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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.

The article reports on the use of recycled paper in the general catalog for the University of California at Irvine. The catalog boasts a simple design and a corrugated paper cover. As a result, according to university officials, 200 trees as well as 15% of the usual cost to taxpayers have been saved.

The article reports that Harvard University has suspended one student and expelled another after both were discovered to have submitted identical term papers on British history in 1971. The term papers were allegedly purchased by the two students from a firm that sells and buys term papers in Massachusetts.

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 reports on the obscenities found in the publications of students which led to censorship threats in the U.S. The main opponents of censorship is the College Press Service (CPS), which has about 300 subscribers. Originally, CPS articles concerned on meetings of groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society. Now, the paper releases stories about censorship which include censored words. Other obscene papers also include "The Daily Cardinal."

An excerpt from the papers presented at a conference on legal aspects of student-institutional relationship by William M. Beaney and Robert B. McKay is presented.

The article provides a series of news briefs concerning higher education. The article reports that the University of Wisconsin will delay issuing grades for students who purchased term papers from a company that sold term papers. The article reports that California Governor Ronald Reagan has decreased the 12.5 percent salary increase of University of California faculty members to 7.5 percent; the increase had been approved by the state legislature.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article related to term-paper scandals.

A letter to the article in response to a continuing debate over students' purchase of term papers and other items of research or creativity, which has taken place in previous issues of "The Chronicle of Higher Education."

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article concerning the sale of term papers in the May 24, 1971 issue.

The article reports developments in the student press in the U.S. An edition of the campus newspaper of Detroit's Wayne State University contained articles on sorority rushing and campus festival activities and campus festival activities. "The Paper," an off-campus newspaper edited by Michigan State University students and drop-outs, includes a comic strip entitled "Land-Grant Man." More than 100 named underground newspapers have sprung up across the country.

This article reports on the increasing number of student newspapers that are cutting all financial ties with their colleges and universities. A few newspapers have done so on their own accord, hoping to insure their editorial independence. However, most Ivy League papers have always been independent, receiving revenue from subscriptions, advertising, and newspaper sales. INSET: Study Finds Many Officials Growing Weary Of Problems.

The article reports on the pioneering project, "Courses by Newspapers," that offers lectures from distinguished scholars through the pages of about 200 daily and weekly newspapers. It begins its second year with a new course keyed to the American Bicentennial, "In Search of the American Dream," which offers 18 lectures.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that a state university cannot expel students for distributing offensive publications on campus. The decision reversed lower court rulings that had upheld the expulsion in 1969 of a University of Missouri for distributing an underground newspaper. Plaintiff Barbara Susan Papish should be reinstated in the graduate journalism program unless she is banned from reinstatement for valid academic reasons.

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.

The article reports that Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana is getting $160 per ton for used computer cards as high-quality trash. The income from used computer cards this year is estimated at $14,000. The university has sold more than 70 tons of used computer cards since July 1, 1973. It is similar to a bonus for the used-card market when a university uses around 66 million computer cards per year.

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.

This article discusses the "Courses by Newspaper" experiment. The experiment, launching in 1973, features a series of essays by prominent scholars, designed to appear in 250 newspapers across the United States. Readers of the essays can earn credit at over two hundred U.S. colleges and universities.

The article reports that policemen from Palo Alto, California searched the office of the student newspaper at Stanford University in search of photographs of demonstrators taken during a clash with police at the Stanford Medical Center. University president Richard W. Lyman called the search "a threat to full freedom of the press."

The article focuses on the student newspapers in eight campuses that have printed advertisements for abortion counselling and referral services. Some of the newspapers were ordered to stop the printing of the advertisements by the school administration. One of the newspapers ordered to stop printing was "The Concordian" of Concordia College in Minnesota. However, some student newspapers continued to print the advertisement.

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 on the decision of the federal district judge related to the banning of school publications in Boston, Massachusetts. The jurist ended the conflict between the student writers, school directors and board members by declaring freedom of speech among campus newspaper writers. The pronouncement has given the students their right to express their sentiments and opinions to the school administrators.

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 reports on the ruling of a federal appeals court in Virginia that a state university cannot cut off funds from a student newspaper because of the militant racial stand of the publication. North Carolina Central University chancellor Albert N. Whiting had earlier decided to withdraw university support from the student newspaper called "The Campus Echo," a move overturned by the ruling.

The article reports that the board of regents of the University of Florida has asked university president Stephen O'Connell to cancel his appointment of a university employee as editor-publisher of the student newspaper and yearbook. O'Connell's decision to replace the student editor with the university employee arose in 1971 after the newspaper illegally published advertisement for abortion referral agencies.

The article reports that student editors of different universities in the U.S. are working together to fight the attempts of college administrators and governing boards to increase their control over student publications. According to Nellie Jo Lee, a staff member of the U.S. Student Press Association, campus papers in the state are uniting when one paper is threatened. She added that one example of this is displayed by five papers in Massachusetts where they got together to support "Cycle."

The article provides an overview of trends in higher education in the U.S. for the next decade after 1969, based on the text of a paper by Ralph W. Tyler, director emeritus of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Tyler wrote a paper on "The Changing Structure of American Institutions of Higher Education," prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He cites indications of the increasing significance of the community and junior college in the future.

