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Reports on the filing of a lawsuit against term-paper company Research Assistance by the State Attorney General's office and the California State University System for allegedly selling its research papers to college students.

The article discusses the use of the Internet by college students for academic purposes. While almost all college students use the Internet on a regular basis, very few distinguish between peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, and any random Internet page. This can cause problems when students use improper sources for their academic research, which has a side effect of lowering the quality of papers as a whole. Accrediting agencies are now considering information-literacy programs as measures of an institution's performance to encourage education in the use of academic resources.

The article reports on corruption practices occurring in many domestic and foreign educational systems. Ethics violations are recorded in admissions, examinations, paper writing, plagiarism and pervasive fraudulent behaviors. The Internet is providing another venue for misrepresentations in education. Some research proves that the number of illegitimate universities offered on the Internet have increased four times since 2004. Also, some higher education institutions that use informatics report reduced examination fraud.

Presents information on a research paper that emerged from Project Steve of the National Center for Science Education regarding scientists named Steve in the U.S. in 2004. Views of Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the center, on the research; Reason for choosing the name for the research; Use of Project Steve T-shirts in the research.