CAMPUS NEWS Mays, 2006 2 Bombings Academic Dishonesty: Transcending Words CONTINUED FROM PAGEl among the injured. It is not certain if the Monday explo sions were the work of sui cide bombers or bombs that were on timers but, accord ing the Associated Press re port, the bombing is thought to be the work of local mili tants and thirty people had been detained. The bomb ing also occurred during the heavy tourist season as well as aroimd two Egyptian events—Coptic Christian Easter and Shem al-Nes- sim, an ancient holiday that celebrates the first day of spring. This is the third ter rorist attack on a Sinai beach resort in less than two years. Egyptian interior minister Habib el-Adly said that the blasts were linked to attacks at other Sinai resorts in 2004 and 2005. Terrorism expert Steven Emerson said he be lieves that the terrorists’ goal is to destroy Egypt’s tour ism industry, which brought in $6.4 billion in 2005 and thereby undermine President Hosni MubaraTc. In another incident on Wednesday on the Gaza side of the border, also around 11:35 a.m., Palestinian mili tants unsuccessfully tried to crash a car filled with ex plosives into the main Is- rael-Gaza crossing. Pales tinian police opened fire on the car as it approached the Palestinian side of the Kami crossing. The militants re turned fire, wounding three officers and two civilians. Two militants were arrested and the himdreds of pounds of explosives were disman tled. The crossing was shut in response to the attempted attack, an occurrence that has happened several times this year. According to the Associ ated Press report, Israeli offi cial General Elkana Har Nof predicts the Sinai area that borders Israel “will contin ue to be a target for Islamic extremists. The coast com bines all the elements that are a target, especially for global jihad,” he said. A Special Note to Seniors With classes finally wind ing down, I know all of us are looking forward to the end of year traditions and for seniors, gradiwtion! How ever, please keep in mind that we all are still subject to the Honor Code, and poor choices and resortation to ac ademic dishonesty so close to the end of the semester (such as plagiarism or cheat ing) can bring about severe consequences such as delay of graduation for those who will be finishing up their fi nal semester. So I urge you to please practice plagiarism prevention. The following is anony mous letter fi-om a student who had delay of graduation served to her as an Honor Council sanction. She didn’t have the chance to graduate with her fi-iends, all because of an impulsive decision that she had made. Throughout sixteen years of schooling, I was always taught that cheating was looking on someone else’s paper, allowing someone to get their answers fi’om me, and taking someone else’s words and calling them my own. I have, like everyone I know, been in tough academ ic situations when I wished I could just take the easy way out, throw caution into the wind, and join the many oth ers who seemed to have no inhibition when it came to discarding their academic integrity. However, I perse vered and my conscious al ways thanked me for it later. Until very recently I had maintained this very integ rity I worked so many years to simply call my own, but I failed. I actually allowed myself to succumb to the temptation of taking a short cut, and the sad part is that I didn’t even realize what I had done until I had already done it. I ignored my gut feeling, which wrenched and whispered to me not to go through with the seemingly harmless task. I disregarded my conscious telling me that there still was room left for my integrity and chose to listen to my mind that was abundantly satisfied with my ignorance. I continued to replace the pleading voice of my intuition with the sat isfaction of checking off an assignment fi-om my to-do list. I forgot, in the midst of my hectic schedule, stress, and desire to get assignments out of the way, that academ ic dishonesty is not limited to bubble sheets, fill-in-the- blanks, and stealing some one else’s words. Academic dishonesty was the result of ignoring my intuition in order to achieve short-term gratification. I have had to lie, by omis sion, to most of my fi-iends about the situation. It has been too embarrassing to ad mit to them that I could be so thoughtless and disrespectfijl not only of my professor but also of my classmates and most of all myself 1 have had to admit my mistake to my parents, who have been understanding and support ive, but whose silence con tains so much disappoint ment that it hurts to look them in the eyes and know what they must really be thinking. I have had to talk about what I did so many times to people I don’t re call even seeing before that my heart continues to sink with weights of guilt. I cer tainly never thought I would be a proud senior, sitting in firont of the Honor Council and crying before freshmen, sophomores, juniors, se niors, and faculty members about a situation that at one point seemed justifiable and now was just unbearably distressing. I am a resilient person who produces the best work in dif ficult situations, who kicks into gear when everyone else is wilting in the heat of their demands. I have been a person who listens to my in tuition and always does the right thing, but just this once I folded under the pressure. I will not be graduating with my class after all these years of hard work because of one decision I made one hour of one day in my life. Instead, I will be watching my friends walk together, turning to a new page in their lives. Meanwhile, I will be tempo rarily one page behind, re membering that dishonesty reaches beyond words and into the very core of who I have become. Exhibition: Juried Senior Student Exhibition Dates: April 23 through May 28, 2006 opening Reception: Satm-day April 23, 2-4pm Location: Frankie G. Weems Gallery, Gaddy-Hamrick Building, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 9-5pm and Saturday through Simday 2-5pm. The Frankie G. Weems Gallery is pleased to present the 2006 Juried Senior Student Exhibition, a show of work by Meredith College Art Department’s graduating Seniors. Each piece of artwork has been hand selected by the faculty, representing each artist’s style accordingly. This show features works incorporating photgraphy, fi bers, printmaking, graphic design, and other media choices, rhe artist’s majors include Art Education, Graphic Design, and Studio Art. Graphic Designers include Jenna Austin, Robyn Lewis-Gallick, Jennifer Mckenzie, Sarah Richards, Rebecca Rosal, Kaitlin Wilson-Bryant. Stephanie Allen, Chris-Anne Felzine, Kalena Gonzalez Seriior, Maria Lapira, Rachel Souza and Shannon Walker are Studio Artist while Jeanette Grey is an Art Education Major. Each student shines ftirough their art in this show. For more information, please contact Ann Roth at (919)760- S239 or gallerv@meredith.edu. The Meredith Nutrition and Wellness Association is seeking potential members for the fall semester. If you are a nutrition student, or just want to have some fun while learning more about nutrition, we want you! Our first event will be America’s Walk for Diabetes in September. For more information on the organization, or the diabetes walk, contact Sheri Cotmor Celebrate the last day of classes and eat wan-cakes! Tomorrow night from 10pm to 12am in Barefoot’s 1st floor kitchen, we will have pancakes, waffles, and bacon. Pancakes and waffles will be $1 each, and Ae bacon will cost .25 a slice. Juice and milk as well! Eat, enjoy games and a movie in the parlor!
