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The article discusses the order of University of Texas president B. H. Amstead to shred 1,300 copies of the campus newspaper "The Windmill". This is because the newspaper printed a letter that criticizes the board of regents of the university. The paper's editor, Joel Asbury, was fired.

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 reports on the regulations issued by the U.S. Veterans Administration that would restrict the operation of external degree program offered by Northwest Missouri State University and Elba Systems Corp. The program involves a combination of home-study lessons, once-a-month workshops in hotel rooms in various cities and a couple of term papers.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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 informs that the Attorney General's office of New York State has warned colleges of legal actions that will be taken against colleges which fail to crack down on students buying term papers. The warning to college administrators and student leaders has been issued by Attorney General of New York Louis J. Lefkowitz.

The article reports that two scholars have denied the charges that they had set any precedents for U.S. President Richard Nixon's $576,000 tax deduction for giving his Vice-Presidential papers to the National Archives. Later the White Houses reported that it had been misinformed about tax deductions of Jerome H. Wiesner, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts (MIT), and Nixon apologized his mention of MIT president.

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 discusses the positive reactions to a paper that presented recommendations aiming to develop better methods in higher education teaching. The task force that presented the recommendations, headed by Stanford University's Frank Newman, suggested creating different types of postsecondary training and aiding students directly. The proposal, submitted to the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is expected to cause controversy and debate in academic circles.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the letter "Grades, not term papers, are the villains," by Richard D. Erlich in the September 24, 1972 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.

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."

The article reports on the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare's plan to continue withholding funds for social programs. According to department papers made public by the UPI news service, only enough money to maintain staff will be granted for the programs until Congress and the President agree on the budget for fiscal 1974.

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 need for colleges and universities to increase tuition and improve management, based on a paper on financing higher education prepared by two partners of an accounting firm in New York. Authors, Philip J. Taylor and Granville K. Thompson say that the percentage of revenues received by colleges and universities from gifts and contributions has been declining since 1960.

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 presents a list of recently published books which are of interest to college teachers and administrators in the United States. These include "Academic Quicksand: Some Trends and Issues in Higher Education," by Gene A. Budig and Stanley G. Rives, "Educational Judgments: Papers in the Philosophy of Education," edited by James F. Doyle, and "Universities for All," by George Z. F. Bereday.

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 U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of Samuel L. Popkin, an assistant professor of government at Harvard University. Popkin was imprisoned last year for refusing to respond to a federal grand jury's questions about his sources of information on the Pentagon Papers. Therefore, the U.S. Court of Appeals' ruling under which Popkin was incarcerated remains in effect.

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 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 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.

This article presents a list of recently published books and papers. These include "The Academic Department or Division Chairman: A Complex Role," edited by James Brann and Thomas A. Emmet, "The Campus and the City: Maximizing Assets and Reducing Liabilities," by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and "The Contributions of Business Management to Higher Education Management," by the Academy for Educational Development.

The article presents an essay in which the author acknowledges that he has suffered through the liberalizing changes to higher education in silence but can no longer tolerate incorrect spelling. A students' comically misspelled paper on the "Odyssey" drove the author to stand up for the importance of spelling.

The article discusses the release of Vietnam scholar Samuel L. Popkin, who was sentenced to eighteen months in jail for refusing to comply with federal grand jury inquiries over the Pentagon Papers. He only served about one week of his sentence. The case represents the sensitivity of academic research into government activities.

The article presents educational news briefs. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to delay a judgment against Harvard University assistant political science professor Samuel L. Popkin for refusing to answer questions about the release of the Pentagon Papers. The article discusses the investigation into allegations that the U.S. Office of Education was subject to political influence in making contracts and grants for education projects.

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.

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.

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.

This article provides news briefs related to U.S. colleges and universities. Hanover College has dropped charges that a New York investment banking firm mismanaged its endowment fund. Boston University and the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston have filed separate suits seeking to stop the sale of term papers to students in the area. A 6.5% decline in enrollment at Mankato State College may force the college to eliminate about 70 faculty and administrative positions over the next two years.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 that several fires, including one that destroyed a rare book collection, were set in one night at the University of Michigan. According to the student newspaper, "The Michigan Daily," an unidentified man called the paper the same night of the fires and claimed that the disasters will continue until a certain Angela Davis is freed.

The article presents news concerning higher education in the United States. The University of Pittsburgh has joined other schools in using recycled paper in publications and press releases. Leland L. Medsker has resigned as director of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley.

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 comments on the paper "Evaluating College Professors by Scientific Methods," by Evelyn Kossoff in the "American Scholar" journal. The author points out that Kossoff has demonstrated that with regards to evaluating teaching, scholars often ignore evidence, research and examined experience and prefer preconceptions, misinformation and single examples.

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 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 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.