Search

The article presents the text of the higher education section of a task force report submitted to U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 14, 1964. The report covers student assistance, graduate and professional education, college development, national training fellows. This section of the report formed the basis for the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The author relates her experiences when she pretended to purchase a term paper from Termpapers Inc. in Washington, D.C. A page cost $1.90 for papers already in the files and $3.85 for written-to-order jobs. She was asked about special instructions. The order form also offered a choice among term-paper format, graduate level, master thesis format or doctorate format. She got the paper after a week. The literature professor graded the paper with a B minus.

The article reports on the obscenities of college papers in the U.S. As reported, there were more than 10 attempts to censor suspected obscenities in school publications. One of the prime adversaries of censorship in campus newspapers is the College Press Service (CPS) which has roughly 300 campus subscribers. According to Susie Schmidt, CPS editor, that the service has no exact numbers of college papers which uses the uncut versions.

The article reports that no disciplinary action has been taken by five of the eight major universities in the Boston area, Massachusetts against students whose names were found on the customer lists of companies that were selling term papers. These institutions include Boston College, Harvard University, Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts.

The article reports on U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson's release of higher education papers prepared by a higher education task force headed by John W. Gardner. The report proposes federal scholarships for needy students, expansions of a federal work-study program, establishment of a federally guaranteed student loans and a national humanities foundation.

The article reports on the official publication of the first volume of the papers of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The Marshall papers were sponsored by the National Historical Publications Commission, the Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary, and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The article discusses the Massachusetts legislature's decision to pass a law that would prohibit the sale of term papers and fraudulent test takers. Anyone caught selling papers or posing as a student during an examination will be fined up to $100 or face up to six months in jail.

The author reflects on writing the paper. He expressed his feeling of stupidity and foolishness to write the paper because he thought that no one will read it. He pondered on the firing at the Kent State and on the Jackson State. He also presented some of his recommendations to prevent another firing incident in any schools.

The article highlights the initiatives of university administrators and faculty members in the United States against term-paper companies for alleged academic corruption. State legislatures have forced term-paper companies either to shut down or to change their practices. Some term-paper companies remained open and have altered their sales pitches and services.

The article reports that courts and state legislatures in the United States are challenging companies that prepare term papers for sale to students. In the lower house of the legislature in California, a bill prohibiting the sale of term papers to students was defeated. Opponents of the bill argued that the sale of term papers infringed on academic freedom.