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• No reservation for any facility is complete until you receive a confirmation (Methodist University Event Memo)notice by e-mail. Until you have received a confirmation, your location is not approved. Please follow upwith the Events Coordinator (x7062) if you have not received a confirmation within two business days.• Reservations for classroom space will be made for the current semester only in order to ensure thatadequate space is confirmed for the upcoming semester’s classes. If you do not have a MethodistUniversity Event Memo confirmation your classroom reservation has not been confirmed.• If setup is needed, the person making the reservation is required to contact Maintenance at the timeof the receipt of confirmation to make arrangements.• The person making the reservation is also required to call the Events Coordinator (x7062) andMaintenance (x7199) if the meeting or the event is changed or cancelled.• The person making the reservation is required to contact Sodexho directly for any meals or refreshmentsthat are needed. Sodexho will bill each group individually for their food requests.• Students will not be charged a facility fee for an internal group unless setup and/or teardown for theevent require that the Maintenance staff works overtime.• If setup/takedown requires the Maintenance staff to work beyond normal business hours, the groupwill be charged $12.00 per hour, per person needed.• An additional fee will be charged (at the designated rate) to internal groups that require specialarrangements such as additional security and the tarp and/or the carpet to be put down in the RiddleCenter or the Nimocks Center.• Questions concerning reserving campus facilities should be directed to the University EventsCoordinator at (910) 630-6072 or Universityevents@methodist.edu.CULTURAL EVENTSDates and times are listed on Methodist University’s website,http://www.methodist.edu/Pub_Media/public_events.shtml. Students are encouraged to attend theseevents. Some events have a fee, while other events are free of charge to the students. For moreinformation, contact the Office of University Relations and Events at (910) 630-7043.Appendix ACode of Ethics - As members of the journalism community, the staff members of Carillon and smallTALKshall conform to journalistic ethics and to good practices of that profession. This includes the following:1. Plagiarism – Plagiarism is prohibited and illegal. Defined by the ACP, plagiarism is the word-for-wordduplication of another person’s writing and shall be limited to passages that contain distinctivelypersonal thoughts, uniquely stylized phraseology or exclusive facts. A comparable prohibition appliesto the use of graphics. Information obtained from a published work must be independently verifiedbefore it can be reported as a new, original story. This policy also forbids lifting verbatim paragraphsfrom a wire service without attribution or pointing out that wire stories were used in compiling thestory. Material that is published online, on the Internet, should be treated in the same way as if itwere published in more traditional broadcast media.Defined by Methodist University, plagiarism is presenting another person’s words or ideas as if theywere your own. By not acknowledging a source, the writer misleads readers into thinking that thematerial he/she is presenting is his/her own when, in fact, it is the result of someone else’s time andeffort. In general, acknowledge all direct quotations, opinions, judgments, and insights of others thatare summarized or paraphrased. You must also acknowledge information that is not well known, isopen to dispute, or is not commonly accepted. Finally, document tables, graphs, charts, cartoons,and statistics taken from a source.2. Copyright Infringement - In terms of the law, if the plagiarized work is then published in thenewspaper it is called copyright infringement.3. Libel - Libelous statements are provably false and unprivileged statements that do demonstrableinjury to an individual’s or business’ reputation in the community. If the allegedly libeled party is a“public figure” or “public official,” the accused must show that the false statement was published “withactual malice,” i.e., the student journalist knew that the statement was false or that it was publishedwith reckless disregard for the truth – without trying to verify the truthfulness of the statement.96