The article reports on a paper on universities by Calvin B.T. Lee, assistant director of the United States Office of Education's college support division. Lee asserted that universities are overextending themselves by trying to achieve so many goals in their efforts to obtain grants. In the process, they are losing their focus and their main goal, which is student development. Lee will present his paper at the 50th annual meeting of the American Council on Education.

The article reports on key controversies pertaining to the financial status of private universities in the United States citing a slowdown in the increase in compensation levels for their faculty members, according to a paper released by Committee Z of the American Association of University Professors. The paper was based on a self-grading survey of 936 institutions which showed the lowest rate of percentage increase of 12.1 percent in the average compensation for full professors, compared to other universities and liberal arts colleges.

The article discusses the use of television in education in the United States. Some large universities began to televise undergraduate courses in 1950's for students who could not be fitted into the classroom. Now, even on campuses, students have video taping equipment and they submit "video term papers" in place of the written ones. INSET: TV Equipment: Relatively Cheap and Not Hard to Understand.

The article focuses on a meeting of scholars to address issues in the preparation of the papers of important black Americans for publication. The quantity of the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were a challenge to the editors. They were evaluated for their contribution to black American history.

The article comments on the use of term papers in education. The term paper is a fairly questionable exercise. At the root of its universal use is a belief in research as the center for all education. Wrestling with ideas, finding sources, getting evidence, putting it all down with power and grace and a sense of pride in discovery can be a vital way of learning.

The article reports on mass higher education as a threat to academic standards. In a speech by U. S. Vice-President Spiro Theodore Agnew, he criticized open admission policies and urged colleges not to lower their standards. Fritz Machlup, professor of Princeton University gave his views on this issue in a paper at a recent conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. Excerpts on Machlup's paper are presented in the article.

The article reports on the ruling of a state attorney general that colleges in Oklahoma have no right to ban underground school papers due to disagreement on articles. This ruling was made to the case of "Dialogue," an underground paper of Central State College, which criticized college president Garland Godfrey. According to the ruling, the newspapers were under the protection of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Also, a judge dismissed six students from felony charges.

The article discusses the "Exponent," the new name of the student paper at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama. It has typical issue about the military-industrial complex, the plight of American Indian children, and war toys. There are also many campuses that have changed the formats of their paper. On theses campuses, student editors, adopted a magazine style format, added news about off-campus events and issues, and their political tome generally has shifted to the left.

The article presents a list of recently published academic papers and reports. Papers on the list include the American College Public Relations Association's annual report for 1972, "Development and Experiment in College Teaching," published by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and "Strategies for Improving College Teaching," by John A. Centra.

The article reports on a pamphlet by the Academy of Education Development entitled "Higher Education with Fewer Teachers." The paper's timing is strange, as most disciplines are seeing a surplus of teachers. Though the paper's producers deny an agenda, the contents of the paper suggests that they favor higher student to teacher ratios.

The article reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals has avoided the issue of whether a scholar can refuse confidential information from research to a grand jury. Samuel Popkin was questioned about the leaking of the "Pentagon Papers;" he pleaded First Amendment protection of freedom of press. The court decided that freedom of press did not apply to non-sources and asked Popkin to answer some questions but not others.

The article reports on the hearing of a lawsuit filed against Samuel L. Popkin, faculty member of a Harvard University, for his denial to reveal relevant information required by the grand jury investigating the public release of the Pentagon papers. He refused to provide information he obtained during the course of his scholarly studies. He along with two other professors claimed that scholars should be allowed, under law, to protect confidential information from public disclosure.

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.

The article reports that the publication of the Pentagon Papers has ignited a renewed interest among scholars in the question of access to government documents in the United States. This was one of the major issues of debate at an annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Daniel Ellsberg, who is under indictment for releasing the secret government history of U.S. participation in Vietnam to the press, appeared at one session.

The article presents a paper by Marvin Rintala of Boston College and John Dreijmanis at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in the U.S. which shows that labor market for political scientists had been virtually untouched by scholarly inquiry. It points out that recruitment of faculty is still on a highly personal basis.

The article reports on the plans of student editors and members of the United States Student Press Association to encourage campus papers to free themselves financially and editorially from college and university administrations. The organization has also made proposals for their Collegiate Press Service to enlarge its staff and become more aggressive in news gathering.

The article reports on the criticisms made against federal financial social research in the United States based on a paper released by Representative Henry S. Reuss, chairman of the Subcommittee on Research and Technical Programs which conducted the study. The study claimed that too much of the federally sponsored research has been done separate from issues actually confronting the citizen and society. Most of the research have been deemed trivial, irrelevant, usable and valuable but not used.

The article reports on the feelings of resentment, doubt and frustration by junior college teachers in the United States based on the paper "Junior College Faculty: Issues and Problems," conducted by Roger H. Garrison former vice president of Briarcliff College in New York. Key proposals to resolve such issues include the creation of a national job clearinghouse to match positions and applications and a dialogue among junior college faculty members.

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.