at Care Point East about 1 p.m. and a gross sexual imposition reported by a female OSU staff member at
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Harding Hospital May 25 at 3:15 p.m. are both listed as “victim refused to cooperate,” according to the log. In a third incident, a female non-affiliate reported a sexual imposition at OSU Hospital East that allegedly occurred June 19 at about 6 p.m. The female was a patient at the hospital and the alleged violator was an employee. The female did not want to press charges against the violator and the case was closed, according to a University Police report.
OSU alumni fight heart condition in children
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CAITLIN ESSIG Managing editor for content essig.21@osu.edu Darren and Phyllis Sudman put their son Simon down for a nap Jan. 24, 2005, just more than 90 days after he was born. Simon never woke up. Since then, his parents have been working on the organization they co-founded, Simon’s Fund, in efforts to ensure other families don’t have to deal with losing their child to similar, preventable causes. Simon died because of an undetected heart condition called Long QT syndrome, despite being born a “healthy baby,” according to his mother. “There were no problems,” said Phyllis Sudman, a 1993 graduate of Ohio State, adding that Simon’s physical test scores were normal. “And then … we put him down for a nap, and he didn’t wake up.” Phyllis Sudman said the coroner and Simon’s pediatrician both encouraged her and her husband to get their hearts checked. When they did, Phyllis Sudman was also diagnosed with Long QT syndrome, the heart condition which had killed her son. Long QT syndrome increases one’s likelihood of having an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to fainting, palpitations or sudden death. About 10 percent of babies with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome had mutations or genetic defects for Long QT Syndrome, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Courtesy of Darren Sudman
Darren (left), Phyllis, Jaden and Sally Sudman pose for a photo at the signing of the Pennsylvania Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act May 30, 2012. “Then we started hearing about these students who would drop dead, particularly student-athletes,” said Darren Sudman, a 1992 OSU graduate who has been working on pushing legislation related to sudden cardiac arrest as well. “And so we decided that we wanted to try to prevent other families from having to go through what we went through.” Simon’s Fund is an organization which provides free heart screenings to children, mostly in the greater Philadelphia area where the Sudmans live. “(We) provide free heart screenings to students so that we could find these conditions before they
killed students, because almost all the conditions that lead to sudden cardiac arrest or death of kids are detectable and preventable with an EKG (Electrocardiogram) test,” Darren Sudman said. In the about seven years since the Sudmans founded Simon’s Fund, thousands of children have been scanned. “We’ve screened over 6,000 kids and found over 50 that have heart conditions. And so that’s one out of almost every 100 kids,” Darren Sudman said. In an effort to create a standard of care that would require all children to get their hearts checked, Darren
Sudman helped craft a bill, which was signed into law in Pennsylvania. The bill was introduced June 16, 2011, signed into law by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on May 30, 2012 and was implemented two months later. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act “requires parents of student-athletes to review and sign an information sheet about sudden cardiac arrest before each season begins” and “requires coaches and athletic directors to complete an annual online training course on sudden cardiac arrest,” according to a statement from Darren Sudman and Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Vereb, who introduced the bill. On Aug. 12, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed the bill into law in his state, becoming the second state to pass such a law. The bill was introduced in Ohio May 28 by Rep. Connie Pillich, under the title HB180. Pillich said sudden cardiac arrest legislation is necessary for the health and wellbeing of young people. “Playing sports should be fun, and should build both strength and character in children,” Pillich said in an email. “But participating in athletics should not risk a child’s long term mental or physical health. Because we are learning much more about the dangers of concussions in young athletes, this measure is both appropriate and needed.”
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