The Carolinian [October 18, 2011]

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Vol. XCII No. 8 Established 1919 October 18 - 24, 2011
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Today
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Opinions Page 5
WEATHER
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A&E Page 10
Index Campus 2 State 3 Opinions 5 A&E 10 Features 14 Sports 17
Lex Menz
Staff Writer
Sports Page 17
Shakori Hills Festival, Local
musician talk: Daniel Levi
Goans, Gatewood Art Gallery,
Anthrometric Fashion Show,
Ultimate Comic Challenge
Two views on “Occupy”
movement, Should Obama
drop Biden?, Bacchmann: out
of touch with modern reality?,
Exteme Couponing
Featured person: David Stapp,
College students and anxiety,
Redefining “science,” Consoles
vs. Computers
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“Go Blue” preview, Volleyball
wins two, Men’s & women’s
soccer win, The impact of Al
Davis
Geek Week: Academic integrity series
New media shapes physical and mental health
Sunny
See GAMES, page 3
Showers
Kaycie Coy
News Editor
Brittany Johnson distribute refreshments to students Dinora Toj and Natalie
Hellman.
INSIDE: NC TEACHING FELLOWS FACES PERMANENT ELIMINATION, PAGE TWO
Features Page 14
The Dean of Student Conduct
(DSC) office began its first day
of Geek Week on Wednesday,
October 12 to generate aware-ness
about the Academic Integ-rity
Policy. The policy states that
UNCG students are to commit
to honesty in their class assign-ments,
not to plagiarize, and to
refrain from illegal copyright
activity.
Day One
To kick off the three-day event,
the DSC held a Pizza Pep Rally.
Organizers provided 20 Papa
John’s pizzas for all students who
willingly signed the Academic
Integrity Pledge.
Laura Andrews, a graduate in-tern
for the DSC, said, “This is an
opportunity to connect with the
Dean office and our new space…
We think it’s going to be pretty
big because we have events all
week.”
Joshua Green, Coordinator of
Student Conduct, explained the
week was designed to teach stu-dents
“about the policy…Hon-estly,
that’s what we’re about.”
The a large amount of partici-pants
turned out, with students
lined up outside the door of the
Elliott University Center Audito-rium
to sign the pledge and grab
a slice of pizza. The space was
easygoing with music, such as
Bon Jovi, played on speakers and
Dr. Brett Carter, the Dean of Stu-dent
Conduct, leading a UNCG
chant.
Students were vocal about the
importance of academic integ-rity.
Molly Johnson said, “I think
it damages them [students who
cheat] more than anything else.
People think it’s the easy way out,
but it’s really doing damage to
them and their learning.”
“Lack of integrity diminish-es
the academic process,” said
graduate student Laura Dun-can.
Her classmate Nikki Kennai
added, “If you’re not doing the
work yourself, you’re not really
learning.”
Day one continued with an in-formational
session in the Kirk-land
room of the EUC. Allison
Palmadessa from the Learning
Assistance Center taught an Out-reach
Workshop on Learning
Skills (OWLS) about Test-Tak-ing.
Eight participants joined Pal-madessa
in the first floor room,
where she gave a PowerPoint lec-ture
on how to successfully study
for an exam in multiple formats.
The presentation provided
six major errors students make
while taking a test, including:
misreading directions, careless-
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Brittany Thompson/the carolinian
Day one Day two
Students sign Academic Integrity agreements in exchange for pizza.
Tori Vaughan and Cynthia Sandoval help themselves to free Yum Yums ice
cream.
Day three
A small crowd of hunger-ing
minds gathered in the Petty
building last Thursday after-noon.
The craving for society’s
perception of new media and
its effects on developing genera-tions
had students and faculty a
twitter as they waited for the dis-cussion
to unfold.
Dr. Robert Guttentag, De-partment
head of Psychology,
introduced the guest speaker as
a gentleman possessing an, “im-pressive
record,” said Guttentag.
Russell Shilling, Ph. D., gradu-ated
from UNCG in 1992 with
his Doctorate in Experimental
Psychology. After enlisting in
the Navy after his graduation, in
1996 he was hired as an Associ-ate
Professor at the United States
Air Force Academy and placed
within the Department of Behav-ioral
Sciences and Leadership.
Four years later the Naval Acad-emy’s
Post Graduate school hired
Guttentag as a professor in the
Operations, Research, and Sys-tems
Engineering department,
followed by a promotion as the
technical director of immersive
technologies at the Modeling
Virtual Environments and Simu-lation
Institute (MOVES).
Shilling’s involvement in
MOVES opened up the doors
to working with technology and
new media to provide a way for
victims of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) to heal, as well
as simulation stressor games to
work on concentration skills. In
2007, he developed programs
with the personified puppet tele-vision
show, Sesame Street, to
“help children and families adjust
to multiple deployments, injured
family members, and the loss of a
loved one,” stated Guttentag.
Guttentag introduced the dis-cussion
as a session focused on
the development of games and
systems that would aid in child-hood
learning experiences. How-ever,
much of Shilling’s topic
ness, concept errors, application
errors, test procedure errors, and
studying. “What did he or she re-ally
stress?” asked Palmadessa,
explaining about the correct
study procedure. “What did we
really go over? …Don’t park at
a table and say, ‘Oh man, I have
to study.’ Don’t just sit there with
your stuff… Make sure you have
a goal.”
Palmadessa’s main point was
that students do not spend the al-lotted
amount of time studying.
“You should not spend more than
two hours the night before study-ing
an exam… you want to spend
two hours not eight.” She contin-ued
to say studying for an exam
is a process, one that should not
be rushed. Palmadessa said it was
best to study at least two weeks
ahead of time for just a small
chunk of time a day. As a result,
the brain has time to process all
the information, remember it,
and retain it. She also stressed
to take it slow, answer the easier