CHECKING OUT THE BIRDS we scceceuceneeceuceneeneuceneeneunennuncd Langara professional photo-imaging students head to the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Delta. A meeting with the dragons A Langara instructor takes his latest idea to the CBC’s Dragons’ Den By RENEE SUTTON appeared on CBC’s Dragons’ Den to pitch his invention: coffee that helps you fall asleep. Jessop, an instructor at Langara’s school of management, recently had a chance to prove his entrepreneurial chops outside the classroom. He ap- peared on Dragons’ Den, a television show where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of business tycoons in the hopes of securing financing. Jessop presented the pan- el with Counting Sheep Coffee. Counting Sheep Coffee, a coffee meant to help you sleep, was launched in 2018. Jessop said his wife’s caffeine sen- Lives: instructor Deland Jessop DELAND JESSOP sitivity was part of Instructor and the inspiration to entrepreneur turn his house into a lab for a year. “T was mixing with chamomile, with lavender. My wife was the guinea pig,” Jessop said. “T was kind of like the mad scientist.” Valerian root, a natural sedative, is blended with decaffeinated coffee to create a coffee to help people wind down. Jessop said people like the taste. “We've been doing demos all over the country and people love it,” Jessop said. Stephanie Koonar, assistant chair- woman to the school of management, said Jessop’s students benefit by learn- ing from an expert in the field of entre- preneurism. “Deland has really been able to use his expertise and his product to en- hance the curriculum,” she said. An advertising class was even able to develop an ad campaign for Counting Sheep Coffee. Andrew Kocicka, a student in Jes- sop’s business presentation course, said there are things that a student just can’t learn from a textbook when it comes to being an entrepreneur. “Tt’s inspiring and beneficial because he’s been there, done that,” Kocicka said about Jessop. Counting Sheep Coffee can be seen under the scrutiny of the dragons by logging onto the CBC’s website to watch the March 19 episode of the Dragons’ Den. &, ue fi CCAA submitted photo Jitinder Lohcham of the Falcons enjoys a victory ride following a triumphant victory on March 15 at Squamish’s Quest University. Cheating stats to be compiled Following the release of a CBC survey on cheating, Langara decides it’s time to crunch the numbers By MADELYN FORSYTH piled at Langara following a CBC study that showed students might be getting away with cheating in post- secondary institutions. The CBC survey asked multiple questions about whether students had cheated in high school, as an under- grad or if they had helped someone cheat on a test. Forty-two Canadian post-secondary institutions were involved in the study, including SFU and UBC. The survey found that SFU disciplined more stu- dents for cheating than UBC does, even though they have a lower student popu- lation. The survey shows that more than 7,000 students were disciplined for academic cheating in 2011-12, a finding Cie: statistics are being com- experts say falls short of the number of students who actually cheat. Melia Goertzen, administrative coor- dinator at Langara, plans to compile her own statistics regarding cheating at Langara. The process could take time, she said. “About 90 to 95 per cent of cases are first offences within a regular class. This suggests that most people who get caught cheating don’t do it again,” said Goertzen in an email. Langara student Simran Virk doesn’t Know anyone in college that has cheated but says that in high school many students cheated to get ahead. Virk says many of her high school classmates are now at UBC or McGill University even though they cheated. “Youre not really being judged on what you know, it’s how well you can cheat,” Virk said. The Langara Code of Conduct de- scribes cheating as “an act of deceit, distortion of the truth, or improper use of another person’s effort to ob- tain an academic advantage.” If a teacher thinks a student has cheated, they have the right to con- duct an investigation of that student. Students can also appeal the teacher’s decision if they believe it to be unjust. Penalties at Langara for cheating range from a warning to expulsion. Goertzen said that when students have been caught plagiarizing or cheating, “part of the process is to ed- ucate them about their responsibili- ties as a student.” “In my experience, students may not even know that their behaviour is considered as plagiarism.” 66 Inmy experience, students may not even know that their behaviour is considered as plagiarism Melia Goertzen