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Reports that University of Ottawa business professor Jimming Lin was found guilty of plagiarizing a graduate student's paper. The university found liable; Amount of compensation to be paid to the student.

The article reports that term papers submitted by students at the University of Toronto and York University in Ontario have been withheld pending the completion of a police investigation into the operation of commercial essay writing companies in Toronto. University officials have been comparing student rosters with a list of customers that was seized by the police from the Custom Essay Service.

Provides international news briefs on colleges and universities as of February 8, 2002. Accusations of the leaders of School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa that the country's leading media conglomerate is practicing censorship; Plan of the governments of Newfoundland and Canada to quintuple the number of foreign college students in Newfoundland and Labrador; Fines given by a Tokyo court on Waseda University.

Provides news on some universities around the world as of November 17, 2000. Challenge posed by British Broadcasting Corp. to the Open University in Great Britain; Affirmative action issue among Swedish state universities; Goal of Robert Birgeneau, president of the University of Toronto in Canada, for a fund raising campaign.