™ — CHRISTMAS .esseneecesnneeeseess4&5 INSIDE LOOK ROAD | re, Biology instructor writes about his travels ALL CANADIAN......0cccctccccttceeteeees Soccer player chosen for forward position ; With Christmas just a month away, more people are think- tie ing of creative alternatives to the popular holiday Bottled water best in test Environmental studies class asked students to sample several different sources of campus water By RUMAN KANG in and the winner with 40 per cent of votes is bottled water. The blind taste-test conducted by an environmental studies 2100 class com- pared three types of water available on campus: bottled, filtered and tap. Bottled water fared the best earning 70 votes from the 173 participants. The students began their research as a project for their problem and solu- tions environmental studies class. The students tested the water sam- ples for CO2, alkalinity, hardness and E. coli content. While the results between the test samples varied in CO2, alkalinity and hardness, each came back with zero E.- coli content. “The only issue of health concern would have been the E. coli testing and none of the water tested positive for E. coli which was good,” said Andrew Mosi, chemistry department chair. According to Mosi, alkalinity and hardness measure the amount of min- eral content in water. The class conducted the research in the hopes of raising awareness about the environmental and health impacts of bottled water. “T think mostly it’s just about raising awareness with people about buying bottled water versus getting a readily available resource around campus like filtered water,” said Arthur Li, environ- mental science student. “We wanted to let people know the options are out there, even for myself I didn’t know that there were filtered water stations around the campus until we started this research,” Li said. The environmental impact of water bottles is significant. “The water bottling industry has huge environmental impacts,” said Ka- trina Erdos, environmental studies in- structor. “There have been a lot of studies that show that on average at the most only 50 per cent of water bottles get re- cycled,” said Erdos. “A lot of bottled water gets trans- ported long distances so there is huge fuel consumption, air pollution and greenhouse gases associated with that.” ) T: results of a water taste test are zr POLICE MAKE ARREST OUTSIDE LANGARA WEDNESDA DEREK BEDRY photos Police arrested a man fleeing the scene of a break- and-enter near Langara yesterday. Eyewitnesses saw at least seven police vehicles on scene, includ- ing a helicopter. Police officers confirmed they were after two men they say broke into a house close to 49" Avenue. They took down one of the suspects near the Langara property line at Ontario Street af- ter a short chase from the scene of the crime. The suspect was overheard telling police he was from Haida Gwaii. Langara head of security Mel Fear- man said he was aware of the incident and had sent a security officer to attend. The man was seen ear- lier in the college bookstore. College reacts to grade F paper Langara aware of paper writing scams, but more concerned about teaching students academic honesty By SHAWN GILL | e would rather teach integri- W: than police dishonesty,” said John Belshaw, dean of social sciences and management, in an email to The Voice. Langara appointed Belshaw to re- spond to inquiries by The Voice regard- ing the college’s reaction to last week’s front-page story exposing the plagia- rism enabling services offered by Van- couver-based Acemytermpaper. Acemytermpaper charges $25 to $30 per page to write and research stu- dent’s essays for them. The Voice pur- chased a fully researched paper from Acemytermpaper, whose advertise- ments were found posted on campus bulletin boards. The paper was submit- ted for grading to Stephen Phillips, a Langara political science instructor, who gave it an F. “Frankly, we’re not overly worked up about a business that produces F-quali- ty papers and is run by someone who thinks ‘analyzation’ is real word,” said Belshaw. Belshaw was referring to the sales pitch Acemytermpaper president Wil- son KP Lee gave The Voice by phone at the time of purchase in which he stat- ed: “We do the research, the writing, the analyzation, the editing. We can get it to you by tomorrow.” Belshaw said the college has known about services like Acemytermpaper for many years and has dealt with them by “regularly [familiarizing] stu- dents with the Academic Conduct Poli- cy and the importance of honesty and integrity in the academic world.” Though the college would rather em- phasize academic honesty than punish cheating, “the penalties for cheating, lying, fabrication, and fraud will be ap- plied [when] necessary,” said Belshaw. The Academic Conduct Policy, which is handed out to students at the begin- ning of term and posted online, defines academic dishonesty. It sets out the process by which a student who is al- leged to have committed plagiarism is investigated, the appeal process and the penalties for a student who is found guilty, including suspension and expul- sion. As well as researching and writing student’s papers for them, Acemyterm See PAPER SERVICE, page 3