Search

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 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 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 at least four businesses in Boston, Massachusetts have been organized to provide college students with term papers. The companies cover almost any subject in practically any language and sell term papers at $2 a page. However, some local colleges and universities are distressed about the possibility of mass-produced plagiarism.

The article reports on the plan of students at North Dakota State University and Minnesota-based institutions Moorhead State College and Concordia College to have a single newspaper for the three campuses, called "The Paper." The newspaper will be supported by subscriptions and advertising at first. The organizers may also ask for student-government funds. The paper would not be an underground or radical publication.

The article focuses on the use of portable electronic calculators by college students. The tested and accepted slide-rule is being replaced by the calculator. In some colleges, pocket calculators are even provided to the students. New disciplines that employ calculation, other than math, science, engineering, and business, have been introduced. The costs of the calculator is also decreasing. Some professors and students staunchly oppose the usage of calculators despite its popularity.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article related to university's decision not to take action against students in the March 25, 1974 issue.

The article reports that students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina have voted to continue using student fees to support the campus newspaper "Daily Tar Heel." The newspaper was accused of printing obscenities, left-wing editorials, and one-sided reporting. Meanwhile, the administration of Boston College, Massachusetts announced it would cease to function as publisher of the student newspaper "The Heights," which it accused of publishing offensive material.

The article reports that the editorial advantages, financial problems and legal pitfalls of student newspapers' independence from college and university administrations were major topics discussed at the seventh national congress of the U.S. Student Press Association held in Valparaiso, Indiana. Association executive director Robert Johnston said that student have as much to say and as much right to say it the way see it, as anybody on campus.

The article is the third part in a series of papers about drug policy of universities and colleges in the U.S. Most college officials are now steering away from the hard-line approach for dealing with drug use. This is because it is difficult to search a student's room or property and drug arrests bring bad publicity to a campus.

This article looks at news from a variety of college campuses throughout the United States. The article discusses a court case in which a judge agreed to a request by Boston University for a preliminary injunction to keep several Boston, Massachusetts-area companies from selling term papers to college students.

The article reports on the introduction of student portfolios at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. Student portfolios are introduced as a replacement for traditional letter grades. The portfolios include examples of a student's academic work along with evaluations by faculty. Contents of the portfolio will include research papers, tests, critiques of artistic performances, and record of extracurricular activities.

The article reports that New York State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz has begun court action to dissolve the company, Termpapers Inc., which produces research papers for sale to college students. Lefkowitz asserted that the company's conduct violated the public policy of the state that seeks to maintain the integrity of the educational process.

The article reports on the paper "The Case for the Three-Hour Class," presented by Hollis Farnum, director of advisory services at the University of Rhode Island, at the 1967 National Seminar on Adult Education Research at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Farnum argued that college students learn more in one three-hour class a week than in three one-hour classes a week.

The article presents U.S. higher education news briefs. After continued student boycotts Emmett W. Bashful, the vice-president of Southern University in New Orleans, Louisiana declared his resignation. The article discusses the term-paper company Academic Market Place and the death of a Xavier University freshman.